Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps the laibon 's pebbles , worn smooth by his hands and his predecessors , right back to the great Mbatian , had told him . |
| 2 | Even were a suitable one found , this would not obviously better the party 's chances in the general election due two years from now . |
| 3 | Vasey 's were not the be-all and end-all , she decided , then realised that , with not another word coming from her brother Sebastian , not so much as another postcard , much less a banker 's draft with his share of the mortgage , they were the only firm around that paid the sort of money she was earning . |
| 4 | ‘ Not so much a willow 's twig , perhaps , as a woman 's talon . ’ |
| 5 | Wrong horse … and speaking of odds , word reaches us that super-confident Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb is so much the punters ' favourite that the town 's biggest bookie has stopped taking bets . |
| 6 | It was these , not so much the explosions per se that made the Krakatoa eruption the most lethal on record . |
| 7 | The findings indicate however that it is not so much the carers ' preferences which do or do not change but their feelings about the feasibility of those preferences . |
| 8 | On performance though , good as the new one is , I remain firmly attached to the TER , which is more romantically conceived , and captures much better the work 's operetta style . |
| 9 | The Bank of England , for so long the City 's unofficial leader , is also discredited . |
| 10 | Now So anyway the strike er never reached a successful conclusion , this firm had it 's blacklegs and er eventually closed because it could n't carry on . |
| 11 | She jacked out so quickly the tutor 's office swam around her before she knew what it was . |
| 12 | Er what the gov the British government would like to see is a resolution of these matters er our precise position er and attitude and er erm the assistance we can give in reaching conclusions is much more a matter er for ministers of the foreign office rather than myself so the honourable gentleman er invites me to tread in areas that do n't belong to me and do not actually belong to these orders that are before us , no they 're not , they 're not really relevant to whether we approve or not the orders that are before us , er I 'll give way in a moment but the honourable gentleman er for I believe wanted to intervene . |
| 13 | Just to make sure of getting seats , Pond put in two half-crowns , not much under a week 's wages for thousands of agricultural labourers . |
| 14 | I detest departmental nursing , so whenever a department 's short , there they send me ! ’ |
| 15 | so tenderly the waiter 's hairy wrist |
| 16 | So far the leadership 's reaction to the 1983 and 1987 defeats has differed from that to such earlier decisive election defeats in 1931 , 1951 , 1970 , and 1979 . |
| 17 | We can conclude that so far the law 's quest to subject the power conferred on corporate managers to controls to prevent it from being exercised arbitrarily has not been successful . |
| 18 | So far the war 's great unknown is the impact of the allied air offensive on Iraq 's main ground forces . |
| 19 | Emperor Probus , perhaps appropriately a gardener 's son , issued the directive in AD 280 to replant the vineyards of Gaul . |
| 20 | For Pete 's sake — it 's only about an hour 's drive . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The doctor came from London last night , so now the ship 's company is complete . |
| 22 | So often a person 's hands , twisting a tissue , smoothing a garment , will say more about inner tension than any words . |
| 23 | Spaniards remain insouciant about their currency ( so often a country 's virility symbol ) partly because , during Franco 's dictatorship , the state-owned press used to spend half its time explaining why the latest devaluation was a good thing . |
| 24 | Only today The Government 's joyriding bill went through the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Is he aware that only last week there was another incident of water pollution where a known carcinogen , formaldehyde , was tipped into the river and only fortuitously the company 's intakes were closed at the time ? |
| 26 | The general or ‘ philosophical ’ curriculum that I advocate would be based on a single principle : that the less narrowly a child 's critical faculties are confined within the bounds of a single set of concepts or procedures , the more easily he will be able to adapt to life after school , whether at work or in higher education , and the more free his imagination will become ; these two targets in fact being one and the same . |
| 27 | ‘ O Mary , mother of sorrows who knows so well a mother 's anguish , intercede I pray you for this sorrowing mother and her innocent son … ’ |
| 28 | No answer , but the pinched face reflected clearly enough how the boy 's heart sank within him . |
| 29 | Belgacom , the Belgian state phone company , is terrified that the government , which is in such a panic to cut its budget deficit as required by the terms of the Maastricht Treaty that it tendered its resignation to the king , who declined it , will rush to raise cash by privatising the phones : ‘ It is only when the company 's reorganisation and internal restructuring is complete that a new change to its statutes could be undertaken , ’ the board said , warning ‘ It takes time to transform an administration into an efficient and dynamic company . ’ |
| 30 | It is only when the body 's own powers are insufficient to deal with these disturbing factors , that medical intervention becomes necessary . |