Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The path on is across slopes just as steep as these and , in the wet especially , the exposure may be too much for some .
2 The amount of tar may be as much as 40 per cent of the weight of the original feedstock .
3 Transfer category should be either ALL or ONLYAPPROVED .
4 Critical and creative thinking may be just another buzz phrase for thinking .
5 Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves .
6 However , total personnel in other parts of the warehouse may be as many as 60–100 .
7 The relevant conditions of engagement may be either those of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors or the Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioneers .
8 Their instinct is to try to hide this for fear of being thought weak or inadequate , and this , in part , contributes to the fact that although their overall experience of the distress of bereavement may be slightly less than that of widows , many men take longer to recover fully .
9 [ W ] hat a Constitution says is one thing , and what actually happens in practice may be quite another .
10 In doing so the ‘ enlightenment ’ that can be gained from research in helping us develop good child care policy and practice should be just that which should inform good policy and practice for child abuse .
11 However , such talk might be so much stuff and nonsense .
12 ‘ I would wish that your deportment on a horse could be more that of a lady and less that of a farm waggoner , ’ she remarked spitefully .
13 The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health .
14 The film reunites a number of the principal actors from the 1984 RSC production , but a true feeling of ensemble would be too much to hope for .
15 When the churches are gone religion will be simply all in the mind
16 Inner City 's first album will be out this month .
17 The turbulent wind behind a sail extends about five boards length downwind and if you are sailing in this area your speed can be as much as halved .
18 Once the outside interest and stimulation of a full-time job has gone , the greatest enemy can be too much unfilled time .
19 The Weekend Guardian might be just another memory .
20 Yet sometimes such suffering may be too much to bear , and is perhaps best dealt with by an elder attempting to return to former levels of less authentic but endurable adaptations to life .
21 Perhaps another trivia question might be how many players did he beat TWICE in that run …
22 The same act could be both this form of manslaughter and reckless manslaughter .
23 Palace officials believe the Queen would be too much at risk in Moscow as super-inflation and rocketing unemployment lead to growing unrest in the unstable republic .
24 And er the sun can be as much as nearly twenty minutes slow or fast .
25 He 's trying to show that the glider can be far more than the gentle flying machines they seem from the ground .
26 X-inefficiency can be even more of a problem in organizations producing non-marketed goods , like health and education , where it is extremely difficult to measure efficiency and where alternative sources of supply are not readily available , except to the affluent .
27 Beer was a very important part of monastic life where the daily ration of a monk could be as much as a gallon:of course there was always the caveat If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so that he can not join in the psalms , he is to be deprived of his supper .
28 The actual reduction could be as much as 33 per cent , he estimates , causing large areas to dry up .
29 The studies from Nigeria suggest that this failure may be as much to do with the character and personality traits of the generation of entrepreneurs who developed their businesses in the 1960s .
30 Some experts claim the difference may be as much as 15 per cent , but producers in Austria--which leads the rest of Europe in RME use--claim they can make RME for the same price as diesel .
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