Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 2 | Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing — and drawing the figure especially . |
| 3 | From the token half dozen kits from Malaysia we can also see not only the difference in basic shape , but also the lavishly conspicuous consumption of gold paint to provide an overall decoration of either flowers or clouds . |
| 4 | He also claims that negligence finding was made without evidence being led demonstrating the manner in which he did not reach the professionally required standard of care . |
| 5 | Here are ranged such organizations as the National Association of Language in Education Centres ( NALEC , 1985 ) on the one hand , whose membership commands direct access through professional development teachers and initial training lectures to classroom teachers and who take the predominantly phenomenological approach to language of ‘ reading through real books ’ . |
| 6 | Ismael Hassan Metareum , from the predominantly Moslem province of Aceh in northern Sumatra , was seen as a relative moderate , acceptable to both the armed forces and the government . |
| 7 | But with the vastly experienced Imran in tandem with the brilliantly fluent Inzamam-ul-Haq the revised target of 193 off 36 overs suddenly looked possible . |
| 8 | In a short study it is impossible to deal in depth with the vastly complex web of politics that surrounded Barbarossa ; a glance at the list of popes shows just how complex the situation was ; hardly had any pope become established and negotiations opened , than another was taking his place . |
| 9 | In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic , fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948 . |
| 10 | The vastly increased use of Place of Safety Orders — a quarter of all admissions in one study ( Millham et al. , 1986 ) , a third in another ( Packman et al . , |
| 11 | For one thing Barthes 's perverse perspective on difference foregrounds a different history , one wherein there is no simple privileging of the marginal : the paradoxically perverse interrelationship between centre and margins , whereby the marginal returns to the centre in a way which disarticulates the centre/margin binary itself , is signified , in this instance , by Barthes inaugurating his professorship with a lecture on the significance of perversity vis-à-vis language . |
| 12 | This provides the reason why it was once extensively cultivated in the Aube , where its more southerly location and lack of limestone subsoil sometimes renders wines lacking the desirably high degree of acidity required for classic Champagnes . |
| 13 | DAVID BRYANT 'S retirement from international bowls competition at the age of 61 signals the end of the mostly gentlemanly revolution in sport . |
| 14 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 15 | The bill identifies much of the blame for the tremendously high rate of deforestation in India as belonging to the adivasis or tribal peoples , who have been systematically marginalised and impoverished for over a thousand years , and who have now retreated into the mountains and remaining forests of central India ( a close-up case study is provided of a tribal group , the Sora , in sect. 7.4 ) . |
| 16 | Underlying her concern is the widely differing approach to discrimination north and south of the border . |
| 17 | The one big difference lies in the fundamentally rural character of feudalism . |
| 18 | It is this emphasis on supplementary rather than substitute care ( Davis , 1981 ) , growing out of a recognition of the fundamentally shared nature of parenting , which should be the driving force behind a new direction for child care policy . |
| 19 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 20 | " The basis of such a union " was " the social market economy … determined particularly by private ownership , the free establishment of prices and the fundamentally full freedom of movement of labour , capital , goods and services " . |
| 21 | The World Health Organisation 's definition that health is a state of complete physical , mental , and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity redresses the medically biased emphasis on disease or infirmity . |
| 22 | By 1902 her fame as a hard-headed , cigar-smoking , businesswoman , capable of holding her own with the shrewdest of her male rivals in the intensely competitive world of industry , had already won her recognition ( from the Pall Mall Gazette ) as ‘ one of the most remarkable women in Great Britain' , famous enough to be caricatured by the Punch cartoonist , Bert Thomas , in the comic journal Ally Sloper in 1904 . |
| 23 | From the producers ' point of view , the powerfully addictive quality of sugar became an important asset , resulting in an almost infinitely elastic demand . |
| 24 | The significant sentence read as follows : ‘ The part of the father , played by an actor unfamiliar to me , Charles Paris , grows in stature through the evening until the powerfully climactic scene of confrontation with his daughter . ’ |
| 25 | And , to the cynically analytical mind which Charles usually applied to praise , the review could be read to mean that the part grew in stature until the powerfully climactic scene of confrontation with his daughter , at which point , in the hands of this actor , it diminished considerably . |
| 26 | Labour productivity in the overwhelmingly preponderant sector of society , subsistence agriculture , was very low , so any net surplus was small . |
| 27 | It is the location of central government , of the headquarters of many major firms , and it is , as will be seen in Chapter 3 , the overwhelmingly dominant centre of banking and finance ; it is the home of ‘ the City ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ If it rains , ’ he said gloomily , ‘ if it rains that heap will set like mixed concrete and we 'll never be rid of it' ; and though there was no sign of a break in the weather he covered the slowly diminishing heap at night with clear plastic , weighted down with stones . |
| 29 | The pulsar is a member of the slowly growing class of millisecond pulsars with low-mass companions . |
| 30 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |