Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 2 | Having pretty much failed in the single most important objective of Systems Application Architecture , that of creating a single user interface for all its disparate operating system families with Common User Access , IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products group is trying again , this time with the Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 3 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 4 | Cos she does n't want to be like depressing , she said er no she does n't feel like that because she 's already gone through the worst so she wo n't , yeah she wants to help people who 've got it . |
| 5 | Just as the ‘ means of material production ’ is largely held by the few so , too , is the ‘ means of mental production ’ . |
| 6 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |
| 7 | Thirdly , in economic theory it is presumed that any level of output is always produced at the lowest technically feasible cost . |
| 8 | At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule . |
| 9 | By 1937 this was helping to bring into the orbit of Left politics an increasing number of younger , better educated middle-class activists , who found themselves confronting a leadership which still belonged to the 1920s intellectually and was socially based on the older industrial areas and occupations . |
| 10 | The new report also casts doubt on the importance of methane , usually cited as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide . |
| 11 | Rigel in Orion has 60000 times the luminosity of the Sun , and even at its distance of 900 light-years it still shines as the seventh apparently brightest of all the stars ; its magnitude is 0.1 . |
| 12 | I made it clear in my 1985 Opus article and in my 1988 Early music article 3 that ‘ Metronome marks for the slower minuets also appear in the twelve earlier Mozart symphonies Czerny edited . ’ |
| 13 | The intensity of the potency , determined by the quantity of dose given , is also regulated to the optimum especially if the doses are increased progressively as is suggested e.g. an extra 5ml spoonful each week . |
| 14 | The two elements are equally well reconciled in ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , where we are introduced to the workings of the ‘ Spirit ’ to a large degree ; the very setting of the poem , where the poet finds that ‘ at my side my cradled infant slumbers peacefully ’ suggests the power of creation ; it is partly owing to the silent yet undeniable presence of the product of his own regeneration that allows Coleridge to ascend to the levels of ‘ meditation with its strange and extreme silentness ’ . |
| 15 | America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST . |
| 16 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 17 | Although rarely found in the wild now , this native of Europe including Britain , was sometimes also known in the Middle Ages as " rush-leek " from the Greek schoinos , rush and prason , leek . |
| 18 | The traditional picture presented above of the efficacy of the occasional desert flood probably really applies to the semi-arid rather than to the truly arid regions . |
| 19 | In the case of Estella however her appearances are n't really deceiving as she looks arrogant and proud and has proud eyes though she really changes for the better even though it occurred because of her treatment by Bentley Drummle and in the end like Pip , she is wiser and has been softened by her experiences and lost her proud eyes and air . |
| 20 | After some long while of freelancing , Cara was now working for the superior bi-monthly magazine Verity . |
| 21 | As Alicia begins to build a new life for herself she is increasingly drawn towards the brusque yet magnetic charms of the Cornishman who owns Tresco , a remote ranch near the High Sierras . |
| 22 | You can see why , apart from Palin-for one thing , it is cunningly scheduled between the Nine O'Clock News , with its much increased audience , and Sportsnight . |
| 23 | Thus all eleven of the zonal ammonites of the Lower Lias ( basal Jurassic ) belong to different genera and only two of them even belong to the same subfamily . |
| 24 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 25 | We combine these by choosing just a few random points in them , say two or three , and copying from the first string up to the first point ; then copying from the second up to the second point ; then copying from the first again ; and so on , switching between them at each point . |
| 26 | The report , published in 1991 , uncovered statistical evidence that children who spoke English as a second language were heavily over-represented in the two most acute categories of special needs schools in the region 's Glasgow district . |
| 27 | She was glad to see her friends , naturally , and she loved the cottage , and got on quite well with Susan ; but at first she was completely baffled by the simple yet busy life they led . |
| 28 | When I was at school in the 1930s and 1940s the canon would have included King-lake 's Eothen , Thomas Hughes 's Tom Brown 's Schooldays , Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies and the essays of Charles Lamb , all little read by the young today . |
| 29 | But the traditional Fijian elites , the power and influence of Australian and multinational companies , and US military and strategic interests were seriously threatened by the last duly elected civilian administration , Bavandra 's Labour government . |
| 30 | Waking up at night I ca n't actually differentiate between the two very easily . |