Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [noun] 's [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He analyses most effectively Wellington 's perception of the interaction in a given situation between politics , diplomacy and military expediency ; but seldom as a piece of military history does it lift the spirit and stir the heart . |
2 | Secondly ( Chapter 3 ) , I shall examine not only Nizan 's resignation from the party and his subsequent death , but also his dramatic afterlife , a moment of political , ideological and cultural reproduction in which the complexity of his existence is obliterated beneath politically advantageous stereotypes : traitor , police spy , rebel , anti-hero . |
3 | The weak position of women in the labour market , and their responsibilities within the home as domestic workers and child rearers , affect not only women 's access to housing , but its structure and design . |
4 | She had a spare pair , which saved not only Eva 's eyesight on that occasion but throughout the remainder of her tour up to Shetland . |
5 | The exaltation of Jesus to the Father 's right hand is not only God 's vindication of his spreading from Jerusalem person and his achievement ; it is the precondition of the coming of his Spirit upon the witnesses who are to carry on his mission ( Acts 2:32f ) . |
6 | So it is not only Earth 's distance from the Sun that is important for living things , but the way the solid parts of the Earth are spread across the globe . |
7 | In saying this , it is likely that he had in mind not merely Lessing 's criterion of beauty , but his fundamental contrast between poetry and the visual arts . |
8 | I know he 's not exactly God 's gift to forensic science , but he 's a conscientious plodder and you 're not going to stimulate either his brain or his speed by bullying the poor little beast . |
9 | I could well understand why ; a ‘ Christian theosophist ’ or ‘ believing free-thinker ’ was not quite Eliot 's cup of tea . |
10 | Later , Deborah thought she understood more precisely Laura 's vision of company structure while she was abroad ; ‘ she had Moira to sell more , Meirion to produce more and me to do it better ’ . |
11 | Then I understood more fully Frankenstein 's quest in the storm of the previous night ! |
12 | Some administration proposals took deep cuts , most notably Bush 's request for four additional B-2 bombers . |
13 | Nor does his love of Three Oranges Suite have the bite we have now come to expect — but the music offers delicacy , too , and Danon brings out brilliantly Prokofiev 's debt to Ravel in the third movement . |
14 | It was n't only Chilcott 's promise of a tidy sum of money and six horses if he would take Topaz as his spouse which made Manfro want her . |
15 | Even then Dibich 's death from cholera on 29 May / 10 June 1831 slowed down the advance of the tsarist troops , but Paskevich had already been summoned from the Caucasus and eventual Russian victory was assured . |
16 | He 'd heard quite clearly Evans 's reference to his inside track with the Kriminalpolizei at Wiesbaden , to Kurt Meyer 's treachery . |
17 | To understand this remark it is necessary to appreciate how radically Wittgenstein 's conception of language , in the Investigations and Zettel , differs from that of John Locke . |
18 | Almost certainly Minton 's involvement with this subject was coloured by Benjamin Britten 's opera , Billy Budd , first performed in 195 1 , which , owing to his fascination with Peter Grimes , Minton would not have missed . |
19 | All girls together we may be in here , but she knows full well Lil 's position in the corporate hierarchy . |
20 | Yet even Peter 's ascendancy over the nobility must not be exaggerated . |
21 | One could say that Cristofori 's action , and therefore also Stein 's action in his vis-a-vis piano , are inverted down-striking actions . |
22 | One may dismiss too lightly Brezhnev 's insistence to Dubček that he would have invaded Czechoslovakia even at the cost of World War III . |