Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are one of those going on the Course you will have already received a letter stating the balance of fees , travel , insurance etc. due by the 15th April with a reminder that a contribution will be required in DM 's from those travelling in the coach from Frankfurt to Coburg . |
| 2 | Communities which suffer most from crime are often the most disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 3 | Once again , Botham won the toss and chose to field as the pitch looked as though it would be most lively on the first morning , and for the second time his decision could not really be criticized . |
| 4 | Not that all boards are n't fun — the funboard describes a group of boards which may be a little unstable during the first steps afloat , but can be used in higher winds allowing the sailor to develop techniques such as the use of footstraps to cope with the speed of sailing in strong winds . |
| 5 | A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to supply another undertaking which may be economically dependent on the first undertaking . |
| 6 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 7 | Liechtenstein 's economic performance during 1990 was less strong in the second half of the year but by the end of the year the number of jobs had nevertheless grown to 19,905 , an increase of 3.2 per cent as compared with 1989 . |
| 8 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 9 | It is not difficult to see why Julian has become so popular in the twentieth century and has inspired writers as different as T. S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch . |
| 10 | So what has made advertising so popular in the last number of years ? |
| 11 | and in who 's arms you 're gon na be so darling save the last dance for me . |
| 12 | Things are , however , somewhat different on the second repetition . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , they did not all take their studies very seriously and some of the bruising battle scenes , including a duel that went disastrously wrong on the first night , attracted misplaced laughter . |
| 14 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 15 | He boxed magnificently in the world senior championships in Finland , and was beating a top Cuban until things went disastrously wrong in the last round . |
| 16 | These wild-looking areas , often planted with fine conifers , were especially popular in the nineteenth century ; but wilderness gardens , informally laid out , also date from the eighteenth century , and even earlier — Henry VIII 's palace at Nonsuch in Surrey had one . |
| 17 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 18 | For them , nuclear weapons were regarded as an extension of artillery , which had been so crucial in the second world war . |
| 19 | A far broader question needs to be asked : Do we need this incredible amount of money spent on a minority culture when television in Scotland is so appalling in the first place ? |
| 20 | Three , however , were both characteristic of the general approach and especially central in the eighteenth century : the argument from causality , the argument from design , and the ontological argument . |
| 21 | The difference between the two groups however was less obvious in the second year of the course . |
| 22 | Though large families are less widespread in the twentieth century , the large family still remains vulnerable to poverty , if relatively less so than in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | If it were not so false in the first place , I would agree with you . |
| 24 | Within the southern suburb , many of the 1956–7 structures were apparently disused by the second half of the century , their footings being robbed out or cut by a new ditch alongside Ermine Street . |
| 25 | Granted what we know of the history of the city it is clear that the vast majority , as probably the similar multiplicity in many other English towns , were built between the tenth and the twelfth centuries , and that the multiplication of parish churches was especially characteristic of the eleventh century . |
| 26 | In fact , this can hardly be done in many cases because the animals concerned are nocturnal or are very well camouflaged ; but the stiffly mounted corpse on its studio stump , so characteristic of the eighteenth century , soon came to look dated . |
| 27 | What fuels such defensive reactions , whether against real or imaginary threats , is a combination of international population movements with the ultra-rapid , fundamental and unprecedented socio-economic transformations so characteristic of the third quarter of our century . |
| 28 | Raids were becoming so costly by the mid-eighteenth century that the imperial government began to undertake substantial fortification work along the southern marches which resulted in the erection of a series of connecting fortified lines ( lini ) which stretched from the southern Urals to Kuznetsk . |
| 29 | Yes it was at two down and the every time Palace went forward in the early stages you thought to yourself , here comes another goal because they looked like scoring , they were so dangerous , of course he 's a real threat and he got the better of for that first goal , er he was er danger all the time and er it was a little bit from er County 's performance in reverse to that of the previous week at Forest , where erm Palace were so good in the first half and er you would n't have been surprised if they 'd gone in two nil or even three nil ahead , the penalty brought Notts back into the game . |
| 30 | The 13 headfuls of ideas they 've got show occasional but disturbing signs of driving them aimlessly away from what makes them so good in the first place and into acid rock tedium city . |