Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb base] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 4 | On the other hand , this point of view has to be balanced against those who protest that they only ever see politicians at election time and that if they do n't even call then they are undeserving of a vote . |
| 5 | Many sleeping pills , antihistamines and other drugs leave the user drowsy during the day , so always check labels for warnings about this side-effect . |
| 6 | So boldly mix mod with trad for eyecatching results and maximum flexibility . |
| 7 | As well as the traditional Christmas and New Year festivities , the Wine Festival , Flower Festival , Apple Festival and Carnival all now embrace activities to interest visitors . |
| 8 | → We so often receive letters from people slamming companies for poor service , that it 's nice to receive a letter from someone heaping praise upon a manufacturer for a job well done . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp . |
| 11 | Similarly , just as sociologists or some of them , develop revolutionary tendencies from time to time , so too do poets from Wordsworth to Blok . |
| 12 | Although some historians , often Marxists , have rejected this consensus , only recently have aspects of praxis , such as laboratory skills , been subjected to close and sustained study . |
| 13 | A decade after the end of the first post-war period in Britain ( that is , during the sharp oil price rise mentioned above ) social mobility was characterized both by heightening opportunities of rising socially , as well as increased risks of being caught in a downward spiral — particularly for those of working-class origin , who are among those who most easily fall prey to recruitment into the underclass . |
| 14 | Royal secrets , political scandal and life after Norm — the not so Everage housewife-turned-megastar from Down Under gets intimate . |
| 15 | You not only get reliability with microcontrollers , single chip microcomputers , but you get potentially a lot more flexibility . |
| 16 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 17 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 18 | Hence variations in mortality not only indicate variations in morbidity but also variations in the great need for services in caring for those with conditions with a high number of deaths . |
| 19 | These forces not only exclude women from unemployment statistics but also from ‘ legitimate ’ experiences of unemployment . |
| 20 | Railway and port facilities will be needed and higher levels of mine mechanization if coal production is to achieve levels which not only supply 70% of energy demand but afford an opportunity for exports . |
| 21 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 22 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |
| 23 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 24 | Such aggregations not only promote transmission of micro-organisms but through repeated exposure allow large doses of these . |
| 25 | At the outset this seems an onerous task , as not only do gallons of water lie on the sail but the wind is also trying to hold the sail down . |
| 26 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 27 | Once this happens , the medium is said to not only reduce ammonia/nitrite to nitrate , but go one step further and , by means of the anaerobic bugs , convert nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas . |
| 28 | At least she 'll do something positive and enrich the lives of thousands , not just torture people with guitars . |
| 29 | Third , since 1984 , unions in RENFE have won the right to negotiate over the level of minimum service , and management has not normally run services in excess of that level even if resources were available . |
| 30 | Their sellers meanwhile still await payment from Tajan . |