Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately this is led to some rather less than glorious dealings including such actions with planning applications at Heathrow Airport by District Council . |
| 2 | Before that evening the Pink Floyd 's gigs had been small affairs such as the ICA , and for the London Free School at St Luke 's Hall in Notting Hill — but their rudimentary light show meant they were paid rather better than Soft Machine . |
| 3 | The resulting exposition is so authoritative that practitioners and the courts departed from it only rarely unless subsequent developments made this necessary . |
| 4 | SALARIES for university law teachers have slipped so badly and professional salaries risen so dramatically that experienced staff are being lost at an alarming rate , the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools reported this week . |
| 5 | I was grateful to him because I was really shaking with fear , so much so that poor Dawn could hardly sit up straight on my hand . |
| 6 | What should have been a triumphant closing ceremony turned into an embarrassing muddle , so much so that Polish television switched to a football match . |
| 7 | Calls ‘ teu ’ , ‘ teeoo ’ , ‘ chik ’ , etc. not so loud as other shanks , also a liquid twittering trill . |
| 8 | The set of curtains were rotated 90° daily so that directional polarization was under experimental control . |
| 9 | Parsley does best in deep moist soil and sun ; the mints prefer the same soil , and are impervious to shade or sun , but pineapple mint will survive in drought much better than ginger mint . |
| 10 | But the local publican told Jane that these maligned outsiders behaved much better than drunk Councillors . |
| 11 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 12 | It supposedly has a ‘ real ’ remote procedure call system , ‘ much better than Open Network Computing RPC , ’ and can communicate within a machine or between machines . |
| 13 | Good windsurfing boots or shoes have soft rubber soles so your grip will be far better , and the materials used in them mean that they can withstand use in water much better than running shoes . |
| 14 | .. the struggle to establish a clear identity for a radical left of centre politics in the latter part of the 20th century goes much deeper than individual policy issues . |
| 15 | Mutations at Lys22 suggest slight deleterious effects on operator recognition in vitro of the Glu and Ala mutations , with somewhat better than wild-type affinity for Arg substitution . |
| 16 | The study showed that at the Honours level the non-standard entrants did somewhat better than other students , and the difference was more marked in ordinary and general degree courses . |
| 17 | In the main , however , the selection procedure is rigorous enough so that basic training does not have to be used for assessment purposes . |
| 18 | Does it perform sufficiently better than Soviet equipment to warrant the hard currency expended upon it . |
| 19 | Though television was pro-government and pro-Conservative it was much less so than other elements of the mass media . |
| 20 | It is potentially hugely divisive given the Scottish party 's left-wing sensibilities , but less so if working-class traditionalists like Clarke can go down Smith 's route to modernity . |
| 21 | The rule is that the two plugs fit together so that black wires are in the middle — if you are in any doubt then seek assistance or use a voltmeter to check the power supply . |
| 22 | He 's reduced the amount of water in his lavatory system and does n't let the tap run for so long when developing photographs in his darkroom at home . |
| 23 | So long as international affairs were left to the uncontrolled interplay of nation states , mutual suspicion would generate arms races which , in turn , would generate wars . |
| 24 | Au these possibilities are recognized in EC competition policy , and are given exemption from Article 85 so long as certain safeguards are in place . |
| 25 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |
| 26 | So long as criminological theory drew from ahistorical empirical data from the United States and Europe it was possible to construct theories relatively consistent with the available evidence . |
| 27 | So long as political elites are capable of providing policy leadership , the roles and behaviour of public agency administrators are simple . |
| 28 | Indeed , so long as total pleasure just outweighs total pain an ever increasing population is likely to be a more effective way of increasing happiness than making life better for each individual . |
| 29 | So long as other leaders do not follow Dubček 's example , Moscow can be confident of dealing with known quantities in its client states and of possessing means to manipulate factional rivalries to its own advantage . |
| 30 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |