Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the management is frequently entirely separate at World Championships and it would be little less appropriate to link a slalom World Championships to a canoe sailing World Championships , say . |
| 2 | ‘ It wo n't be easy , ‘ he said grimly , and I was suddenly rather glad to have the taciturn Chatterton aboard . |
| 3 | Yet it is very much less easy to defend the policy of expecting parents to buy their children 's books . |
| 4 | Here , it proved much less easy to bulldoze the problem aside . |
| 5 | When there is a different purse and a different bureaucratic structure , it is much less easy to have the sort of fruitful relationship that exists between , for example , St. Kentigern 's school at Blackburn and the Oatridge agricultural college . |
| 6 | Compared with the other great all-rounders of his time , Imran Khan , Richard Hadlee and Kapil Dev , he is certainly the best batsman and best slip fielder , but Hadlee and Imran are more dangerous bowlers , and much less likely to have a bad day . |
| 7 | Males are much more likely to have a monosyllabic first name ( Jim , Fred , John ) , and much less likely to have a name of three or more syllables ( Christopher , Nicholas ) . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , ex-care women were much less likely to experience the protective effect of a non-deviant supportive spouse , firstly because they were more likely than comparison women to marry men with problems , and secondly because they were much more likely to be without any kind of spouse . |
| 9 | However , independent agents were much less likely to plug the three main tour-operators . |
| 10 | However , independent agents were much less likely to plug the three main tour-operators . |
| 11 | Take any one of these four ingredients away and you will be much less likely to find a close corporatist tie up between particular interests and the state in pursuit of increased state intervention . |
| 12 | A currency which gradually adjusts up or down over a period of time , depending on the intrinsic strength of the economy which supports it , is much less likely to attract the eye of the speculator than one which is about to burst the artificial dam which has been built around it . |
| 13 | Subsequently , they were much less likely to avoid the saccharin solution than rats which had been given water instead of vinegar ( Revusky , 1971 ) . |
| 14 | It 's so much easier to leave a child in the hands of a babysitter if you know that he or she will go to bed without fuss . |
| 15 | It is so much easier to prescribe a pill than to change the social conditions that may be responsible for the severity of the symptoms . |
| 16 | It is then so much easier to remove the rabbit since the possibility of further tangling is virtually eliminated . |
| 17 | Amongst Mirror readers , there was no difference between Labour and Conservative identifiers in their perception of the Mirror 's anti-Conservative bias , though Conservative Mirror readers were somewhat less likely to detect a pro-Labour bias . |
| 18 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
| 19 | I would hope that the hon. Gentleman would agree that many people of all political persuasions in Lanarkshire are working together extremely hard to build a better and more prosperous future for the area . |
| 20 | All these people now regard themselves as having a moral claim to land inside Israel — which is one reason , of course , why the PLO was for so long loath to consider a Palestinian nation outside the boundaries of the Jewish state . |
| 21 | It is obviously much harder to establish an indication of the eventual size and temperament of a cross-bred ( mongrel ) dog , compared with a pedigree ( pure-bred ) animal , and so you will need to try to discover the parentage of a puppy of this type . |
| 22 | The ‘ modal ’ fruit in both tropical and temperate regions is a 7–9 mm black or red berry , but as there is a greater gape range in tropical birds , it is perhaps not surprising to find a wider range of fruit and seed size there . |
| 23 | You conduct most of the important interviews and interrogations yourself and afterwards you dictate very sketchy accounts which are only just adequate to keep the files up to date . ’ |
| 24 | It is perhaps more appropriate to regard the personal/subjective and objective forms of discourse merely as different forms of textual practice : putting " voice " into text is just a stylistic convention . |
| 25 | Thus , in the context of consensual sexual activity with a girl under the age of 16 , it states : ‘ Most of us think that acts such as oral sex are extremely serious ( perhaps more likely to disturb a young girl meeting them for the first time than sexual intercourse ) . ’ |
| 26 | Nida similarly explains that ‘ in some Nilotic languages the passive forms of verbs are so preferred that instead of saying ‘ he went to town ’ , it is much more normal to employ an expression such as ‘ the town was gone to by him ’ . |
| 27 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 28 | If this is the case it might be much more effective to scrap the mailing and to talk personally to the journalists concerned . |
| 29 | Since the 1978 UN Conference on Health at Alma Ata it has become a universal wisdom that it is much more effective to build a primary health care network than to spend the same money on a few prestige hospitals which could only ever be used by an urban elite . |
| 30 | Much more effective to get the very attractive bridge in as well . |