Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 2 | Lord Beddington , mindful of the same appointment , was rather optimistically emerging from the shop with a bottle of Lockyers Sulphur Hair-restorer , and six tablets of Amiral soap ( ‘ Removes Burden of Corpulency ’ ) . |
| 3 | The technique has been most widely applied in the analysis of cytokine responses . |
| 4 | This must be the most widely document in the world , and yet for most breakfasters , the story behind its contents remains a secret . |
| 5 | Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on . |
| 6 | The movement for excellence is most widely known through the work of Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) . |
| 7 | The thinking programme which I developed ( the CoRT programme ) which is now the most widely used in the world for teaching thinking is designed to avoid confusion through the use of specific attention tools . |
| 8 | Once again , there is no requirement that any evidence than that which grounded the original ‘ reasonable suspicion ’ should actually exist — and we have already seen that this formula is sometimes rather loosely interpreted at the arrest stage . |
| 9 | This is most effectively demonstrated in the case of Sony 's Walkman , where the bass sound you hear is in effect a trick created by using cross-frequencies to ‘ synthesise ’ low bass in the mini-headphones ; it sounds low , but out loud there would be no real impact because it does n't actually exist ! |
| 10 | Which ones work most effectively depends on the individual . |
| 11 | If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible . |
| 12 | Changes to this ratio are most effectively induced by the operation of media , which McLuhan defines as extensions to the senses . |
| 13 | The parents again refused consent for the operation , but the operation was eventually successfully conducted following the intervention of social workers and a woman judge . |
| 14 | THE GOVERNMENT of Flanders , the region of Belgium most badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , has launched a ‘ do or die ’ attempt to create economic growth through new technologies . |
| 15 | So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery . |
| 16 | My experience of these potencies over many years has demonstrated their usefulness in the treatment of serious cases , and deep pathology is rarely wholly eradicated without the aid of fifty millesimal potencies . |
| 17 | When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay . |
| 18 | Although both parents will be affected by the departure of children , the impact is likely to be most keenly felt by the woman . |
| 19 | But when I was there there were once one instant is er er the man on watch in the morning he spotted a floating mine come in right down to close to the rock and er er it anchored just about er er a quarter of a mile or maybe two hundred yards off the rock off the tower and er of well when a mine anchors of course it becomes er alive . |
| 20 | It was apparent that the department felt rather less threatened by the prospect of the appraisal after the process had been described in more detail . |
| 21 | Although most socialist writers were agreed that crime resulted from the misery , exploitation , greed and selfishness promoted by the private property relationships of capitalism , they were rather less agreed on the status of the criminal . |
| 22 | Just altogether less demanding on the child as well as on the mother . |
| 23 | He noted that most progress had been made by firms which were the most highly geared at the onset of recession . |
| 24 | The only contraception that was on offer ( though sporadically ) was for use by men , whose interests were arguably better served by the birth of another son than by their wives ' good health . |
| 25 | Pressure on land was fairly slack in the south ( most obviously shown by the fact that when holdings were reoccupied they were often taken up by men who already held land , and not by landless men ) , whereas in the east there was no shortage of tenants , and the demand for land was maintained . |
| 26 | Eliot 's practice , as his remarks just quoted make clear , was always ‘ freed ’ verse : verse freed indeed from the constraints of traditional prosody , yet rather constantly recalling to the reader 's ear one of the traditional patterns it was departing from . |
| 27 | Modern readers of Middlemarch sometimes find it perplexing that significant social action , even for a woman in a provincial town in 1829 , should be precluded , and that the single exception — the building of cottages — should be so inadequately dramatized within the novel . |
| 28 | Women , it was generally claimed , were put to do " straight setting " , that is composing lines of type ( by hand for most of the period ) , and only rarely moved from the type-case to do the other tasks regarded as part of the trade ( making up , imposition , locking up chases , carrying formes , etc . ) . |
| 29 | For this reason urban women in Pakistan only rarely work outside the home . |
| 30 | ( In fact , sets right at the top of this range were only rarely included in the testing programme . ) |