Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , so strong have the differential views on advantageous locations become that one recent assessment of the total stock of foreign capital in developing countries suggests that it is less today than it was in 1900 , measured in relation to GNP ( Maddison , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | It is only possible to highlight the basic points and common principles in this chapter . |
| 3 | Democritus , it is said , never appeared in public without laughing , so little did the serious pursuits of men seem serious to him . |
| 4 | So that means the eight ladies and gentlemen sleeping here last night . |
| 5 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 6 | As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims . |
| 7 | In a liquid the motion and thus the kinetic energies of particles are sufficiently high to prevent the attractive forces holding the particles together in a crystal lattice . |
| 8 | Only those particles with kinetic energies sufficiently high to overcome the attractive forces between the particles in the liquid can escape . |
| 9 | When the spread basis was sufficiently non-zero to cover the estimated transactions costs , simulated spread arbitrage transactions were initiated . |
| 10 | Having defined the processes in detail under the checklist , it now becomes much easier to allocate the necessary resources , time units , DOPACS units or whatever you like to call them , to successfully complete the project . |
| 11 | Most important , since form was now largely suggested rather than clearly defined , and since a strong linear quality was retained in the finished painting , it became much easier to combine the various views of an object or to synthesize in its depiction a greater amount of information . |
| 12 | Although it is normal to be served long grain rice at a Chinese restaurant , it is much easier to eat the shorter grains with chopsticks . |
| 13 | I could not help feeling proud of the missionary personnel who had done so much to help the fleeing refugees at Shwebo , Mohnyin and Myitkyina , and elsewhere . |
| 14 | It is easy to understand this , but it 's not so easy to evaluate the different elements of theatre training , and see just how they contribute to the making of that elusive thing , ‘ a compleat actor ’ . |
| 15 | Being in a state of readiness for the unpredictable does seem to result in it being less easy to use the quiet periods of duty time productively , which includes relaxing and taking care of oneself . |
| 16 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 17 | Through mechanical defects , not all the tanks reached the battlefield and of those that did only 31 crossed the German lines . |
| 18 | Pimelodus pictus will take smaller fish , such as Neons , but in a densely planted aquarium and if kept well fed , they are less likely to take the smaller inhabitants . |
| 19 | For the most part , however , the solution will lie more on the managers ' side than the shareholders ' : the managers need to be given incentives that make them less likely to make the colossal errors of the 1960s . |
| 20 | In photographic terms , this is called backlighting , and the camcorder 's attempt to find a compromise setting generally results in the under-exposure of the foreground , though some machines have metering systems which are sufficiently sophisticated to avoid the worst effects of this . |
| 21 | Much , much better to have the sincere words of a family friend than some vicar who did n't really know Donald . |
| 22 | On these members 75mm ( 3in ) thick pine floorboards are fixed , performing a structural function as well as providing a floor surface sufficiently substantial to resist the heavy loads imposed by stored textiles . |
| 23 | It is obviously helpful to make the first flights in smooth weather , with a clear horizon . |
| 24 | However , in analysing behaviour in organizations , it is extremely useful to consider the two sets apart — on the one hand the goals relating to the individual search for a comfortable lifestyle , and on the other those relating to the search for a definition of what is required of each individual . |
| 25 | No one is denied books , materials or teachers , so all have the same opportunities to use them as they might . |
| 26 | Well thirty nine or forty all do it to thirty nine just to keep , so all have the same results . |
| 27 | If indeed the public refrain from investing , the result is ‘ that the market becomes less liquid , and thus less able to fuel the expanding demands of free enterprise ’ . |
| 28 | Political forces and corporate bodies may be more or less able to calculate the likely effects , ceteris paribus , of the implementation of their policies and demands , and the conservation/transformation effect is anyway likely to appear as the ‘ resultant vector ’ of non-coherent activities on the part of a whole range of such forces and bodies ( although , for instance , dominant positions within a government may give one political force more leverage than others ) . |
| 29 | The mandatory penalty does indeed serve to mark out murder from other crimes , but whether the definition of murder is sufficiently refined to capture the worst killings , and only the worst killings , remains to be discussed below . |
| 30 | The ban , initiated by the State Department and announced on 11 March by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service , is expected to affect fewer than 500 of the approximately 3000 Libyan students at American universities , and only those studying the proscribed subjects . |