Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps the moral for itinerant artists is to stay at home and work with what you know . |
| 2 | It is entirely possible to think that if ‘ literary ’ and ‘ aesthetic ’ are words that go naturally with ‘ American ’ but not with ‘ English ’ , so much the worse for the English . |
| 3 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 4 | He had an irrepressible tendency to send up his interviewers : if they were daft enough to believe it — so much the worse for them . |
| 5 | If economic agents do not arrive at the solutions indicated by the economic model ( or if foreign policy decision-makers do not choose the strategies recommended by game theory ) , that is , one might say , so much the worse for the agents . |
| 6 | But if bureaucrats turn out not to organize and act as in the model , then that is so much the worse for the model . |
| 7 | The premise behind the ability to waive is that it is only the individual who is concerned , and thus if he ‘ chooses ’ to ignore the interest then so much the worse for him . |
| 8 | If for instance , Hanslick found it impossible to take his libretti seriously as poetry , so much the worse for Hanslick . |
| 9 | If his subjects were unwilling to accept the progress and enlightenment he offered , so much the worse for them . |
| 10 | So much the worse for human beings ? |
| 11 | So much the worse for computers ? |
| 12 | If it is a wet day or it has recently been raining , so much the better for showing up leaks and dampness . |
| 13 | If Upper Gumtree proved listless , so much the better for Flokati 's chances . |
| 14 | If he 'll have me with him and Charlotte , then so much the better for me . ’ |
| 15 | And ‘ so much the better for him ’ . |
| 16 | Of course if they can find someone on whose sympathy to play , someone who will pay one hundred or perhaps one hundred and fifty pounds then so much the better for them . |
| 17 | Thus , if what were yesterday hot political disputes can today be channelled into the ‘ legal process ’ , operating with new principles and procedures , and an apparent indifference to ‘ political ’ questions , then so much the better for those in power . |
| 18 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 19 | Not an enemy at all — but an ally in the greatest , most righteous , yet perhaps also the vilest of plans . |
| 20 | They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap . |
| 21 | The tank is 7ft long and 4ft wide ; so even the tallest of you should fit nicely ! |
| 22 | The head estimates that : overall we must have put something like £2000 into the library in terms of pure cash and obviously almost the equivalent in terms of hours of time given . |
| 23 | Among mature students the proportions gaining good degrees did not vary much however the 26 to 30 age group again came top . |
| 24 | Meanwhile perhaps the earliest of the inhibitor experiments was made by Wesley Dingman and Michael Sporn , in Rochester , New York , in 1963 . |
| 25 | The soldier , his eyes dead and full of drink , shrugged and grinned at his two companions , sallow , pimply youths already much the worse for wine . |
| 26 | Well yo you 're not just just the three of us . |
| 27 | Major Bugler was just about the best of these on the level — winning a competitive handicap at Ascot in October . |
| 28 | Just about the best of these over timber , he made a successful debut over fences at Carlisle and further improvement seems likely over today 's longer trip . |
| 29 | Just about the lowest of the low . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Now that we know British food is just about the worst in the world , ’ says Jonathon Porritt , director of Friends of the Earth UK , ‘ how ironic it is that we and other rich nations are exporting fat and sugar to starving people in Africa and Asia . |