Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , this admirable attempt to streamline this vital area has been all but defeated by the bafflingly thick four bolt neck plate . |
| 2 | She trotted off again , through a really insalubrious area known as Bligh 's Corner , after some landlord , long dead , and she unconsciously quickened her pace a little so as to arrive in the relatively respectable square where the rectory stood , next door to St Jude 's church where Dr Neil 's household worshipped every Sunday . |
| 3 | In order to maximize the use of existing resources , the enforcement regime must impose heavy sanctions so as to compensate for the relatively low risk of detection and prosecution . |
| 4 | Rather than moving towards the much vaunted Japanese way of doing things , America is moving in the opposite direction . |
| 5 | Because the definition of ‘ informal carer ’ can be so vague , we decided to focus on each person 's principal carer ( if there was one ) , defined on the objective criterion that he or she spent a minimum of seven hours per week ( on average one hour per day ) doing things with or on behalf of the dementia sufferer , rather than rely on the more subjective criterion of who appears to be most responsible for the sufferer . |
| 6 | Pain and its Conquest concentrates on perception cognition and emotion , and the ways of manipulating these by verbal and intellectual means rather than concentrating on the more traditional methods of control by cutting , by blocking or the more recent manipulating of existing control systems by chemical or electrical stimulation . |
| 7 | ‘ We will be pushing to do this locally and writing to the OFT on a regular basis to check on the state of play , ’ he said . |
| 8 | We have had a good year , barring accidents , and although the summer weather was disastrous we have been more than compensated by the most beautiful Autumn ever . |
| 9 | Some commentators have gone further and pointed to the relatively high proportion of UK production which has been exported and to the high ratio of exports of GDP in international terms . |
| 10 | They sailed overhead and swayed with the slightly erratic action of the cableway holding them , bumping into each other now and again and so producing the clinking noise just audible over the din . |
| 11 | We eat well and sleep in the very comfortable barn ; the war has gone on — over the horizon . |
| 12 | Robertson and Walker proposed a model for the Universe having uniform curvature ; this framework works very well and leads to the locally preferred comoving frames noted above . |
| 13 | The Communists became the most active supporters of the war and were able to revive their previous connections on the Left as well as to capitalize on the rapidly increasing resentment against the pre-war Conservative Party . |
| 14 | It is expected that the results of the research programme will be of interest and utility to those in government , as well as contributing to the more theoretical aspects of the subject . |
| 15 | It was better that way because then no one , even when put under the most severe torture , would be able to name her as the culprit . |
| 16 | Particularly when contrasted with the grindingly abrasive and ultimately polishing actions of ice , sea , wind and rain : nowhere better illustrated than in the works of Henry Moore . |
| 17 | Yet when compared with the much larger and more luxurious villas of the Rhineland and Gallia Belgica , Britannia seems a very poor relation . |