Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 What is easier than to look at the most conspicuous item in the marketing budget and one which is largely the concern of an outside supplier , at that ?
2 Child care research should help practitioners distinguish what is grave and enduring from the less serious and transient .
3 Taking an unmarked structure such as The book received a great deal of publicity in China as a starting point , we can suggest a number of possible thematic structures in English , starting with the least marked and ending with the most marked .
4 For instance , it is possible to contend that the nouveau roman may be more accurately described as modernist or late modernist when compared with the apparently more subversive avant-garde experimentalism of the Tel Quel group , whose claim to be the natural successors of the revolution inaugurated by Finnegans Wake would be difficult to refute .
5 The earliest printed account of his collection dates from 1761 : it lists sixty-five pictures and records a collection of ‘ about 12,000 prints , engraved and etched by the most celebrated masters of the three last centuries …
6 The metalinguistic view remains in several ways odd and indeed unsuccessful when regarded in the more plausible way .
7 The Government are confident that this defence plan , while helping to relieve the strain on the economy , will produce compact all-regular forces of the highest quality , armed and organized on the most up-to-date lines .
8 She arrived in Bamford a little after eleven and parked in the almost empty car park to the rear of the supermarket .
9 There is even a photograph of the boathouse at the same time , sitting in splendid isolation near Gimlet Rock in 1891 and contrasting with the more built-up scene in another photograph taken almost 100 years later .
10 A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that .
11 Products range from the truly estimable and inspired to the merely pretty and , sometimes , meretricious .
12 This is not to be wondered at , for it is both huge and beautiful and possessed of the most breathtaking spire in all Christendom .
13 Most claimants at the time of their appeal will be too troubled and hassled by the more practical day to day problems of their plight ever to have the emotional energy to study the nuts and bolts of the machinery by which their appeal will be processed .
14 To avoid confusion , we explain the main points first and deal with the more specialised capital gains aspects further along .
15 The oboe is much harder to play , but gives a clear , incisive lead and offers a range of effects from the Oriental and haunting to the gently pastoral .
16 In white leather with turquoise and grey trim , the Axis 800 comes in sizes 6–11 and retails for the very competitive price of £34.99 .
17 This may prove liberating for many female art students who have felt isolated and marginalised within the notoriously male dominated space of the fine art department .
18 I believe this to be indecent and to add to the already indecent burden women are having to bear . ’
19 Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ .
20 Both proponents and protesters are right to present their views and it is incumbent on politicians to ensure that adequate regulatory controls provide as large a degree of environmental protection as is possible when dealing with the relatively unknown .
21 The Australia of the early 1960s still seemed secure and stultified with the apparently eternal regime of Robert Menzies .
22 Independence was granted , either willingly or reluctantly , over a period of thirty years beginning with the cases of Ghana , Sudan and Morocco in the 1950s and ending with the somewhat exceptional one of Zimbabwe in 1980 .
23 The profile of the vertical curve is so calculated as to correspond with the gradually diminishing hauling effort of the descending tank as it enters the water .
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