Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , Castle Master , though widely regarded as the best of the Freescape games , suffers from the similar snail-paced somnambulance as its soporific stablemates . |
| 2 | It 's widely regarded as the best in town and is within strolling distance of the city centre and Maschsee . |
| 3 | His decision to do so , however , appears to have been motivated more by his belief that he had been personally insulted by the Spanish during the earlier marriage negotiations and by a romantic desire to restore his sister and brother-in-law to their inheritance than by any wish to display solidarity with the Protestant cause , which was crumbling away before the seemingly irresistible progress of the Hapsburg armies . |
| 4 | Motorways are dangerous enough place at the best of times . |
| 5 | Last , but definitely not least , the Masai were much esteemed by the British for their beautiful manners , especially the dignified courtesy which marked their behaviour towards Europeans . |
| 6 | He might also have said , as he had on countless occasions , that although he had constantly looked to the British for advice , he distrusted them acutely . |
| 7 | After the decision in and which was only reported on the fifth of October of this year in the all England reports . |
| 8 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 9 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
| 10 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 11 | It is customary to refer to autistic children rather than autistic people because the first account of the syndrome was only written in the 1940s by Dr Leo Kanner who said : |
| 12 | No sign of a tent , but over to the left , just showing , was a clump of trees thickly planted and apparently sheltered from the worst of the weather , and , standing up from among them , the chimneys of a house . |
| 13 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 14 | But the image would n't come , it was softly blotted out in this warm , rosy room with drawers and cupboards being gently closed upon the last of her possessions and Lyddy asking her which dress she wanted laid out for dinner . |
| 15 | They dreamed together their first dream of life : of its glories and its fame , of the life that lay beyond the prison walls of this school and beyond this miserable town , which to despise was their delight , of the life that must open up soon before them , that was only waiting for the two of them in order to receive them and shower them with its infinite gifts ! |
| 16 | A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times , but one of this size … . |
| 17 | There were four Knox brothers , all born in the 1880s into a Victorian rectory : Edmund , Dillwyn , Wilfred and Ronald . |
| 18 | Each expression was as swiftly melted into the next as a tiny wave lapped by a faster following . |
| 19 | We owe a lot to Tom who still has a fondness for his kites , although he is better known in the 1990s as the creator of the GeoSphere Project , a spectacular image of the Earth produced from over 2000 satellite images . |
| 20 | I knew my former comrades would be long gone from the latest of the encampments before the malais ever got near them . |
| 21 | We have God-given talents for a reason so play to the best of your ability at all times Never be satisfied until you have given 100 per cent . |
| 22 | That 's real adventure — bright enough to shine through the densest of Scottish mists . |
| 23 | He literally travelled from the Arctic to the Amazon in the course of one year , as well as attending his patients in downtown Toronto . |
| 24 | All at once she began to laugh , and her anger , never very swiftly roused at the best of times , left her entirely . |
| 25 | Among these are its smoothness and coolness to the touch , a degree of translucency , and colours ranging from the white most highly esteemed by the Chinese to the various shades of green , yellow , orange , red , blue , mauve and black imparted by mineral components . |
| 26 | I was horrified in nineteen ninety one with my first visit to see the enormous problems in housing three and a half million people were forcibly moved in the eighties in South Africa , the biggest peacetime movement of people anywhere in the world and there are now over seven million people in , just in the shacks on the roads , not even the informal housing which counts for more . |
| 27 | The Arch of Titus , Rome ( A.D. 81 ) is generally regarded as the finest of the extant triumphal arches , particularly of the single arched design . |
| 28 | This latter region produces a type referred to as rasht silk , which is generally regarded as the best in the world . |
| 29 | The main area for the manufacture of fine broadcloths was the southern Cotswolds , notably in the Stroud valley , where there was not only a supply of high-quality local wool — Cotswold wool was generally regarded as the best in England — but also quantities of fuller 's earth and available water power ( 65 , pp.153–6 ; 84 , p.309 ) . |
| 30 | It is significant that the Prussian army , the most successful and admired of the age , used a heavy musket which was generally regarded as the worst in Europe . |