Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warblers ' own young are turfed out of the deeply cupped reed nest by the cuckoo chick soon after it hatches and the foster parents find themselves feeding an enormous monster with a huge red gape and insatiable appetite — a monster which will eventually grow to three times their size . |
| 2 | It matters not how many shirts and jumpers are tucked securely into the tightly tied waistband and excruciatingly buckled harness . |
| 3 | Yet Eliot seems to have been attracted even to the most unlikely sources , including even Conan Doyle 's ‘ The Musgrave Ritual ’ . |
| 4 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 5 | You can tell that you have not been fobbed off with the more mature product by the size of the cuts and the pallor of the flesh . |
| 6 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 7 | This evaluation will consider whether the school is now more effectively educating its students , and whether the change has been carried out in the most efficient way . |
| 8 | By contrast , death and decay are speeded up in the equally characteristic Peter Greenaway film , A Zed and Two Noughts ( 1985 ) , set mainly in a zoo . |
| 9 | Animals kept in captivity for biomedical research are stressed even under the most humane conditions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unusually for a city hotel , it is set around a lovely , lush private garden where sun-loungers are set out around the wonderfully secluded swimming pool . |
| 14 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 15 | The gardens are laid out in the most elegant manner and both the paintings and furniture are surprisingly fine . |
| 16 | Using everyday objects , basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ … |
| 19 | The point will be of particular relevance in connection with causal sequences or causal chains , to be considered later in the most relevant context . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Using a non-brittle stone , such as jade , shaping could only be carried out by the infinitely more laborious process of grinding . |
| 22 | How is a totally new , totally comprehensive valuation of capital values — something that has never before been done in England and Wales — to be carried out within the dangerously tight timetable dictated by the Government 's electoral concerns ? |
| 23 | Of course , some sort of pattern can be teased out of the most disordered subject though it may take half a dozen attempts before a pictorial structure emerges ; such an unhurried approach is not always possible for the long distance traveller . |
| 24 | Crumbs of advantage , Bénezet had found , may be picked up in the most unexpected places . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The impression just described can be related moreover to the before/after idea which to has been seen to express in its other uses . |
| 28 | But they should be licensed and licences should be granted only under the most stringent conditions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |