Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their success in gripping the public mind can be compared today only to the most avidly watched television programmes . |
| 32 | On the whole , women marry considerably later in the economically more advanced nations . |
| 33 | Hijras ( eunuchs ) are referred to in the very earliest of Hindu texts , the Vedas , written in the second millennium B C. Here castration was seen as a degrading punishment meted out only to the very lowest in society . |
| 34 | The view , increasingly held , that the pre-1834 Poor Law was a far from ineffective mechanism in this respect , rests on the recognition that until the sums needed for relief inflated so hugely in the later eighteenth century and especially after the crisis of the mid 1790s , extreme disgruntlement was not often expressed , as a sense of community support and involvement led to a fairly general acceptance of the obligation which rested on the better-off . |
| 35 | There are also indoor pelota courts , called trinquets , which , to the lay eye anyway , can look like royal tennis courts , and where yet other forms of pelota are played , usually professionally ( I well remember , from my youth , that the then world real tennis champion was a Basque , a celebrated player who no doubt grew up democratically playing pelota and then switched easily enough to the very exclusive game of real or royal tennis ) . |
| 36 | We all know the prehistoric method of treating the dead , which obtains even to-day in the less enlightened parts of the country — the body hurriedly placed in the coffin , the packing with sawdust , and the necessarily precipitate screwing down of the lid . |
| 37 | The presence of the Pinot Blanc Vrai is almost negligible , while the Arbanne and Petit Meslier are found almost exclusively in the less favoured regions in the Aube . |
| 38 | The theories in question arose originally out of a joining together of empirical research and clinical observation , some of which go right back to the very earliest descriptions of schizophrenia and it is therefore instructive to consider , first , what Bleuler himself believed to be the essential features of the ‘ disease ’ that he had named . |
| 39 | Administrative axe falls most heavily on the centre as its size is pared down ; economic axe falls most heavily on the less efficient , as unemployment and bankruptcies make their first appearance . |
| 40 | No one was , however , and life went on normally until the very last moment . |
| 41 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 42 | Apparently the green movement is worried that the rind may carry pesticides ; a new generation of beer purists dislike the lemon ; and it does not go so well with the heavily sedimented style currently favoured . |
| 43 | This is appropriate in more ways than one , since , like McTaggart , Tabner has remained somewhat apart from the more experimental tendencies of his time . |
| 44 | And then she looked down again at the neatly typed list in the book , open on the floor in front of her . |
| 45 | It is not just that the academic protocols of putative objectivity , cross referencing and theoretical vocabulary sit uneasily beside political polemic which reads so differently from the equally strict conventions of focused brevity in the local government or consultant 's report , although these issues of style are themselves not minor . |
| 46 | " Go out in the airfield and we will tell you , and field away out , " they said , I went away out to the most remarkable end until I was on the edge of the main runway . |
| 47 | Because , Nizan asserts , Friedmann is unable to perceive the necessity of the organic link between theory and practice , he is led not only to the purely academic conclusion that it is incorrect to speak of the " philosophy " of either Lenin or Stalin , but also , and more significantly , to an inability to perceive the fundamentally different objectives pursued by Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 48 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |
| 49 | The registrar laughed to himself and then looked up thoughtfully at the endlessly turning fan . |
| 50 | Both brothers laughed out loud at the deliberately comic delivery of his English phrases as they shook hands . |
| 51 | They seem based on what is essentially a largely Viennese-inspired ‘ received tradition ‘ tempo assumptions which go back only to the later 19th century at the earliest . |
| 52 | Erm , just to erm veer back on to the on to the handout for the moment . |
| 53 | ‘ Steady on , ’ said Alex , laughing , slipping back easily into the comradely banter she 'd always enjoyed . |
| 54 | She stared unseeingly upwards through the virtually motionless leaves to the empty sky above . |
| 55 | While he did n't envy Frobisher his job , William Bird could cope well enough with the less salubrious demands of his own . |
| 56 | Tourism income in Jordan ebbs and flows with the political mood of the Middle East , but it has been hit particularly hard by the most recent turmoil . |
| 57 | The little dark patch of slightly darker darkness shrank back to merge quite convincingly with the less dark darkness and form an overall dark sort of an area . |
| 58 | Now once he 'd stepped forward on to the on to the shore what happened ? |
| 59 | Miss Mates , who had removed the tea things , came bustling back , said to Dr Neil , ‘ Mind you are ready for surgery , ’ and brought him a plain black coat which he put on instead of the rather sporty Harris tweed one which he was wearing . |
| 60 | You see ( on your CCTV monitor ) some children playing dangerously close to the temporarily unmanned swimming pool . |