Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprise fought for supremacy over sheer relief , the final result hardly strong enough to chase away the last vestiges of fear . |
| 2 | Everything except the one thing that needed changing ; that alone remained unspeakably the same . |
| 3 | This effectively ruled out the overwhelming majority of black boxers based in Britain . |
| 4 | Gretener went On to suggest a scale , based on a 95% probability of a particular event happening , as follows : Of course it does n't matter what we call them , but this merely illustrates how the rare event merges into the regular . |
| 5 | Both were old enough to feel keenly the savage blow , one from which Leonard suffered in particular , albeit outwardly in guarded silence : ‘ The deeper the sorrow , the less tongue it has , ’ said the rabbis . |
| 6 | However , this necessarily locks out the unemployed , who are the dark side of this culture . |
| 7 | This normally involves either the United Association for the Protection of Trade ( UAPT ) , a non-profit organisation keeping records for its 12,000 members , or Credit Data ( CD ) , a commercial firm . |
| 8 | I am careful not to leave even the smallest scrap of yarn lying around as mother birds pick up the pieces and use them for lining their nests . |
| 9 | This clearly sums up the Conservative attitude to taxation and , most importantly , it views the alleviation of poverty as part of an overall policy to improve prosperity for everyone . |
| 10 | This probably excludes both the working-class commuters and the inhabitants of the council estates . |
| 11 | This again shows how the metric connections correspond to the inertial accelerations and forces of classical mechanics . |
| 12 | This , implicitly at least , demands the use of major computer systems , otherwise it would not be possible easily to carry out the necessary regular checks as to whether the various procedures have been undertaken within the prescribed time period . |
| 13 | One can only guess how these drugs were originally recognized , though it is easy enough to imagine how the fermented juice of squashed grapes began to be enjoyed . |
| 14 | These jelly-filled tubes have electroreceptor cells at their ends , delicate enough to pick up the tiny discharges of the prey 's body . |
| 15 | If one must assert , against the positivists , that it is impossible simply to wipe out the ideological accretions to a term like ‘ popular music ’ , it is also necessary to insist , against the essentialists , that these accretions , and the musical practices to which they refer , can not be simply disentangled , either from each other or from cultural relations as a whole . |
| 16 | Before proceeding to an assessment of Nizan 's psychological development between 1935 and 1939 , it is consequently appropriate and instructive initially to trace out the underlying structure of this communist political ethic . |
| 17 | And that still comes out the same place ? |
| 18 | The assumption within the KMT was that the " old men " of the party would disappear by " natural processes " , but the election results suggested that these processes were not rapid enough to appease either the growing sense of Taiwanese nationalism in the country or the related impatience at the slow pace of democratization . |
| 19 | It 's hard enough to break down the old prejudices — I know that from experience . |
| 20 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 21 | I have been lucky enough to have almost the perfect relationship with my act . |
| 22 | Wherever they were at school , a number of deaf children were unfortunate enough to stay there the whole duration of the war , neither seeing their parents nor going home for any holiday . |
| 23 | Betelgeux is a vast red supergiant , large enough to swallow up the whole orbit of the Earth round the Sun , while the pure white Rigel is a cosmic searchlight with 60000 times the Sun 's luminosity . |
| 24 | He explains that most specialist dies are , of course , catered for , including vegetarian dishes , which , I noticed , were unusual enough to tempt even the staunchest of meat-eaters like myself . |
| 25 | The atmosphere was hostile enough to make even the sturdiest outfit crumble , with almost 38,000 — the biggest crowd in England this season outside Wembley — turning Anfield into a seething cauldron . |
| 26 | take away the three then take away the four . |
| 27 | The next two areas in the list of uses-management and administration , and using office programs — come together in that both involve much the same hardware and software . |
| 28 | Toby Freely felt somewhat out of his depth , not confident enough to sort out the genuine from the assumed . |
| 29 | She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years . |
| 30 | The strange thing about these different ways of arranging the same information is that they all apparently mean exactly the same thing . |