Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It matters not how many shirts and jumpers are tucked securely into the tightly tied waistband and excruciatingly buckled harness .
2 Yet Eliot seems to have been attracted even to the most unlikely sources , including even Conan Doyle 's ‘ The Musgrave Ritual ’ .
3 Animals kept in captivity for biomedical research are stressed even under the most humane conditions .
4 The separation of the Muftilik from the kadilik is an important step in the development of the institution and helps to confirm what has been said previously about the essentially religious nature of the Muftilik .
5 It is binding in its entirety and applicable simultaneously in all member States , and has been used mostly in the nationally sensitive area of agricultural policy .
6 This should not be particularly surprising since the main element has been price support for commodities such as grain and sugar which are produced principally in the more favoured farming areas .
7 ‘ But I 've been travelling hopefully in the meanwhile , ’ he said , ‘ and I 've got my first catalogue and two books ready . ’
8 Using everyday objects , basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young .
9 The converse , however , is the case , and the difference can probably be explained simply by the more widespread use of assay of α fetoprotein concentration during the period studied .
10 Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ …
11 The point will be of particular relevance in connection with causal sequences or causal chains , to be considered later in the most relevant context .
12 If crime and disorder follow a U-shape pattern of long-term change , the legitimacy of the police — the extent to which they are broadly accepted as valid in mission and methods — has followed an inverse path : an upside-down U. Starting from the widespread opposition encountered at the birth of the new police , opposition gradually came to be located primarily within the less ‘ respectable ’ sections of the working class , as well as in the wider working class during periods of labour conflict .
13 postmodernism is less liberating for some social groups than for others — though there is a point to be made here about the extremely close links between postmodernism as a general theoretical superstructure and camp as a specific homosexual practice .
14 Because potatoes do not absorb radioactive nucleotides , they are one of the few crops that could be grown safely in the heavily contaminated soils around Chernobyl .
15 The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses .
16 But they should be licensed and licences should be granted only under the most stringent conditions .
17 This new layout could not be dated precisely within the later first or early second century , though it may well have followed directly upon the final levelling of the military ditches , dated on pottery evidence to the late Flavian period .
18 Fourth and finally , the social composition of the Council — which had a tendency to be more upper class than the Assembly , and to be drawn more from the traditionally , almost professionally political families — must have inclined it to play the master not the servant .
19 Some observers say that charging on the basis of hours is too simple a method to be used exclusively in the increasingly complex business of auditing .
20 But it remained uncertain whether they were strong enough to create conditions in which peace could be negotiated even on the most minimal of their terms .
21 My whirlpool analogy can prove equally dangerous in its generalisation for there are innovators to be found even in the most remote schools .
22 The nature of this particular kind of identification and of the differences between the two versions can be illustrated even in the formally constructed prayerful episodes .
23 A spot can be generated directly without the normally preceding stages by a large localized disturbance , such as a rod or small jet momentarily injected through the wall or a small spark .
24 And those that do intend to hold onto them will be centred mainly in the traditionally more conservative financial community , and geographically , in Germany .
25 And those that do intend to hold onto them will be centred mainly in the traditionally more conservative financial community , and geographically , in Germany .
26 But do n't for one moment think that Munich should be left solely for the more seriously-minded visitor .
27 However , as Sperber and Wilson have shown , this traditional approach to communication can not be maintained even in the most ordinary , non-poetic cases .
28 As Lord Upjohn said in Phipps v. Boardman , at p. 123 : ‘ Rules of equity have to be applied to such a great diversity of circumstances that they can be stated only in the most general terms and applied with particular attention to the exact circumstances of each case . ’
29 It must be deployed also on the hitherto comparatively neglected first four years of the reign , that brief part of her life which is the only one which can be considered in any way typical for a reigning monarch .
30 Meals are eaten communally for the most part and we will meet together regularly for worship times .
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