Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While 5.5mm is the most widely adopted diameter for arrows , it is by no means the only thickness . |
| 2 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 3 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 4 | Abraham de Wicquefort , when in 1681 he published the best-known and most widely read work on diplomacy produced anywhere in early modern Europe , could still speak of the formal witnessing of a royal oath to keep a treaty of peace or alliance as one of the obvious reasons for the sending of an extraordinary ambassador . |
| 5 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 6 | And Charlie was probably the most highly paid chauffeur in London . |
| 7 | Commercial tools and technology manager Nancy Colwell claimed that systems management tools from a company with longevity such as CA was the most highly requested demand from Sun users , while Sun president Scott McNealy claimed that Sun would have up to 10,000 commercial servers out in the field by the end of the year . |
| 8 | It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) . |
| 9 | This was not a problem which afflicted journalists who were the most carelessly dressed tribe of professionals he had come across . |
| 10 | The county is 100 miles long and my constituency is the most sparsely populated area of Cornwall . |
| 11 | This is followed by presentation of the much less appreciated production of Prague and Germany , France and the Gobelins , and the Bourbons in Madrid and Naples . |
| 12 | In 1469 , during the reign of James III , Scotland was first described as an ‘ Impyre ’ — sixty-four years before the much better known claim of Henry VIII to the same effect . |
| 13 | The aim of the single market is to integrate progressively the distinct national markets which have for so long characterised trade between EC member states , with the object of providing opportunities for economic growth irrespective of the location of producer , supplier , wholesaler , retailer or customer . |
| 14 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 15 | The maker of weapons , the fletcher or the bowyer , might not so easily claim immunity from war . |
| 16 | We only ever had cream of mushroom . |
| 17 | We conclude that minimal sedation with midazolam alone still produces hypoxia during ERCP in a substantial number of elderly patients . |
| 18 | Mr Shepherd 's comments are also directed at Charity workers who he feels would be better off sending help to Croatia which is currently not under siege . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sorry he had n't read the manifesto , but he 's better off playing golf with Sean Connery and drinking Japanese whisky in Marbella . ’ |
| 20 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 21 | There is no way in which I can vote for a guillotine which so severely curtails debate in Committee . |
| 22 | The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia . |
| 23 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 24 | ‘ Black magic ’ is apparently now considered racist in America so the term ‘ Chinaman ’ must also be the same , ’ Professor Jones said . |
| 25 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 26 | Ultrasound scanning may show thickening of the bile ducts and less often provides evidence of bile duct stricturing and/or dilatation . |
| 27 | So boldly mix mod with trad for eyecatching results and maximum flexibility . |
| 28 | He is only now showing interest after pressure from Cabinet colleagues like Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine , fearful of the damage the Scottish Office is doing to the government 's shaky green image . |
| 29 | Though violence sometimes occurs at American sporting contests , it is seldom of a comparable scale and intensity to the football hooliganism which so often takes place in Britain , West Germany , the Netherlands and Latin America ( Guttmann , 1986 ; Smith , 1983 ) . |
| 30 | The next issue will hit your desks in October ( 1993 I hope ) so please put pen to paper , fingers to keyboard ( but not tipp-ex to screen I beg you ) , and get your scribblings in to the publishing team by early September ( exact date will be given soon ) . |