Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither Pasok nor Synaspismos seemed capable of capitalizing on the unpopularity of the government 's austerity measures , and the ND did better than expected in the municipal elections of October 1990 [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 2 | Or , if they did , they knew better than to remonstrate with the grim-faced man behind her . |
| 3 | It is possible to use softer colours in an arrangement but only if separated from the variegated foliage by a stronger colour , otherwise the effect can be weak . |
| 4 | This chapter may be useful back-up material but ONLY if used with the up-to-time normal speech . |
| 5 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 6 | Most skin cancers are completely curable , especially if detected in the early stages . |
| 7 | This was , in fact , still many months of fighting away , but with the loss of the northern territories , the die was all but cast for the Second Republic . |
| 8 | Annie 's voice all but went off the chromatic scale when Kelly told her that she was turning down Ibn Fayoud 's invitation . |
| 9 | The forests of the Chimanimani mountains , on Zimbabwe 's border with Mozambique , which are among the most species-rich areas of Africa , have been all but destroyed during the 10 years in which the region has been under military control . |
| 10 | This approach to treatment , strong in the nineteenth century and all but eclipsed in the twentieth , is still waiting in the wings . |
| 11 | Clothing designers from the ‘ cutting edge ’ of their profession believe that slavery to fashion will all but disappear in the Nineties . |
| 12 | She was already running down the beach , calling : ‘ Come on , Christina ’ , her voice all but drowned by the crashing waves . |
| 13 | But for me it 's the smaller scale works that really succeed : Harle 's enjoyable arrangement of Ellington/Mills 's Caravan for example is more like an Intercity 125 than a rolling camel train , while the exoticism of Isfahan ( from the ‘ Far East Suite ’ — available on RCA Bluebird , by the way ) is all but drowned in the sweet smell of strings ; compare to Ellington 's original spicy reeds ! |
| 14 | PPB was all but abandoned by the incoming Nixon administration and in 1973 the US government adopted a system of management by objectives ( MBO ) . |
| 15 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 16 | In this context his concept of instinct , especially as applied to the sexual instincts , is useful . |
| 17 | At the halfway stage in the backswing , the left wrist should be facing straight outwards as shown in the main illustration above . |
| 18 | Only when restricted by the sharp lines of formality does it seem at rest . |
| 19 | VAT on domestic fuel will come in as detailed in the last budget . |
| 20 | If we are habitually pulling back our heads , so as to interfere with the Primary Control , then the implications are very serious indeed . |
| 21 | On these grounds , Acts of Parliament which inadvertently contradict elements of Community law are modified so as to comply with the European Communities Act . |
| 22 | The environmental assessment prepared for the private Bill has been updated so as to comply with the new Standing Order . |
| 23 | How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ? |
| 24 | Held , allowing the appeal and the cross-appeal , that under the terms of the mortgage and other deeds the defendants were entitled to recover their actual costs , charges and expenses except for any costs that had not been reasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount ; that both litigation and non-litigation costs could be referred to a taxing for quantification ; that the defendants were contractually entitled to payment on an indemnity basis as defined by R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) ; that the court 's discretion as to the basis of taxation of a mortgagee 's costs , charges and expenses should normally be exercised so as to correspond with the contractual entitlement ; and that , accordingly , the master had power to order that the contractual costs , charges and expenses and the costs incurred in the litigation be taxed on an indemnity basis including those costs ordered to be taxed on a standard basis ( post , pp. 735E–F , 736B–C , 737E–F , 739A–C , 741H — 742D , E–H ) . |
| 25 | Walsingham and Knighton also attempted to blame Wyclif and the Lollards for propagating revolt , but this must be seen only as scaremongering by the established order in the Church , attempting to tar the socially conservative academic heretic with the brush of revolution . |
| 26 | The advantages of open access are significant , especially when applied to the European Community opportunities . |
| 27 | Science is a ‘ lower priority subject ’ especially when viewed through the distorted lens of selection examinations . |
| 28 | However using the lexicon car , cars , cat , cats , do , dog , dogs , done , ear , ears , eat , eats ( after Appel and Jacobson ) , the features of the dawg can be clearly demonstrated , especially when compared with the equivalent trie . |
| 29 | Harsh criticism was also levelled at Contributions Agency staff , especially when compared with the Inland Revenue . |
| 30 | It is a common complaint of educational technologists ( self-styled ) that people still think of them as " something to do with machines " , or " audio-visual-aids people " , and most books and articles on educational technology spend valuable space on definitions , especially when addressed to the lay reader . |