Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It is usually much more successful to choose either a very pale background that contrasts with medium to dark colours , or a very dark background that sets off very pale and silvery grey shades . |
2 | Birds of Prey does allow you to limit the choice of airplanes to make them more appropriate to the mission type , but it is only too easy to select totally the wrong plane and/or payload for the task in hand . |
3 | Bassano 's book was published in Venice , however , and Venice-where ‘ music had her very own home ’ as Francesco Sansovino claimed in his Venetia , citta nobilissima et singolare ( Venice , 1581 ) — was politically at odds with the papacy during the latter part of the century and was shortly afterwards able to defy successfully a papal interdict . |
4 | She , 17 years his senior , was ebullient , romantic and far too impatient to spend even a minute searching for the perfect phrase when a cliché would do . |
5 | In an introductory discussion of the kind undertaken in this chapter it is simply not possible to discuss comprehensively the various forms , spheres and agencies of racism that operate in British society , for example , those deriving from the state 's implementation of increasingly tighter immigration controls as well as nationality legislation , or We activities of some sections of the police ( Dummett , 1982 ; Gordon and Klug , 1985 ; Benyon , 1986 ) . |
6 | Service industries are now in a worse predicament than ever , because it is no longer possible to register even a business name in Britain . |
7 | An account of society in terms of practices which may ‘ complement ’ or ‘ undermine ’ each other is therefore potentially able to provide both a social theory , and a theory of history , since it gives us a way of analysing the relations between practices at a particular time and the conditions in which they change . |