Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The two rabbits went up to the board at a hopping run and crouched in a patch of nettles on the far side , wrinkling their noses at the smell of a dead cigarette-end somewhere in the grass .
2 The station 's first official passenger was the Duke of Kent … who in army uniform today officially opened the described as the most advanced anywhere in the world .
3 There is no doubt that the corporatist literature is important : it is ambitious ; it is sensitive to the tie-up between politics and economics ( in a way which pluralism never was ) ; it deals not just with the process of public policy-making but with the substantive outcomes of that process as well ; and it is keenly alive both to the clashes of interests and to the forces which have tended to hold those clashes in some kind of check .
4 Look , if you put it somewhere sensible like on the side of the mirror .
5 We do have to be a little careful now of the evidence which Mead cited in support of her claim that both gender and adolescence are so culturally varied that they simply can not be biologically determined .
6 I like all these noncommittal grey frontages , some unobtrusively elegant , some cautiously flamboyant , that give so little away about the thought that teems behind them .
7 The moon is that much further away from the sea on this side so that 'd have that much less of an effect holding the sea water down on to the earth and therefore the sea water comes Now obviously the water from the high tide has got to come from somewhere so they 'll be some parts of the globe low tide .
8 Erm , Local Government and Local Council work is often seen as being very drab and indeed we all know that it 's becoming probably less exciting nowadays with the constraints that there are and what Councils still require er in abundance are characters , people who bring a bit of excitement to Council affairs w i at whatever level and I think that one thing that has is character , sadly missing in so many younger politicians I must say .
9 With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind .
10 Because the level of transactions was so high ahead of the slump in house prices , it is widely believed that there is a substantial number of homeowners waiting to sell when prices do start to recover .
11 Yet , as they finally declare their love for each other — having been tricked into so doing — Beatrice asks one favour : It seems to me that the fact that this request comes in prose is a sign that it is not to be taken seriously , since it , too , like so much else in the play , is based on false appearances .
12 And would I have got so much just from a voice ?
13 ‘ Golf is improved so much all over the world , ’ says Baker-Finch , the Open champion who followed his first round of 70 with a 69 , ‘ and the Aussies have a lot of potential . ’
14 The staff was then only 65. later in the year the Company was moved to Hanworth and located on the stock-market .
15 Their unbeaten stand of 117 was only thirteen away from the England tenth-wicket record when , with Willis on 24 , he reached his maiden Test century , Botham declared and the match ended .
16 Inevitably , these sociétés became ever more specialized and less accessible intellectually to the layman , so that by the end of the nineteenth century the universal sauvant had effectively disappeared .
17 No — surely they 'd never commit something so dangerous even to a Company Spiderline .
18 She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one .
19 I should be much happier here as a schoolteacher , free and honest , in the healthy heart of England .
20 The counter arguments , however , are that in practice health care markets are highly imperfect both on the demand and supply sides .
21 She found that , for the RVF , manual reaction times for " same " trials increased with the number of letters presented but , for the LVF , reaction time was more or less constant regardless of the number of letters presented .
22 so slippery underfoot on the pavements . "
23 ‘ Well , it is n't so great here at the bottom , most of the time .
24 Obviously good enough for the MP for Darlington to put his hand in his pocket for .
25 Why use funds to develop a new product when there are so many already on the market ?
26 Your sermon was inspiring , and thank you for sharing this moving service with so many all round the country , so that we felt as one with your own congregation …
27 It was an unfathomable mystery how a once-wealthy magnate could become so poor merely by the act of assuming the crown .
28 These recent theories , whether they deal with an intellectual movement — the invention of a new doctrine — or with the social process of industrialization , are obviously concerned mainly with the nationalism of the twentieth century and with what are claimed to be its roots in the social , cultural and political changes which occurred in Western Europe during the nineteenth century .
29 No issue is so fundamental both to the searcher and to the believer as the question of truth .
30 Much foreign press comment , most of which was highly sceptical both of the referendum results and of the motives behind it , focussed on the issue of Western Sahara , suggesting that the inclusion of the territory 's people in the voting , and their apparently ready participation , could be shown as a further proof of their supposed attachment to Morocco .
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