Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] the [noun] " 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 | Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The well was dry and shortly thereafter the Marathon licences in Northern Ireland were relinquished . |
| 7 | It 's unfortunate that yet again the Mercury got it wrong they stated that we had made a decision to close four homes |
| 8 | General Vashinov sat opposite him , to his left and halfway up the table . |
| 9 | Any improvements , if they occur , are likely to be slow and gradual and as much the result of long-term and somewhat extraneous factors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nice men all but surely not the management for South Africa 's first major tour since 1981 . |
| 13 | King said : ‘ We got to the byline a lot on Friday which is always encouraging but too often the ball hit the first defender . |
| 14 | By late afternoon they were more than halfway up the Exit Cracks . |
| 15 | That 's more than likely why the likes of Solitaire and Minesweeper get booted as often in offices around the country , and why Leisure Suit Larry was so popular with the City types a while back . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An advertising writer , he 's energetic , articulate and presumably just the sort of person Labour say they want to recruit . |
| 18 | But this is localized and too often the motivation for assistance is one-sided and temporary . |
| 19 | The larger the battery capacity , the faster and more deeply the charge/discharge can occur . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Doggedly , they fly higher and higher up the flanks of the mountains towards piles of immense granite boulders that lie close to the summits . |
| 24 | 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 , |
| 25 | We then tried to rent a garage ( long and thin and hence more the shape of a church ! ) but this fell through too . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was much more fun than nowadays when the farmer is on his own . |