Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could hear the younger dog in the distance , his bark muffled now by the rapidly descending cloud . |
| 2 | Increasingly , as penetration of the West European markets on any large scale failed to materialise , the German states looked eastwards to the less socially advanced , less well-organised societies along their borders . |
| 3 | In endeavouring to meet this need numerous problems are encountered , notably how to find enough money to provide adequately for the increasingly large proportion of the population who are in retirement , and therefore by and large non-productive , and how to define ‘ adequate ’ in this context . |
| 4 | At the Essex Forest Eyre held at Waltham Holy Cross in 1489 , juries attended only from the hundreds of Becontree and Waltham Holy Cross and the half hundred of Waltham , plus four men and the reeve from only seventeen forest townships , all in the south-western corner of Essex : that is to say , the forest of Essex had been reduced , roughly speaking , to the bounds laid down by the hotly contested perambulations of 1300 . |
| 5 | The Life of Udalric of Augsburg refers lyrically to the specially composed chants which were performed at the Palm Sunday services on the hill called ‘ Perleihc ’ by the canons and boys of Augsburg cathedral . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the use of this vague and undefinable term fits neatly into the all too German habit of using vague absolutes as political watchwords . |
| 7 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 8 | A SURVEY by the St John Ambulance Brigade came up with the remarkably interesting finding that the man most women would prefer to give them the kiss of life , assuming it was necessary or even if it was n't , would be TV doctor Hilary Jones . |
| 9 | To Pamela 's surprise , the corners of Jan 's pretty mouth lifted fractionally in the very early stages of a smile . |
| 10 | They also resisted Winter 's efforts to reduce labour costs both through the more efficient deployment of staff and the consideration of new technology . |
| 11 | Later , as a result of other movements in the rocks , fissures opened up in the slowly solidifying granite . |
| 12 | Police estimated no more than 30,000 party supporters turned out on the heavily barricaded streets , eager to be arrested by the 75,000-strong security forces . |
| 13 | A police car streaked by on the relatively traffic-free side of the M4 , its siren 's wail mournful , and the flashing light replaced the sodium yellow filling the car taking my mind to another time . |
| 14 | Cutting off the supply of nutrition to tissues in any part of the body has a further consequence — new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit . |
| 15 | Gyggle started off with the most sophisticated of these , the symbol and colour cards , but was soon reduced to getting me to try and guess — and a guess is all I could make — which of three paper cups had a ping-pong ball under it . |
| 16 | This chapter draws heavily on the best known and most detailed model of cohesion available . |
| 17 | There was a loud crunching of gears as she forced it into reverse again , then sent the car hurtling again into the now stationary Audi , shunting it several yards further back . |
| 18 | The defeat brought home in the most devastating fashion just how far the Empire 's development had fallen behind that of her Great Power rivals in the West . |
| 19 | To help its clients keep up with the seemingly exponential growth of market data , Yamaichi Securities Co. , Ltd. has created the world 's first integrated information system focused exclusively on the financial sector . |
| 20 | So , Jess was chauffeur driven to The Belfry while his girlfriend went home with the very nice man from the AA in the recovery truck . |
| 21 | This alone improves NEC by around £70/kW/ year and the final NEC works out at the much more favourable — £93/kW/year . |
| 22 | Hungary stood out as the most environmentally aware country in Eastern Europe , with over half of its companies having implemented environmental policy . |
| 23 | ( ’ Like' for retributivists meaning alike in the intuitively appealing sense of ‘ similarly deserving ’ . ) |
| 24 | Yasser Arafat sticks doggedly to the infinitely tortuous ‘ peace process ’ , never saying ‘ no ’ to the Americans , even though it is obvious to him that what the Israelis want is surely unique in the history of peace negotiations : to both set their agenda and to appoint the other side 's representatives . |
| 25 | It is true that Eliot went through all the ritual gestures with almost perfect precision ; and his impeccably-dressed figure stood out among the rather battered brethren stationed in front of us . |
| 26 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 27 | Around the Acousticube 's rear , the dominant feature is a large heatsink to help dispel the warmth of transistors cooking away in the virtually sealed box . |
| 28 | The Literary Lionisers gazed up at the most splendid Norman keep in England . |
| 29 | Tense thriller concocted out of the most unpromising elements : three characters , two boats , and a lot of water . |
| 30 | On her next outing Dawn Run came down at the very first fence at Liverpool , giving Jonjo O'Neill a terrible fall . |