Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 2 | ( b ) those details and examples that seem most successfully to illustrate the main points . |
| 3 | The engineering emphasis will be on the search for mechanisms which can most effectively perform the required functions with the human operator in a support role undertaking functions which are not readily mechanised . |
| 4 | IBM Corp yesterday stepped up its pitch for OEM business , most strikingly offering an enhanced version of the 9371 microprocssor-based Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor , so that designers can build 370-compatibility into workstations via a co-processor.The company 's Entry Systems Technology — Personal Systems business unit is also offering some of IBM 's handwriting recognition products to third parties , including technology that recognises both script and block capitals ; and in addition to the currently available PenPoint version , ThinkWrite will be available this year in versions that run under OS/2 and Windows for Pen Computing . |
| 5 | The conduct of the by-election was investigated by the central Election Commission , which , in an unprecedented decision on March 7 , countermanded the by-election on the grounds of electoral malpractice , thereby effectively ordering a full re-poll . |
| 6 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 7 | From somewhere below came a great rending and echoing squeal of torn metal . |
| 8 | Most only need a small angle of bank , as the rudders on gliders are not very powerful . |
| 9 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 10 | It was through his West Indian interests that his career most obviously spanned the great divide of 1660 . |
| 11 | The primary products in which the UK has most obviously become a net exporter are oil and gas . |
| 12 | The law of affinity , as defined by the popes , most obviously affected the political marriage-makers , the aristocracy . |
| 13 | Take the crack through these then traverse delicately leftwards to reach a good ledge . |
| 14 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 15 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 16 | Mr Moss Evans 's union , the Transport and General Workers , had called the lorry drivers out on the strike that a reading of contemporary newspapers suggests was the event , seen as characteristic of the abuse by trade unions of their power , that most vividly exposed the vacuity at the heart of policy and so most damaged the Labour Government 's prestige and prospects . |
| 17 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 18 | I sometimes turn the possibility of this over in my mind , but only rarely does a suitable piece of information present itself . |
| 19 | But whereas calypso now only rarely contains a political message reggae almost always does . |
| 20 | The Cartesian cogito — cogito ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) — conventionally if somewhat simplistically marks a major point in the emergence of Western individualism . |
| 21 | They so often have long since lost the literal meaning of their origins , and thus they are frequently capable of causing gross confusion and comic misunderstanding . |
| 22 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 23 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 24 | The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land . |
| 25 | While their challenge was clearly the most serious to have been presented to President Ceausescu , and was made with the full knowledge of important facts , it was also made by people who have long since left the political scene , mainly having retired , or been retired — prematurely — by Mr Ceausescu . |
| 26 | She who had long since learned the necessary control to hide her feelings was about to suffer the greatest humiliation of all , the fall of angry tears which would betray her sensitivity , leaving her naked and vulnerable before this man whom she had begun to trust … åd his friends … |
| 27 | But he 'd still much rather have a new pair of football boots at Christmas . |
| 28 | I 'd much rather have a plain name I know what they 're talking about then . |
| 29 | Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk . |
| 30 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |