Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems rather unnecessary to introduce the negative sentence ( 2b ) into a consideration of the relationship between ( 2a ) and ( 2c ) which arises in the conversation presented earlier in ( I ) . |
| 2 | At the beginning of February 1990 cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , caused one death in Tonga and T$4,000,000-worth of damage . |
| 3 | Cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , struck Western Samoa on Feb. 1 , 1990 , leaving seven people dead , 10,000 homeless and WS$306,000,000-worth of damage . |
| 4 | At the beginning of February 1990 cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , caused US$2,500,000-worth of damage on Niue . |
| 5 | Indeed , so strong have the differential views on advantageous locations become that one recent assessment of the total stock of foreign capital in developing countries suggests that it is less today than it was in 1900 , measured in relation to GNP ( Maddison , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | It is only possible to highlight the basic points and common principles in this chapter . |
| 7 | A crowd then assembled and threw pepper at the police , causing such a commotion that it was only possible to get the one-legged prisoner to the police station with the assistance of twelve constables . |
| 8 | Well I have to say straight away that I 've erm worked on a Council with the Labour Party in opposition with us , and now with the Labour Party in Government with us with us a very small group , and I have to say it 's much preferable to have the Labour Party in power than to have the Conservative Party in power as far as we 're concerned , because at local level the sort of things that we want to do — providing better services , caring of people , all those sort of things — we do n't disagree . |
| 9 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 10 | As the value of the dinar sinks , the interest paid by the final borrowers in dinars becomes less and less adequate to pay the foreign exchange interest . |
| 11 | The farm worker , in many respects , has yet to achieve his place in the sun , but he is also less willing to accept the low status which the rest of society seems to offer him . |
| 12 | As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims . |
| 13 | In a liquid the motion and thus the kinetic energies of particles are sufficiently high to prevent the attractive forces holding the particles together in a crystal lattice . |
| 14 | Only those particles with kinetic energies sufficiently high to overcome the attractive forces between the particles in the liquid can escape . |
| 15 | At Châtillon the Old King was apparently willing to accept the proposed exchange and this might explain why Richard rounded on Philip , calling him a " vile recreant " . |
| 16 | It is interesting that the Treasury was only willing to publish the White Paper in the autumn of each year after rather than before the hard decisions fur the third year had been taken , and made no commitment to publish the Medium Term Economic Assessment , actually refusing to do so in 1971 . |
| 17 | Says Dana Stuchell at Trans-Species , ‘ We believe that it 's morally wrong to alter the genetic material of species . |
| 18 | When the spread basis was sufficiently non-zero to cover the estimated transactions costs , simulated spread arbitrage transactions were initiated . |
| 19 | " [ T ] he language of an exemption clause is prima facie to be construed against the person who drafted it or put it forward … [ and ] the language of an exemption clause must be sufficiently explicit to disclose the common intention of the parties without straining the language " ( Cumming-Bruce LJ in Acme Transport Co Ltd v Betts [ 1991 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 ) . |
| 20 | As long as Corinth led the Peloponnesians , Athens had the best of it , though she was sufficiently alarmed to build the Long Walls , which secured communications between Athens and her harbour city of Piraeus : in future , Spartan invasions would not cut Athens off from the sea ( Thuc. i. 107 ) . |
| 21 | Though forty-five causes were entered in the list for the March session , ‘ so efficacious did the mere issuing of the summons prove , that this number was reduced by a third before the opening of the court . ’ |
| 22 | This might have been less dangerous had the Ottoman Empire held together , but it was crumbling fast and something was bound to take its place . |
| 23 | The party was greatly relieved to get the whole business over and done with . |
| 24 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 25 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
| 26 | It is easy to understand this , but it 's not so easy to evaluate the different elements of theatre training , and see just how they contribute to the making of that elusive thing , ‘ a compleat actor ’ . |
| 27 | It 's so easy to marry the wrong person . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , I was so delighted to celebrate the mere existence of this euphoria that , as a reader pointed out , I made no attempt to analyze exactly what it was about the theme parks that had produced it . |
| 29 | I MISSED the first performance of Peter Thompson 's Chinese Lantern Music at last year 's Summer Serenade , was so delighted to hear the complete work — the third in a series of commissions for local composers — played by the Petersfield Area Youth Orchestra on Wednesday . |
| 30 | Being in a state of readiness for the unpredictable does seem to result in it being less easy to use the quiet periods of duty time productively , which includes relaxing and taking care of oneself . |