Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their behaviour contrasted starkly to the more traditional image of Party members as simple-living , self-sacrificing people . |
| 32 | The transformation went far beyond the narrowly economic ; it wrought a fundamental change in the structure and behaviour of village society and reduced rural discontent to a genuinely low level . |
| 33 | Hope walked across to one of the biggest stones and examined its blank surface close up with the most scrupulous attention until the Colonel and his ward had quit the field . |
| 34 | A POLICEMAN shot twice in the back early today may have disturbed an IRA bomb plot , senior officers believe . |
| 35 | One popular route started off from the highly reactive unsaturated hydrocarbon , ethylene ( or ethene ) , H 2 C=CH 2 , which was readily and cheaply available from petroleum refineries . |
| 36 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 37 | Will Douglas ordered Scott of Rankilburn to go back to the now blazing village , the cottage thatches burning readily , and round up a crowd of men , women and children . |
| 38 | The month kicks off with the Not-So Innocent Bystanders ' production of ‘ 3 Steps to Heaven ’ , a new music theatre piece by writer/performer Helen Trew , and directed by local actor Richard Orr . |
| 39 | Rest your hand on it and one 's palm fits snugly over the comparatively wide and tall top surface . |
| 40 | And it is true that if , for example , there were a library catering specifically for the mentally retarded , this would be the first to be closed because it would create the greatest publicity . |
| 41 | It took eighteen years before the game moved officially to the appropriately proletarian environment of Australia . |
| 42 | As a result the paper came out with the most terrifying remarks allegedly made by Baldwin about some of the political figures of the day , notably Beaverbrook , but also Lloyd George and others . |
| 43 | Your use of paint varies enormously from the very thin to the highly impastoed . |
| 44 | Your use of paint varies enormously from the very thin to the highly impastoed . |
| 45 | This seems to have emerged with greatest sharpness in an area marked simultaneously by the most advanced commercial wealth in Europe and the absence of an established State : the seventeen provinces of the Low Countries , the possessions of the Habsburg dynasty . |
| 46 | FROM my childhood , I remember clearly my aunt suffering daily from the most common problem of the menopause , the hot flush . |
| 47 | The vertebrate fossils could thus be arranged in a historical sequence running through from the most ancient to the most recent geological periods . |
| 48 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 49 | Taking their lead from the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ of American journalism , a more colourful , gossipy style of writing took over from the rather self-consciously poetic late Victorian style with its ‘ hapless custodians ’ and ‘ leather spheroids ’ . |
| 50 | The exhibition moves on to the recently refurbished Guggenheim Museum in New York on 9 September . |
| 51 | Today , Sartre 's voluntarism is to some extent returning to favour as the result of a desire to retrieve the categories of agency and the subject , which goes together with the wish to get out of the apparently totalizing systems of Adorno , Althusser or Foucault . |
| 52 | Norman Pinder subsided in a tangled mass of limbs , and his chair shot backwards over the highly polished parquet floor . |
| 53 | Such an argument runs rather against the more usual one that science , in the long run , reduces uncertainty . |
| 54 | He was all the more striking because the boast that he ran his papers just to make money contrasted strongly with the more complex motives , combining profit with politics , that were still typical of the proprietors of the early 1960s . |
| 55 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 56 | What you yo were trying to achieve is the expansion of the built up area towards the ring road , and thereby having built development hard up er as it is at the moment the ring road goes through for the most part open countryside on either side of it . |
| 57 | It is the constellation of those beliefs , attitudes and values that influence sub-groups in society to behave differently from the generally expected norms of behaviour . |
| 58 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 59 | ‘ This rather formal approach contrasts neatly with the more informal approach generally adopted by central governments in their relations with local authorities in the years up to 1979 ’ . |
| 60 | Enmity arising out of the often inordinate emphasis laid on sports by some teachers is quite commonplace amongst black kids ; much less so amongst whites . |