Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So public relations wins the day ?
2 A further half mile or so past fields brings the train to Birkhill Station .
3 This stretch of approximately three miles includes the whole of the famous 1:29 Golfa incline .
4 Putting on successively larger weights increases the extension and the " modulus ' is measured from the graphical plot of load against extension , corrections being made for the cross-sectional area and for the original length .
5 One of the most remarkable contributions opens the book : Monte San , born in the 1880s , in an age where the then sovereign , Queen Victoria , refused to believe lesbians existed anywhere , let alone in the British Empire 's colonies ) Bradstock and Wakeling have done an admirable job in putting together a collection of personal essays that explore the inner and outer ramifications of being a lesbian , in the last hundred years of the myth-shrouded place that is Australia .
6 From more recent times comes the will left by a Yorkshire vicar who viewed his daughter 's adherence to contemporary fashion with mounting horror .
7 For example , the attempt in the past thirty years to incorporate more divergent factors changes the emphasis towards inductive and creative abilities .
8 One of the most fundamental areas concerns the introduction of new education and examination systems which will in future be handled jointly by the Institute and Faculty .
9 Now Troubled Times assembles the highlights from Fortnight 's first two decades .
10 In a classic portrait of a ‘ nanny state ’ , a group of initially well-meaning bureaucrats has the task of manipulating ‘ Eternity ’ to maximise human happiness .
11 As 91.4 per cent of records will be located in their home buckets , the advantage of having relatively few synonyms outweighs the disadvantage of there being some long chains .
12 Chapter 2 considered how shareholder passivity in large public companies with widely dispersed shareholdings creates the possibility that managers will pursue self-interested ends , divergent from the goal of profit maximisation .
13 In too few cases has the reduction been accompanied by an admission that the new base will be more sustainable in future .
14 Although the bureau manager who supports a large team of very part-time volunteers craves the injection of hours that the unemployed can offer , they equally crave stability and escape from the greater supervision needed by new staff .
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