Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was not a problem which afflicted journalists who were the most carelessly dressed tribe of professionals he had come across . |
| 3 | The county is 100 miles long and my constituency is the most sparsely populated area of Cornwall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We only ever had cream of mushroom . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ultrasound scanning may show thickening of the bile ducts and less often provides evidence of bile duct stricturing and/or dilatation . |
| 10 | Second , there was feeling , the word used not in the conventional sense , but to describe a much less consciously formulated process of appreciation and subjective valuation . |
| 11 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 12 | But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 . |
| 13 | This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne . |
| 14 | Arrests might rouse public sympathy for those who were thus apparently denied freedom of speech : |
| 15 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 16 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 17 | Increasingly , then , when we examine social change in rural England we must not only take account of changes within agriculture but of changes on the interface between the ‘ truly rural ’ ( i.e-agricultural ) inhabitants and the ‘ adventitious ’ population of ex-urbanite newcomers who have moved into the countryside in such large numbers since the war . |
| 18 | Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these . |
| 19 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 20 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 21 | That is , it does not directly make use of information about the length of words , or information about the overall word shape . |
| 22 | The physical ownership of a work does not automatically include ownership of copyright . |
| 23 | Belonging to a group does not inevitably produce hatred of others . |
| 24 | Most rheumatologists agree that monitoring the treatment in rheumatoid disease does not routinely require measurement of blood cyclosporin concentrations : patients ' blood pressure , renal biochemical variables , creatinine clearance , and full blood count are monitored . |
| 25 | THE devastating flames that swept through Windsor Castle did not simply damage part of Britain 's heritage . |
| 26 | The overwhelming climate of secrecy has long been encouraged and supported by the Official Secrets Acts 1911–1920 which have been used not simply to prevent disclosure of security information but to prevent the disclosure of all information which governments have chosen not to disclose . |
| 27 | The addition of 100 µl faecal fluid to a biopsy specimen in culture did not significantly affect metabolism of butyrate ( biopsy specimen+ faecal fluid 49.7 ( 10.1 ) nmol/µg protein/h , biopsy specimen+Krebs-Henseleit 52.2 ( 5.8 ) ) ( mean ( SD ) , five experiments per group ) ( 95% CI=-18.1 to 22.5 ) or glutamine ( biopsy specimen+faecal fluid 5.7 ( 1.1 ) , biopsy specimen +Krebs-Henseleit 6.8 ( 2.2 ) ) ( 95% CI=-3.8 to 2.2 ) . |
| 28 | While the statutory grounds of attack do not specifically mention error of law on the face of the record , later courts have given the formula a broad interpretation . |
| 29 | Researchers in the 50's showed that children from middle-class families were far more likely to gain a place at grammar school than the children of the working-class and the system was not therefore providing equality of opportunity . |
| 30 | However , Friedman did not explicitly introduce rationality of expectations into the natural rate hypothesis , and indeed appeared to favour the use of an adaptive expectations model , at least for the US at the time he was writing . |