Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 2 | Having said all that , I think the interest erm of history lies in exactly the same kind of area as interest in the future , in the sense that we are dealing erm as historians with time , and , to use the old cliché , time marches on , it certainly moves , and the future , the present and the past do form some kind of continuum . |
| 3 | The first two examples discussed below illustrate different ways in which the linguistic model is used to develop a narrative model , and the third , Genette 's Narrative Discourse ( which does not use strictly linguistic analytical categories ) , illustrates somewhat differently the structuralist preoccupation with abstract models rather than with individual texts . |
| 4 | If you buy from a market stall that counts as b that counts in exactly the same way as buying from any other er high street retailer . |
| 5 | The neighbouring householder , however , earns only £15,000 — he lives in exactly the same sortof house , but has only half the income of his neighbour and , again , only one other person lives in the house , his non-working wife who brings in nothing . |
| 6 | We have had a marvellous season with thankfully no major accidents and also the best of racing , particularly at the Ulster Grand Prix and the Tandragee 100 , so perhaps we can be forgiven for forgetting that racing needs not only the top line competitors like Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid it needs the newcomers to help the sport thrive and we are just not getting enough of them . |
| 7 | This review covers not only the individual site needs but also items of group interest and company policy reviews . |
| 8 | The mode of entry described above covers not only the administrative class of the Home Civil Service , but also certain clerkships in the House of Commons , the administrative class of the Northern Ireland Civil Service , and the diplomatic service . |
| 9 | The Soviet Union has now been a socialist state for more than sixty years : many countries in Western Europe have been socialist for more than a quarter century ; and Asia has not only the Chinese experiment in socialism but other countries in Asia , Africa and the Americas have experimented with socialism . |
| 10 | A quarter of the Japanese population , some 30 million people , live in the most exposed area which also contains not only the vast bulk of the business community but also an alarming quantity of chemical plants . |
| 11 | No other material illustrates more vividly the political consternation and diplomatic uncertainty attendant on the accession of a new king . |
| 12 | In his discussion of the decay of English myth , he holds out only the slender hope of the music hall and laments that in general modern dramatists and probably modern audiences are ‘ terrified of the myth ’ . |
| 13 | Despite the uningratiating recording quality , Bernstein 's earlier NYPO ( Sony ) recording still casts a magnetic spell , even if certain details are pulled out of focus long the way ( the DG remake has n't quite the same sparkle and energy ) . |
| 14 | One wonders how long the old church can survive . |
| 15 | This is consistent with the observations of the microwave background radiation , which show that it has almost exactly the same intensity in any direction . |
| 16 | Greece thus offers not only the first instance of this change but also the essential one for any attempt to isolate the cultural consequences of alphabetic literacy ’ ( ibid. p. 42 ) . |
| 17 | In a bottlenecked life cycle , every fresh generation marches through approximately the same parade of events . |
| 18 | A wrongful possession of land for twelve years , or of goods for six years , destroys not only the former owner 's right to recover the land or goods by action , but also his title ; and so the possessor has the best of titles known to the law — a possession which no one can dispute . |
| 19 | And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of ‘ one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced ’ , as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the ‘ Encyclopaedia Britannica ’ . |
| 20 | For the England team , on whose success depends not only the financial viability of the counties themselves , but also the capacity of the game to attract young people to play and watch it as a part of their heritage , the preparation for Test cricket provided by the present hotch-potch is clearly unsatisfactory . |
| 21 | This cuts down both the necessary search and the number of candidates found to be allowable . |
| 22 | But these embarrassing infinities cancel out if the theory includes not only the weak force , but also the electromagnetic force , and two neutral carriers as well as the charged W particles . |
| 23 | But this class of molluscs includes not only the greatest number of living molluscan species , including those that have most successfully colonized land , but also some of their shells have a financial value that may even be out of proportion to their aesthetic qualities . |
| 24 | For any one such machine , the environment within which he or she is competing includes not only the natural environment in the form of air , light , water and food , but also other survival machines . |
| 25 | Needless to say , when developmental psychologists are studying language , the ‘ environment ’ includes not only the physical environment provided by objects and materials , but also the social environment provided by other people . |
| 26 | It is contended that , at least where the interpretation of " the term " includes not only the contractual term but also any period of holding over or extension of the contractual term , this could result in the landlord being entitled to review the rent on the day of the commencement of any period of holding over under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 . |
| 27 | At this stage , the patient often sees more clearly the appropriate course of action , whereas previously he was in a turmoil of indecision . |
| 28 | They follow a pattern in which each sentence ends nearly exactly the same way as it begins : |
| 29 | This , or a mini-survey — a modified scheme suggested by the RICS ( Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) — costs about twice the basic building society report and provides concise details on the state of repair and condition of the property you are intending to buy , together with an opinion of its open market value . |
| 30 | But the history of mid-century educational reform or the public health movement shows how partially the sanitary principle was actually enacted . |