Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main difference between the utilitarianism of Hutcheson and Hume , and that of Bentham , is that for the former it figured mainly as an account of our actual moral feelings , whereas for the latter it was not only this but even more the basis of a critique of current morality . |
| 2 | Regularly used in connection with such occasions-and very probably the term used to designate them is the word " honouring " : for example , and the honouring of accession and of campaign respectively ; and for the more personal occasions , and the honouring of one 's becoming kazasker and Mufti respectively . |
| 3 | They could make their way over that and eventually up the cliff to the eleventh green of the golf-course , to the gate in the garden wall . |
| 4 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 5 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 6 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 7 | Sun and salt water are equally drying and a combination of all three can prove harmful to your hair leaving it looking dull and frizzy and very much the worse-for-wear . |
| 8 | Nice men all but surely not the management for South Africa 's first major tour since 1981 . |
| 9 | King said : ‘ We got to the byline a lot on Friday which is always encouraging but too often the ball hit the first defender . |
| 10 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |
| 11 | If they are less than about twice the mass of the sun , they will eventually stop contracting and will settle down to a stable state . |
| 12 | An advertising writer , he 's energetic , articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit . |
| 13 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |
| 14 | The larger the battery capacity , the faster and more deeply the charge/discharge can occur . |
| 15 | These readers , the assumption might run , are at ease with the complexities of rhythm and vision , pattern and play , and united by this ease are free to discriminate more and more finally the detail of the smallest fragment or the structure or the entire work . |
| 16 | The Golden Oldies ' ideal is simple ; each team plays three matches , there are no prizes , just good sportsmanship , the will to win very evident but more so the honour to participate , and after the game a drink with the opposition . |
| 17 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |
| 18 | I said she had been trained properly , I was telling them just basically about Claire in general and just about the good of erm , things like things you like to talk about , and erm , so I just , I said , they cried poverty , I said , but you know , one minute she 's driving her old banger , and the next minute she 's got a K reg and outside the , |
| 19 | We then tried to rent a garage ( long and thin and hence more the shape of a church ! ) but this fell through too . |
| 20 | Last night , a spokesman for the Lord Chancellor 's Department said : ‘ The secure area of the court was refurbished in 1989 and as always the Home Office was consulted throughout the proceedings . |
| 21 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 22 | Calcretes developed in this way are thickest and at the greatest depth in the soil profile in areas of 100 400 mm ( 4–16 in ) of rainfall especially on the temperate margins of deserts ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) and become thinner and much nearer the surface in the arid regions proper . |
| 23 | It was much more fun than nowadays when the farmer is on his own . |