Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 2 | His round , brown eyes regarded me obliquely , a little suspiciously above the high cheekbones . |
| 3 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 4 | Those who commit these crimes must be pursued most vigorously under the criminal law ; if they are allowed to get away with it others will take encouragement to follow their example . |
| 5 | There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 6 | The promotion of language across the curriculum in the wake of the Bullock Report ( 1975 ) has been followed by proposals for pastoral care across the curriculum ( Marland , 1980 ) , and most importantly in the present context , for a coordinated whole-school approach to study skills ( Irving and Snape , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | At first the gospel of family limitation appears to have been spread most effectively among the middle classes before it percolated through to the working classes . |
| 8 | Bhabha writes of how Fanon ‘ speaks most effectively from the uncertain interstices of historical change : from the area of ambivalence between race and sexuality , out of an unresolved contradiction between culture and class ; from deep within the struggle of psychic representation and social reality ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , White Masks , p. ix ) . |
| 9 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 10 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 11 | Not dead , only decaying ( rapidly at first then rather slowly in an interesting way ) … |
| 12 | Right down past the big dole office in town , up that way , and then that way , instead of coming through Green . |
| 13 | And they had white , the whole lot like , and they stripped off right down to a white G-string , then they turned all the lights off and dropped them and by the time they 'd put the lights black on , back on , I ca n't speak now , they 'd had , they had a black one on so they , what they must have had , they well they do , they have loads of them on , they just peel them off like one after another never actually see them naked . |
| 14 | at this point here and going right down to the final A of ANNA and the way you can , you can , cos you 're gon na step in mid way now and you assume that the appropriate sociability has set the rapport has been built and you start the role play by saying thanks very much for that , I now wan na talk about whatever your product is , yeah , and then step into role play that way ? |
| 15 | In loving detail , right down to the rancid smell of burnt onions from hamburger vans , Reid describes three days spent at the races with his charmingly unsavoury friends A. J. Kincaid , John Moynahan and the Major . |
| 16 | Despite the salutary scepticism of David Hume this scholastic convention has survived right down to the present day and is perhaps best explained by saying that when intellectuals who have the mental habits of university professors are invited to specify the distinguishing criteria of human beings they end up by producing a self-image of themselves . |
| 17 | There were countless small libraries that ran on into the 1930s and even later , right down to the small cornershop lending libraries of the kind George Orwell worked in ( it is strange how , when you get down to the basic phenomena of literacy in England , he keeps cropping up ) . |
| 18 | This is not entirely surprising because Gordon looks just like their lead singer ( whose name escapes me right now ) , right down to the ginger mop and lack of height . |
| 19 | It was a relic from the great days of the docks , and had kept the feel of a sailors ' and a stevedores ' drinking hole , right down to the bare brick walls and flagstones . |
| 20 | Sources close to Bel say the tiny tot looks just like mom … right down to the dark sunglasses . |
| 21 | Today 's formulas are far more sophisticated , right down to the perfect brush design . |
| 22 | Obviously it 's losing market share price competition impinging right down to the bottom line left right and centre . |
| 23 | The sensation seemed to spread right down to the very pit of her stomach . |
| 24 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |
| 25 | Trees and bushes grew right down to the very edge of it . |
| 26 | The words spoke truth ; shivered up and down inside her , earthing right down to the OK Corral . |
| 27 | This implies that capital charges will go right down to the departmental level in the budgetary control system . |
| 28 | Its colour void led to clean , efficient lines which had an appeal that passed right down to the high street . |
| 29 | A TRIUMPHANT trompe-l'oeil ; fanatically detailed ( right down to the grainy film stock ) reconstruction of events in the Algerian war of independence from the French during 1954 –'57); that looks uncannily like documentary reality . |
| 30 | Dogs have been bred for many different tasks , from the massive guard dogs and fighting dogs right down to the little toy dogs and lap-dogs . |