Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembers most warmly the lively discussions in the Men 's Bible Class , the chief spokesman being Mr John George McCann who , with his family , for many years gave skilled and professional help with the harvest decorations . |
| 2 | If you have followed the advice and tried the exercises you will understand a little better the basic skills of studying History . |
| 3 | ‘ But we do want to create a pattern of rent differentials that will reflect rather better the relative values of different houses and flats . |
| 4 | Women are not like that ; or at least , the details , the weaknesses they dwell on in narration are only rarely the physical ones that men delight in . |
| 5 | However , sometimes the reverse holds — the less clear the task-oriented action(s) , the clearer the socio-emotional role . |
| 6 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 7 | So all the more thanks for Question Time ( BBC 1 ) , showing simultaneously on the other side , in which Mr Baker had no choice but to sit opposite Arthur Scargill and John Smith , all marshalled impartially by Peter Sissons , controversially and expensively replacing Sir Robin Day . |
| 8 | How is a consultant physician or surgeon in a busy hospital supposed to find time for the formal educational supervision suggested , much less the pastoral aspects ? |
| 9 | The revised figures were unlikely to satisfy the Opposition , much less the foreign bankers on whom Britain depended for her rescue from imminent bankruptcy . |
| 10 | The need to provide suitable jobs for an ever-growing number of even qualified job-seekers , much less the unqualified ones described by writers such as Kocu Bey , is likewise almost certainly responsible for the considerable elaboration of the grades of medreses which occurred from the late sixteenth century onwards . |
| 11 | The whole question of ancient alignment practices remains an important enigma : we do not understand the British cursus-type features ( earthen avenues ) or stone-rows , much less the Andean lines . |
| 12 | ‘ People do n't use pubs like they used to do and that 's the demise of the country pub , not so much the other things that have been said . |
| 13 | The influence of all three is perceptible in Nicholas Shakespeare 's first novel , though it is not so much the magical flights of Marquez as Greene 's Catholic mysticism which I found the most intriguing . |
| 14 | Strange that this bird sits there and sings While we must only sit and plan Who are so much the higher things — The murder of our fellow man … |
| 15 | It may be that what we are protecting children from is not so much the awful consequences of their ignorant decisions but of the burden of responsibility for those decisions which children are not yet ready to bear and which , for entirely non-political reasons , we can not choose to impose upon them . |
| 16 | Not so much the screaming figures . |
| 17 | Now Cranston had seen decapitated heads , be they of murdered taverner or some lord executed on Tower Hill , but this was truly gruesome ; it was not so much the half-closed eyes and still blood-dripping neck but the mouth forced open and , thrust inside , the mangled remains of the dead merchant 's genitals . |
| 18 | Indeed , one might say , though a little misleadingly , that it is not so much the substantive topics which distinguish disciplines , but their theoretical interests . |
| 19 | Those conceptions hold that it is not so much the white individuals who are the oppressors , for they are only part of an overall structure which has been designed to exclude blacks from positions of seniority . |
| 20 | At the moment publishers fear not so much the literary efforts of retiring politicians but those of MPs who have lost their seats . |
| 21 | The top copy shows no VAT registration number , ‘ blanks out ’ the VAT details so only the VAT-inclusive amounts are visible and states ‘ This is not a tax invoice ’ . |
| 22 | , General Secretary , responding on behalf of the C E C. Er , perhaps just the two motions first . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ I want you to mix my live album — ‘ David Live' ’ , so off I went to New York and we did very few overdubs , basically just the backing vocals , because the backing vocals were done by Warren Peace which is Geoffrey McCormack in disguise , and some other bloke , whose mane I ca n't remember , and as they were dancing all the time the backing vocals were rather breathless , so we had to dub them again in the recording studio . |
| 24 | So exactly the same brands same things . |
| 25 | Perhaps also the rare outbreaks of parasitic bronchitis in houses calves are associated with the dispersal of L3 by Pilobolus growing in the dung of adjacent infected cattle . |
| 26 | The OR Staff are quite rightly intent on seeking battle-winning performance ; the scientists and technologists enjoy and rise to the challenge ; and so both the principal groups of participants in equipment development are pushing in the same direction without an effective countervailing force . |
| 27 | A week or so later the Italian experts returned the recorder to the magistrate and told him they were unable to read the recorded information . |
| 28 | His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman 's boots were laced halfway up the stout legs . |
| 29 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |
| 30 | So also the french Radicals in the Fourth Republic were to splinter in all directions , participating in governments of both left and right . |