Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Pius XII 's encyclical Mystici Corporis brought back the concept of the Church as the body of Christ to the centre of Catholic teaching , it most remarkably avoided the slightest reference in this to the relationship between the Eucharistic body and the ecclesial body , and omitted the slightest notice of the basic Pauline text for that relationship , 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 2 | Neither stars nor cloud shadows marked the darkness stretching overhead and on down to meet the equal gloom of the ocean . |
| 3 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 4 | It was through his West Indian interests that his career most obviously spanned the great divide of 1660 . |
| 5 | Mr Moss Evans 's union , the Transport and General Workers , had called the lorry drivers out on the strike that a reading of contemporary newspapers suggests was the event , seen as characteristic of the abuse by trade unions of their power , that most vividly exposed the vacuity at the heart of policy and so most damaged the Labour Government 's prestige and prospects . |
| 6 | They so often have long since lost the literal meaning of their origins , and thus they are frequently capable of causing gross confusion and comic misunderstanding . |
| 7 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 8 | The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land . |
| 9 | While their challenge was clearly the most serious to have been presented to President Ceausescu , and was made with the full knowledge of important facts , it was also made by people who have long since left the political scene , mainly having retired , or been retired — prematurely — by Mr Ceausescu . |
| 10 | Trained in a business where presentation was paramount , she had long since learned the best way to project the image of herself she wished other people to see . |
| 11 | She who had long since learned the necessary control to hide her feelings was about to suffer the greatest humiliation of all , the fall of angry tears which would betray her sensitivity , leaving her naked and vulnerable before this man whom she had begun to trust … åd his friends … |
| 12 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 13 | Suddenly in marched the gigantic figure of the Headmistress in her belted smock and green breeches . |
| 14 | It was thought that if the balls of soft paste were boiled , long enough to toughen the outer surface , but not for too long so that the inner remained soft , there would still be plenty of flavour left in the bait to serve its purpose , and sufficient toughness to make it extremely difficult for a smaller fish to take the bait in smaller portions . |
| 15 | For most people it seems that it is necessary to stay long enough to enjoy the bad weather as well as the good , to gain a true appreciation of the countryside . |
| 16 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 17 | Some stances may be held for only a fraction of a second , just long enough to provide the correct arrangement of balance , position and technique availability . |
| 18 | Despite the urgency of the summons , he had been kept waiting in Stevenson 's outer office long enough to read the early edition of the Evening Standard . |
| 19 | Formal research into the headaches began in 1970 and , until now , no-one has followed up patients for long enough to determine the natural course of the condition . |
| 20 | Installed in the power supply to the immersion heater , a push-button sets an electronic timer long enough to heat the average household hot water cylinder . |
| 21 | Supporting her with his right arm , his left hand strayed from her breasts to her thigh , and from there slowly completed the journey to the mouth of the Cave of Sweet Mysteries , lingering long enough to find the little temple of Min and arouse him as she began to gasp for breath , her tongue making passionate sallies into his ear . |
| 22 | Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den . |
| 23 | In Wales , the Home Secretary can not distinguish a rural community from an urban community , much less appreciate the different policing needs of each . |
| 24 | For women whose kitchens have been their own , it seems to come naturally enough to share the domestic space in the refuge and at least here they have a room of their own — possibly for the first time in their lives . |
| 25 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 26 | That is also why it so much welcomed the successful outcome of the Maastricht agreement on those lines . |
| 27 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 28 | The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by . |
| 29 | Rachel could see the reasoning behind that , but nevertheless felt angry towards Damian Flint — not because he had so obviously done the right thing , but because he was so clearly in complete control of a situation that had always been beyond Rachel . |
| 30 | It was admitted that there were problems in getting both husband and wife to sit down together to complete the necessary paperwork . |