Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [adv prt] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except for a very few rich people , they are all financially much less well off than they were . |
| 2 | Some tenants would be better off or only slightly worse off when unemployed , because housing benefit would then cover their rents in full . |
| 3 | So as far back as 1974 it was spelt out by the industry itself . |
| 4 | It will make matters so much easier all round if everyone is . ’ |
| 5 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 6 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 7 | He was still there right up until the moment of the shooting , because Michael Banks , who did n't know his lines , was still delivering them correctly and therefore still having them fed to him . |
| 8 | But it is reasonable to assume that Eastern Europe is still considerably better off than Brazil , which in early 1990 was reported to be $6 billion in arrears on its $115 billion debt and facing the prospect of 2200 per cent inflation during the year . |
| 9 | Even when there are n't seemingly many jobs for anybody I think a mathematician is probably as well off as anybody to get a job , almost at every level . |
| 10 | You 're probably far better off than your Danish equivalent . |
| 11 | Here in a vault at the county 's record office are kept seventy five thousand wills dating as as far back as fifteen forty one . |
| 12 | Even as far back as 1978 the white paper on the nationalized industries welcomed the development of audit committees and the contribution they could make to improved efficiency . |
| 13 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 14 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 15 | ‘ Ideas ’ have played a part in philosophy at least as far back as Plato , for whom they had a reality of their own quite apart from any relation they might have to our minds . |
| 16 | Ronald Reagan 's serious interest in politics dates at least as far back as his early days in Hollywood and , given the later doubts about his intelligence , it is interesting to note that , at this stage , he hardly lived up to the image of an empty-headed film actor . |
| 17 | Educationalists have taken such stances throughout the history of compulsory schooling and they can trace the roots of their position at least as far back as the writings of William Godwin ( 1756–1836 ) and J. J. Rousseau ( 1712 — 78 ) . |
| 18 | In forging this connection between familial morality and the strength of the nation state , Hopkins was drawing on a long-established tradition of moral philosophy dating at least as far back as the late eighteenth century . |
| 19 | The system was improved in 1597 , when ministers and churchwardens were instructed henceforth to keep their records in a bound register and to copy out surviving documents at least as far back as 1558 , when Elizabeth came to the throne . |
| 20 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 21 | If these rates were maintained then , with population growing at the rate of 1 per cent a year , each generation could expect to be roughly twice as well off as its parents and four times as well off as its grandparents . |
| 22 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 23 | You may find that with judicious use of available cash you 're not quite as badly off as you feared . |
| 24 | She ranges historically as far back as the Florence of Savonarola 's time in Romola , and geographically she actually encompasses themes such as Judaism in her last novel Daniel Deronda , and that , I think , you know , takes her both chronologically and geographically well beyond Jane Austen 's range of interest . |
| 25 | But taking your point about er , you know you 've got , you 've incurred these expenses anyway , therefore at the end of the day , you 're not that much better off than er |
| 26 | Ethel 's silent opinion was that Thomas 's strong point lay very much lower down than his brain . |
| 27 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 28 | He was very much more out than I was and he knew where the gay scene was , not only in Edinburgh but also in London . |
| 29 | At all times in the past , certainly as far back as the Neolithic period , there have been particular places to which surrounding settlements have looked for specialised goods and services . |