Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , as stated above , the ability to accommodate properly is often inadequate , imprecise or totally lacking in the visually impaired child . |
| 2 | Knowing that nearly every parish in the country had their own guild or fraternity at one time , it is all the more frustrating to learn that little exists from the once vast stock of pre-Reformation funerary artefacts . |
| 3 | Although momentarily tempted by the seductively rich chocolate dessert Sabrina 's willpower held firm and she gave it to Graham . |
| 4 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 5 | Far from being impossibly Utopian , these attitudes were a survival necessity and eventually flowered into the extraordinarily peaceful and creative Minoan civilisation of ancient Crete . |
| 6 | For this reason , as Ashton and Sykes pointed out , extensive use of child labour in a high ratio to adult male labour underground was a function of technical progress and most marked in the more advanced fields . |
| 7 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 8 | However , other factors also played major roles in the revival of a brilliant career often blighted by putting lapses and finally threatened by the universally feared yips . |
| 9 | Companies such as Home Care and Nursing Services , Care Concern and Care Services provide home helps , nursing auxiliaries and care attendants , meals cooked in the home and home nursing for the terminally ill . |
| 10 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 11 | Council housing is becoming more and more marginalised as the better off tenants move out and higher rents encourage others to exercise their right to buy . |
| 12 | Our non-fusion polypeptide spanned VZV 140k codons 417 to 646 and mainly consisted of the highly conserved region 2 , designated on the basis of homology between the HSV-1 Vmw175 and the VZV 140k proteins ( 18 ) . |
| 13 | There was a current copy of the local rag lying on the chair beside him : he had read The Times and the Independent and now turned to the more microcosmic news . |
| 14 | As I have said earlier , we all need encouragement and often remarks from the most unexpected quarters are the most gratifying . |
| 15 | As no major salary increases for personnel are likely , they will remain demoralized and increasingly tempted by the recently introduced private practice . |
| 16 | Thus , it is argued , people do not agree on the number and composition of classes , nor on the location of the boundaries between them , which are fuzzy and readily crossed by the socially mobile . |
| 17 | He said consumers would handle various conventional materials such as cotton , and Tencel garments , and then opt for the more expensive Tencel version . |
| 18 | The waiter 's eyes had rounded and then slid to the now poker-faced Lucenzo , who became preoccupied with peeling the paper from a Carnival doughnut . |
| 19 | Mr Guest has been extremely helpful , first sending an inspector out to review the situation and then arranging for the 6.45am bus from Crook to Bishop Auckland to be rescheduled to arrive in Crook five minutes earlier . |
| 20 | A further refinement that has often been adopted is to rank the supposed users in order of importance and then to concentrate on the most important . |
| 21 | They possessed a certain plausibility in as much as Richard could not have gone on crusade without first ensuring that his position as his father 's heir was fully and publicly recognized in the most formal manner possible , while everything about Henry 's policy in the last four years indicated that he was reluctant to make any such announcement . |
| 22 | In the Talmud , and therefore dating from the very early centuries of the Common Era , there is the following comment on the Exodus story of the crossing of the Sea : ‘ When the Egyptian hosts were drowning in the Red Sea , ’ say the rabbis , ‘ the angels in heaven were about to break forth into songs of jubilation . |
| 23 | John o' Groats is commonly but wrongly regarded as the most northerly tip of the country and because of this popular misconception attracts many visitors , most of whom come for no better reason than to be able to say they have been there and , having satisfied this ambition , turn round and return south . |
| 24 | We encourage all our pupils not only to develop their individual potential but also to contribute to the well — being of others . |
| 25 | But even contacts between the most developed states of the west could on occasion , as in previous generations , demand from diplomats a good deal of physical hardihood . |
| 26 | This remained steady at 25,000 km. in 1920 , but actually dropped in the more prosperous years after 1922 to 23,100 in 1924 . |
| 27 | As the title of this paper shows , I am sure that we can not hope to do this rethinking while still clinging to the currently orthodox view that there are no natural , genetically determined sex differences . |
| 28 | A further bout of pneumonia during 1897 , followed by depression , forced him to return home to rejoin Y Faner as a sub-editor , while also contributing to the recently founded North Wales Times . |