Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Home Secretary 's remarks on PR , made to party workers in Stroud , are the most strident so far used by a senior Conservative against electoral reform , which is the condition set by the Liberal Democrats for their support in a hung Parliament . |
| 32 | He believes that practice in , for instance , mirror exercises , would over a period of time develop these personal traits , so often neglected by a traditional curriculum . |
| 33 | This is one of the reasons for the choice of hymns and other music being so often limited to a few old war-horses . |
| 34 | Auguste was promptly frogmarched into Mr Multhrop 's office , Mr Multhrop trotting along behind torn between a certain loyalty to Mr Dee and relief that officialdom had taken over . |
| 35 | By the late 1890s and early 1900s , typesetting was apparently well established as a possible career for a school-leaving girl . |
| 36 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 37 | It is comfortable to hold , feels ‘ solid ’ , and is obviously well assembled around a die-cast aluminium frame . |
| 38 | Christina knew it was none of her business — Martin was a free agent — but it disturbed her somehow to see him being so hotly pursued by a determined young woman . |
| 39 | This month , you need to double check the reason why you feel so strongly opposed to a certain possibility . |
| 40 | Full-back Hay had the first attempt and saw his shot only partially blocked by a hesitant Snelders . |
| 41 | What is surprising is that such a fact was so well narrated in a general circulation magazine from anywhere . |
| 42 | The Shepherd Gallery has discovered a terracotta self-portrait bust by the great turn-of-the century actress Sarah Bernhardt , who is less well known as a talented sculptress . |
| 43 | Earthworms , for instance , ingest and excrete huge volumes of soil , as so graphically reported in a classic study by Charles Darwin in the last century . |
| 44 | Behaviour and DNA are uncomfortable partners , for mind functions can not be so readily consigned to a molecular coding . |
| 45 | Then there is that warmed red billiard ball with its skin slit round the middle , so oddly known as a grilled tomato . |
| 46 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 47 | This is the first occasion when one of Palazzo Grassi 's exhibitions has been so closely linked with a Venetian public institution . |
| 48 | Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems . |
| 49 | Unlike , say , child sexual abuse , a long-standing reality only recently recognised as a major ‘ problem ’ , heroin use in Wirral has grown and become pathologised simultaneously . |
| 50 | Radio had only recently developed into a mass medium for news and entertainment . |
| 51 | The numbers of places in day nurseries ( the only state day-care provision ) declined steadily after the Second World War , and has only recently increased by a tiny amount . |
| 52 | In addition , the platelet-specific proteins β-thromboglobulin and platelet factor 4 were highly significantly elevated in a large group of hyperlipaemic subjects compared to normolipaemic controls ( Zahavi et al , 1981 ) . |
| 53 | This divergence would be most easily explained by a rising population and a consequent labour shortage . |
| 54 | The other advantages inherent in the strategy were that ( i ) it enabled the allied forces to capitalise on their superior mobility and air power by minimizing the possibility of becoming bogged down in a static war ; ( ii ) it made the allies less vulnerable to attack by chemical weapons , as such weapons were most easily used from a static defensive position against an enemy engaged in a frontal assault ; ( iii ) it offered the possibility of cutting off all forces within Kuwait and southern Iraq — including the Republican Guard — thereby enabling the allies to destroy Iraq 's military capability in addition to liberating Kuwait ; and ( iv ) it meant that the allies would capture a swathe of Iraqi territory , a potentially useful lever in the event of the negotiation and implementation of ceasefire conditions . |
| 55 | However , it is precisely where the infliction of grievous bodily harm has taken place that rape is most easily established under a traditional rape law , so that the absence of a non-consent requirement in these circumstances is not particularly significant . |
| 56 | More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence . |
| 57 | MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor . |
| 58 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 59 | The Russian Federation 's Congress of People 's Deputies had decided on April 5 to create a new , directly elected executive president of the Republic , an idea already overwhelmingly endorsed by a republican referendum held in March on the same day as the all-union referendum on the preservation of the USSR [ see pp. 38079 ; 38130-31 ] . |
| 60 | This individual , however , is not suddenly struck by a brilliant idea . |