Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the on/off switch , which thankfully has only the one task to perform . |
| 2 | A century ago Norway had perhaps 20 cattle breeds but today it effectively has only the Norwegian Red . |
| 3 | The ‘ Chicago ’ human capital approach ( e.g. Becker 1971 ; also see Mincer 1980 ) perhaps goes overboard the other way , seeing observed inequality as simply the reflection of current investments in human capital and returns to past investments . |
| 4 | Gretener went On to suggest a scale , based on a 95% probability of a particular event happening , as follows : Of course it does n't matter what we call them , but this merely illustrates how the rare event merges into the regular . |
| 5 | This not only affects how the male public react to policewomen in the province , it also influences how male colleagues treat policewomen in the work environment and the sorts of duties they are assigned in practice ; and the dearth of senior female officers makes it easy for male colleagues to impose such limits on the role of policewomen . |
| 6 | This not only clears away the excessive mucus , but also kills many of the parasites associated with a fluke infestation i.e. Whitespot , Trichodina Costia and Chilodonella . |
| 7 | Compact benefits students by offering them " value-added " jobs when they have attained their goals , and so opens up the realistic prospect of job satisfaction and career progression . |
| 8 | While the ‘ full accruals basis ’ , is undoubtedly prudent , we believe there is more commercial logic in accounting for such costs on an ‘ earnings ’ basis , which better reflects both the legal form and the substance of the transaction' . |
| 9 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |
| 10 | And David in , that psalm which we read earlier , in psalm twenty three , he paints the picture of how the good shepherd , not only seeks out the lost sheep but once he has brought him back , once he has rescued the , a lost sheep , he care for it . |
| 11 | Thus the same researcher not only carries out the basic work on a new product but — equally important — is out in the market-place looking for and trying to solve customer problems . |
| 12 | This normally involves either the United Association for the Protection of Trade ( UAPT ) , a non-profit organisation keeping records for its 12,000 members , or Credit Data ( CD ) , a commercial firm . |
| 13 | Our version of occam thus contains only the essential core needed to write simple programs . |
| 14 | Although it is still early in the Finn selection battle , Childerley already has easily the best record . |
| 15 | The Waterline , then , returns to its origins , as the case study which is Billy 's life painfully dredges up the first scenes of his disorder . |
| 16 | But it 's erm er the light just takes away the inner tube and the batteries Tony said he was a manager so he got that as a freebie so is that it ? |
| 17 | Yesterday it all came good for them with a thrilling five shot ( 78-73 ) victory over Old Bleach in the final at Jordanstown , a result that finally takes away the sour taste following their defeat by Bangor in last year 's final . |
| 18 | The reader thus gets both the historian's-eye view and a stage-by-stage account of the death of the multinational federation that Tito set up in 1945 and ruled until his death in 1980 . |
| 19 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 20 | It thus validates not the internal market but ‘ the power of a key ministerial priority and targeted additional funding . ’ |
| 21 | This certificate normally carries on the reverse side a form of renunciation . |
| 22 | The second link between the worlds of commerce and research effectively ends probably the British computer community 's longest running saga . |
| 23 | Furthermore , it is said , a defensive strategy based on such weapons effectively rules out the actual use of nuclear weapons . |
| 24 | This is embodied in the theory developed by Flory and Huggins , but still represents only the combinatorial contribution , whereas there are other ( non-combinatorial ) contributions to the entropy which come from the interaction of the polymer with the solvent and are much harder to quantify . |
| 25 | The return to my house is strained by the thought that he still has not the faintest idea where he is going . |
| 26 | If you are a person who usually eats roughly the same amounts each day , with regular meal times , a typical pattern will quickly reveal itself in the diary ; keep it for only seven days . |
| 27 | The term ‘ royal forest ’ always conjures up the wrong picture . |
| 28 | The Moon is in synchronous rotation around the Earth , and therefore within the limitations imposed by its orbit always shows much the same face to the Earth . |
| 29 | But the latter were clearly hopelessly reductionist in relation to a concept such as this which at once opens up the possible significances of what was once merely seen as the aesthetic . |
| 30 | It always takes up the same number of positions in the file name , and that 's useful as you shall see . |