Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 2 | He nodded slowly to himself , then looked up and across at the lace-curtained window , like a bird perhaps suddenly spotting the open door of its cage . |
| 3 | I 'm only just getting the bad taste out of my mouth — I was ashamed of myself , and of us all . ’ |
| 4 | The adoral shields are large prominent about twice as long as broad and only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 5 | The adoral shields are long wing-like and flared distally separating or only just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 6 | If you compare when we first came to Harlow , which is only twenty years ago , the possession of a television set , erm was only just becoming the normal thing |
| 7 | Alzheimer 's Disease ( AD ) is particularly pernicious in apparently gradually destroying the very essence of personality . |
| 8 | One obstacle has been the obsessive discretion of their methods of operation , so appropriately reflecting the imperial mystique which inspired them ; another has been a certain scholarly reluctance to welcome the suggestion that this informal study group composed of intellectuals and men of affairs , who almost never held elective office , and who indeed generally despised it , exercised any significant influence at all . |
| 9 | Harry was no longer looking at him , but felt sure he had leaned forward across his desk , as if their discussion were only now taking the desired direction . |
| 10 | The reaction to female ministers is a prime example of how the Church is only now entering the 20th Century kicking and screaming . |
| 11 | She had of course questioned the decision that had left her heiress to Tara , while Fergus , so indisputably a leader , so plainly possessing the natural authority Grainne believed she lacked , was relegated to the command of the Fiana . |
| 12 | But such cases are exceptions , sometimes perhaps simply reflecting the relative lack of satisfaction of needs on the outside ( especially in the case of the ‘ choice ’ of prison ) . |
| 13 | The subject under scrutiny in the 1990/91 survey was exporting to Japan and in particular the barriers that companies felt they faced in either entering the Japanese market or expanding their level of existing business . |
| 14 | That driver of the Rover ( with a dog in the back seat ) is looking calm — Sitting back — almost smiling — perhaps actually enjoying the enforced pause . |
| 15 | On Jan. 26 the Council of Ministers decided to abolish the law introduced in 1983 which restricted the use of languages other than Turkish , thus effectively recognizing the Kurdish language . |
| 16 | I recently read Stacey 's study of the council , published with its blessing and undertaken by the same means of ‘ participant observation , ’ albeit not apparently requiring the same degree of deception . |
| 17 | The staff profiles presented in Chapter 2 indeed confirmed that the average volunteer is a woman in her late forties , but studies have also highlighted a wide spread of ages , with paid staff not necessarily lowering the average age . |
| 18 | In trying to persuade to move away from arrangements which utilize those bearings we 're effectively trying to do ourselves a favour , because we can not provide those bearings , but we 're not necessarily offering the optimum engineering solution , or maybe even the total cost solution in certain applications |
| 19 | If , however , the shares are expressly divided into separate classes ( thus necessarily contradicting the presumed equality ) it is a question of construction in each case what the rights of each class are . |
| 20 | As a result , research in this area is not only clarifying the possible role of prerequisite abilities and environmental support , but it is also resulting in some very strong indications that infants are , to a remarkable degree , pre-adapted to the kinds of learning necessary for language acquisition ( for example , see Gleitman and Wanner 1982 ) . |
| 21 | This includes not only documenting the sectoral pattern of activity in cities , but also an appraisal of the consequences in terms of job opportunities for different groups within the economically active population . |
| 22 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 23 | For example , Turnock ( 1968 ) in a study of northeast Scotland found that depopulation in the area was not only a function of a retreat from hill farming but also a process of concentration into fewer but larger settlements , and Johnston ( 1965 ) in a study of northern England found that village size was important in not only retaining the existing population but also attracting newcomers from nearby towns . |
| 24 | Hazard research , like few other GIS application areas , is not only stretching the present technology to its limits but is a quite remarkable focus of international effort into several important research-related areas such as expert systems and simulation studies . |
| 25 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 26 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 27 | The CEGB was not just briefing the Daily Telegraph . |
| 28 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 29 | But the sellers were not normally asking the maximum wage which the traffic would bear and offering in return the minimum quantity of labour they could get away with . |
| 30 | It provided a subtle bridge to the promised land of successful survival : not overtly trumpeting the triumphant rebirth of conspicuous consumption , but nevertheless easing in an almost unconscious separation from raging youth . |