Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries . |
| 2 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 3 | TAPPA ZUKIE 'S label always seems to bring out the best in Dennis Brown , and this gentle lilt through the miseries of ghetto life is Dennis ' best for a while . |
| 4 | It also fails to explain how the theoretical practice of science can be separated for the purposes of knowledge production from other practices that are the hallmark of ideology in Althusser 's account . |
| 5 | The digestive system of the cat is less successful in this respect and often fails to break down the dangerous elements in ingested substances to make them harmless . |
| 6 | Those parts of the Bill are vehicles for British Rail to do work that is publicly demanded but which it resolutely refuses to give even the slightest hint that it contemplates . |
| 7 | It is n't a good idea to draw a sketch first of how you want the finished work to look , since it never seems to look quite the same when it is finished . |