Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Share sales tend to be rather less complex structurally than asset sales in that through buying the shares the purchaser acquires all the assets and liabilities of the target . |
| 2 | Loretta speculated to herself that Bridget 's nerve was becoming a little less steady now that her own involvement in the affair was taking on a more practical aspect . |
| 3 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |
| 4 | They 'll probably still send somebody , but perhaps only one rather than two . ’ |
| 5 | The demands of the king upon the realm for sacrifices and contributions towards the war effort would have been much less effective even than they were , had not the church acted as a kind of ministry of information and propaganda . |
| 6 | Then , apparently deciding that the idyll was over , he wandered away , his limp much less apparent now that his wound was healing well . |
| 7 | Now , although the idea that whenever we see that someone is in pain we make an inference from behaviour to feeling is about as mythical as the idea that at some time in the past we made a Social Contract , the ‘ argument from analogy ’ line of reasoning seems much less implausible here than in the ‘ Afternoon on the Sun ’ case . |
| 8 | But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be . |
| 9 | A small number of cycad genera survive in the tropical and subtropical regions today , but they are much less conspicuous today than they were 120 million years ago . |
| 10 | I feel so much better now that I 've written to you , Joan . |
| 11 | Why then , people wonder , is inflation so much higher here than in our main competitor countries ? |
| 12 | Has the desire been bred in us or is it that there are so many and so easily available today that they are no longer considered of value ? ) |
| 13 | Perhaps more difficult even than the financial juggling is the isolation and loneliness . |
| 14 | Mrs Parkin would take quick sidelong looks at her new daughter-in-law , hoping to catch her out , but there she 'd always be , merry as a chicken , tra-la-lahing amongst the pots and pans in the kitchen , or lipsticking her lips in the frameless octagonal mirror in the parlour , or telling her rosary in front of the Virgin , apparently more devout even than Bernard , the most devout of all her sons . |
| 15 | Our message is that have a think about an alternative possibility , about being much more high-key , much more pro-active rather than reactive . |
| 16 | But the economist added : ‘ Our analysis are much more negative even than the samizdat literature . |
| 17 | ‘ How can they not understand that to do a real Kitezh or a real Ruslan — as we will do in the next year or so , it 's planned — is much more honourable , much more pleasurable artistically and much more important to the artistic world that a middleclass performance of , let's say , Rigoletto , in a small opera-house in Germany or Italy ? |
| 18 | Their ‘ Metropolis ’ of 1991 on the other hand , also in Berlin , is generally thought not have succeeded in pointing the way for the decade , probably because the art scene is much more fragmented now and no single trend can be identified . |
| 19 | One of my longest standing friends commented to me on Thursday evening how I had started to laugh again and was much more relaxed rather than — and I quote — ‘ the grey ghastly sight you have looked for weeks ’ — ( shades , if you recall of 's amazing remarks after my April visit when forced to detour to document sign — and , incidentally on that score , we have hit yet another legal obstacle , so heaven knows when that will all get sorted out ) . |
| 20 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 21 | The recession — it looks as though there is a glimmer of light , but I was on the continent a couple of three weeks ago when the mortar attack took place at Number Ten and the reaction of people I met I mean it was much more marked there than it was here , or seemed to be . |
| 22 | The women 's game is much more open today and Gabriela Sabatini has been the best player on the women 's tour this year . |
| 23 | The computational approach is , therefore , much more rigorous intellectually than that to which many psychologists have been accustomed . |
| 24 | Lewis Smedes , in his book Sex in the Real World , lists a number of reasons why adultery is so much more common now than in previous generations . |
| 25 | And , moreover , it would be far less labour-intensive and much more rapid especially as the present 14-day settlement would be replaced by a rolling 3-day settlement . |
| 26 | Sometimes people today bewail the fact that they were not contemporaries of the historical Jesus , and imply that it would be much easier to believe and much more advantageous generally if they had been . |
| 27 | In the case of elderly people these economic considerations seem somewhat more important even than the elderly person 's need for physical care . |
| 28 | In some jurisdictions ( for example , Scotland ) juvenile offenders are dealt with almost entirely under civil rather than criminal proceedings ; in others , including the English , this is partly the case . |
| 29 | It is perhaps hardly surprising then that , faced with this kind of system in operation , councillors in Derbyshire and elsewhere should fight back with their own Realpolitik and hit where they think the effect will be most controversial . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been so unnaturally virtuous lately that you can surely grant me two kisses in one day ! ’ |