Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The protein is mostly lost during the early stages of sweating and has detergent-like properties . |
| 2 | The County is mostly served by the Southern Electricity Board . |
| 3 | It is mostly found in the stronger astringents used for greasy skins . |
| 4 | Sub-littoral is mostly known as the submerged seas over the Continental Shelf ( see diagram ) . |
| 5 | The operation of the system is strikingly instanced in the secret visit to London of James Butler , Marquess ( later Duke ) of Ormonde [ q.v. ] , |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman knows that we are determined to sustain adult education , to extend it and to ensure that it is properly based in the local community . |
| 7 | It is to be hoped that it is properly tackled in the next Budget . |
| 8 | It is to be hoped that it is properly tackled in the next Budget . |
| 9 | What we seek is school management which more fully reflects this diversity of opinion , rather than what is widely seen as the inflexible dogma of the current approach . |
| 10 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 11 | As we have said , at least one modern authority maintains that the mausoleum in question is Priscillian 's , and this is widely accepted by the local populace as well . |
| 12 | At Marlborough College , where he runs what is widely recognised as the best art department at any school in Britain , his students have repeatedly achieved the highest A-grade results in the country . |
| 13 | We are lucky in this country that we have some of the better zoos , and indeed host what is widely recognised as the best , Jersey . |
| 14 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 15 | It is widely believed among the general public that dismissal of a Bank Official is rare and is usually associated with some act of dishonesty . |
| 16 | This is a time-consuming task as the information on software is widely distributed between the printed and institutional sources . |
| 17 | Low octane petrol is readily available almost everywhere , while paraffin is widely used in the third world . |
| 18 | This approach is widely used in the competitive sphere as David Hemery reports in The Pursuit of Sporting Excellence ( Collins , 1986 ) . |
| 19 | The Colon Classification is widely used in the Indian subcontinent , but the style of enumeration of subjects is not regarded as appropriate for Western libraries . |
| 20 | This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population , as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed . |
| 21 | The relatedness of fetal mortality to birth intervals is widely discussed in the relevant literature but , due perhaps to lack of reliable data even from developed countries , without resolution . |
| 22 | In many such systems the size of the gift is widely publicized within the local community ; here once again the greater the size of the gift , the greater the honour to the bride . |
| 23 | If political groups and parties atrophy into a façade behind which there hides nothing but the power struggles of bureaucrats in the party apparatus , then a pluralist , democratic society will be transformed into a mass of isolated individuals whose political thinking is uniformly directed by the mass media … |
| 24 | Others , and this is most telling in the religious context , abandoned Christianity and became Muslims . |
| 25 | Their use is most developed in the social insects , where each nest has a unique odour . |
| 26 | Ozone destruction is most pronounced over the Antarctic due to climatic and atmospheric extremes . |
| 27 | The practice of bondage , interestingly , is most associated with the early and joyless loss of virginity . |
| 28 | Indeed , it is my contention that this approach is most marked in the British case and that it constitutes the most significant aspect of British political culture . |
| 29 | The current imbalance between farming and conservation interests is most marked in the seven parks controlled locally by Conservative or Independent councils ; and it is particularly great at present because the Conservative administration returned in May 1979 has shown preference for farmers in its appointments . |
| 30 | This increase is presumably related to the increased alcohol consumption in the country . |