Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six-member jury ( composed of four women and two men ) deliberated for 77 minutes before concluding in Smith 's favour and thereby ending one of the most widely reported trials in US history . |
| 2 | In this respect they were typical of most industrially employed women in Scotland at the time ( see Table 6b ) . |
| 3 | And Charlie was probably the most highly paid chauffeur in London . |
| 4 | It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) . |
| 5 | An extreme climate and thin , stony soils made the windy plateaux ( the páramos ) of Teruel and Huesca the most sparsely populated parts of Spain . |
| 6 | The county is 100 miles long and my constituency is the most sparsely populated area of Cornwall . |
| 7 | It 's all right to build bridges with South Africa , but if bridges are falling down in Wales something must be done about it . ’ |
| 8 | This is followed by presentation of the much less appreciated production of Prague and Germany , France and the Gobelins , and the Bourbons in Madrid and Naples . |
| 9 | In 1469 , during the reign of James III , Scotland was first described as an ‘ Impyre ’ — sixty-four years before the much better known claim of Henry VIII to the same effect . |
| 10 | The aim of the single market is to integrate progressively the distinct national markets which have for so long characterised trade between EC member states , with the object of providing opportunities for economic growth irrespective of the location of producer , supplier , wholesaler , retailer or customer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We conclude that minimal sedation with midazolam alone still produces hypoxia during ERCP in a substantial number of elderly patients . |
| 13 | This time it was his wine collection , housed in specialy built cellars of Headington Hill Hall in Oxford ; the wine , over 3,000 bottles is being sold off by administrators . |
| 14 | Individuals can only exceptionally bring claims against States in the international arena through mechanisms granted by treaty , or developed through the practice of international organisations . |
| 15 | The government has not so far given ground on Mozambique , and has insisted that it is committed to keeping its troops in Cambodia . |
| 16 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 17 | ‘ Black magic ’ is apparently now considered racist in America so the term ‘ Chinaman ’ must also be the same , ’ Professor Jones said . |
| 18 | Though violence sometimes occurs at American sporting contests , it is seldom of a comparable scale and intensity to the football hooliganism which so often takes place in Britain , West Germany , the Netherlands and Latin America ( Guttmann , 1986 ; Smith , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Senator Bill Bradley , of New Jersey , a possible Democratic candidate for the 1992 presidential elections , only narrowly secured re-election against Christine Todd , his little-known and underfinanced Republican challenger . |
| 20 | The Haug company had long ago established links with London , trading in textiles , and in doing so developing relationships with politicians , and with the Crown , by allowing credit . |
| 21 | We discuss whether the regions containing these apparently developmentally programmed patterns of DNase I hypersensitive sites reflect the action of a locus control region ( LCR ) by conferring tissue-specific , position-independent , copy-dependent expression on a wild-type Ea gene . |
| 22 | Many bishops of the Late Roman period had earlier in their careers been notable civil servants ; best-known is Ambrose of Milan , but Germanus of Auxerre provides a fine example from Gaul , so too does Gregory of Langres , whose episcopate extended into the sixth century . |
| 23 | Similarly , just as sociologists or some of them , develop revolutionary tendencies from time to time , so too do poets from Wordsworth to Blok . |
| 24 | Davie 's tribute applies still more precisely to his own writing in Under Briggflatts , a book whose perspicacity , range of learning and pitiless eye for cant can leave little doubt which modern critic most richly deserves comparison with Samuel Johnson . |
| 25 | Royal secrets , political scandal and life after Norm — the not so Everage housewife-turned-megastar from Down Under gets intimate . |
| 26 | The exhibition will not only show life in Bentley during the past 150 years , but also that of Froyle , concentrating on the development of both village schools , culminating in their merger in 1986 . |
| 27 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 28 | In point of time , however , one can find the specific civilian proposition from the US Ambassador in Paris a week earlier , on 11 December , not only to extend aid to Vietnam from the President 's special $75 m. fund but also recommending direct ‘ Marshall plan ’ financing for Indo-China : which the French had tentatively asked for at the beginning of 1949 . |
| 29 | Estates Services are not only providing accommodation for AEA staff , at Harwell they also have some unofficial tenants — a family of little owls . |
| 30 | 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 . |