Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 2 | Those who commit these crimes must be pursued most vigorously under the criminal law ; if they are allowed to get away with it others will take encouragement to follow their example . |
| 3 | The promotion of language across the curriculum in the wake of the Bullock Report ( 1975 ) has been followed by proposals for pastoral care across the curriculum ( Marland , 1980 ) , and most importantly in the present context , for a coordinated whole-school approach to study skills ( Irving and Snape , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 5 | Manville was dead long before the heavy iron chains fastened around his ankles dragged his body to the bottom of the Potomac River . |
| 6 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 7 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) . |
| 9 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 10 | It was inevitable that the war in Asia would affect politics in Western Europe , most obviously in the military sphere . |
| 11 | There is hardly any difference between the sexes , except that the casque or bonnet at the back of the head and tubercles at the nostrils are a little larger , and the beautiful rosy salmon colour a little deeper in the male bird … ’ |
| 12 | It is " recursive " because the same rule ( in this case a branching rule ) is applied locally all over the growing tree . |
| 13 | Kitty took about a dozen tender puffs and then pressed the pad of her index finger most gently on the glowing weed . |
| 14 | ‘ This is what you call the laconicum ? ’ she asked , drawing back rather dubiously from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth . |
| 15 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 16 | The expanse of wooden floor , cool and clean and shining … the double bed with its hand-appliquéd quilt in a complex pattern of pastels and white … the stand of leafy potted plants , the antique free-standing mirror , whose glass oval would take in the whole length of a woman in evening dress … the modern wardrobe , built-in , that blended so skilfully into the architectural mood of the house while providing all the space for clothing that she could possibly need … two original paintings on the walls , each an impressionistic landscape in subtle , imaginative colour … |
| 17 | He contrasts the moral ideas of humanity with those of the deity , who is described in terms reminiscent of Voltaire : ‘ Why have we sympathies that make the best of us so afraid of inflicting pain and sorrow , which yet we see dealt about so lavishly by the supreme governor ? ’ |
| 18 | Inaccurate or biased research deserves our criticism , but it is just as important to ask the prior questions of why researchers have chosen to study sex differences so intensively in the first place ( why does no-one study ‘ sex similarity ’ ? |
| 19 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |
| 20 | It is perhaps easier to work with the Germans , whom Britain fought so bitterly in the first half of this century , than with the French or the Italians , whose active roles in the Second World War were prematurely curtailed . |
| 21 | Are you all right with the new ball , because we are ’ . |
| 22 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 23 | It was all right for the active partner , but how did the other fellow get his satisfaction . |
| 24 | Ken and Codron had got together professionally in the first place because of what he called their ‘ Grill and Cheese relationship ’ . |
| 25 | There he works on the Slime Line , which is basically rather like the Northern Line , but slightly more regular . |
| 26 | Beyond , the path was the same — empty in the darkening moonlight and leading gently downhill into the deep shadow of a grove of ilex trees . |
| 27 | In a fifth , B antigen was expressed strongly in the descending colon , but only weakly in the splenic flexure and the sigmoid colon which suggests that it might have been artefactual . |
| 28 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 29 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 30 | The public ceremony , the ritual , the signing of the contract , which can speak so powerfully to the inner world of the subjects , is absent . |