Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having pretty much failed in the single most important objective of Systems Application Architecture , that of creating a single user interface for all its disparate operating system families with Common User Access , IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products group is trying again , this time with the Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend said that the county council 's not looking after the elderly properly was a reflection of the will of Labour councillors . |
| 3 | The trouble with this and other moralistic creeds is that they do not allow for the righteous manifestly not enjoying the fruits of their exemplary conduct . |
| 4 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |
| 5 | The intensity of the potency , determined by the quantity of dose given , is also regulated to the optimum especially if the doses are increased progressively as is suggested e.g. an extra 5ml spoonful each week . |
| 6 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 7 | America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST . |
| 8 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 9 | Although rarely found in the wild now , this native of Europe including Britain , was sometimes also known in the Middle Ages as " rush-leek " from the Greek schoinos , rush and prason , leek . |
| 10 | The traditional picture presented above of the efficacy of the occasional desert flood probably really applies to the semi-arid rather than to the truly arid regions . |
| 11 | After some long while of freelancing , Cara was now working for the superior bi-monthly magazine Verity . |
| 12 | As Alicia begins to build a new life for herself she is increasingly drawn towards the brusque yet magnetic charms of the Cornishman who owns Tresco , a remote ranch near the High Sierras . |
| 13 | She was glad to see her friends , naturally , and she loved the cottage , and got on quite well with Susan ; but at first she was completely baffled by the simple yet busy life they led . |
| 14 | When I was at school in the 1930s and 1940s the canon would have included King-lake 's Eothen , Thomas Hughes 's Tom Brown 's Schooldays , Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies and the essays of Charles Lamb , all little read by the young today . |
| 15 | The C-terminal portion of region 1 , poorly conserved in the related IE proteins of the α-herpesviruses , was also included in our expressed peptide ; the role played by these additional residues is not fully understood but deletion analysis on the 140k DNA binding domain found them to be necessary for the production of a clear DNase I footprint but not for binding in gel retardation assays ( see below ) . |