Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) those details and examples that seem most successfully to illustrate the main points . |
| 2 | The engineering emphasis will be on the search for mechanisms which can most effectively perform the required functions with the human operator in a support role undertaking functions which are not readily mechanised . |
| 3 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 4 | It was through his West Indian interests that his career most obviously spanned the great divide of 1660 . |
| 5 | The law of affinity , as defined by the popes , most obviously affected the political marriage-makers , the aristocracy . |
| 6 | Mr Moss Evans 's union , the Transport and General Workers , had called the lorry drivers out on the strike that a reading of contemporary newspapers suggests was the event , seen as characteristic of the abuse by trade unions of their power , that most vividly exposed the vacuity at the heart of policy and so most damaged the Labour Government 's prestige and prospects . |
| 7 | They so often have long since lost the literal meaning of their origins , and thus they are frequently capable of causing gross confusion and comic misunderstanding . |
| 8 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 9 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 10 | The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land . |
| 11 | While their challenge was clearly the most serious to have been presented to President Ceausescu , and was made with the full knowledge of important facts , it was also made by people who have long since left the political scene , mainly having retired , or been retired — prematurely — by Mr Ceausescu . |
| 12 | She who had long since learned the necessary control to hide her feelings was about to suffer the greatest humiliation of all , the fall of angry tears which would betray her sensitivity , leaving her naked and vulnerable before this man whom she had begun to trust … åd his friends … |
| 13 | Only slowly did the various industries realise that they had to better the ‘ lot ’ of their workers and reduce the occupational risk . |
| 14 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
| 15 | Suddenly in marched the gigantic figure of the Headmistress in her belted smock and green breeches . |
| 16 | In this way traditional theory ‘ explains ’ in the absence of experience ( i.e. in abstraction ) and so merely confirms the ideological categories given to its consciousness . |
| 17 | It was thought that if the balls of soft paste were boiled , long enough to toughen the outer surface , but not for too long so that the inner remained soft , there would still be plenty of flavour left in the bait to serve its purpose , and sufficient toughness to make it extremely difficult for a smaller fish to take the bait in smaller portions . |
| 18 | For most people it seems that it is necessary to stay long enough to enjoy the bad weather as well as the good , to gain a true appreciation of the countryside . |
| 19 | Some stances may be held for only a fraction of a second , just long enough to provide the correct arrangement of balance , position and technique availability . |
| 20 | Despite the urgency of the summons , he had been kept waiting in Stevenson 's outer office long enough to read the early edition of the Evening Standard . |
| 21 | Formal research into the headaches began in 1970 and , until now , no-one has followed up patients for long enough to determine the natural course of the condition . |
| 22 | Installed in the power supply to the immersion heater , a push-button sets an electronic timer long enough to heat the average household hot water cylinder . |
| 23 | Supporting her with his right arm , his left hand strayed from her breasts to her thigh , and from there slowly completed the journey to the mouth of the Cave of Sweet Mysteries , lingering long enough to find the little temple of Min and arouse him as she began to gasp for breath , her tongue making passionate sallies into his ear . |
| 24 | Pausing just long enough to sweep the old man 's triumphant face with an antagonistic look , Beth turned from them both and went , head high , out of the room and into the hallway , where the late March sunshine found its way through the tall arched windows , and where the air seemed relatively fresh compared to the musty damp smell of the old man 's den . |
| 25 | In Wales , the Home Secretary can not distinguish a rural community from an urban community , much less appreciate the different policing needs of each . |
| 26 | For women whose kitchens have been their own , it seems to come naturally enough to share the domestic space in the refuge and at least here they have a room of their own — possibly for the first time in their lives . |
| 27 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 28 | That is also why it so much welcomed the successful outcome of the Maastricht agreement on those lines . |
| 29 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 30 | The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by . |