Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although Professor Plumb suggests the participation of " better-off " tradesmen he clearly sees the leisure industry as catering mostly for the expanding and increasingly prosperous middle class . |
| 2 | This situation meant freedom of expression only for the wealthy and already powerful . |
| 3 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 4 | The Minister has said that his Department has contacted the local authorities , but when will the Government accept that the local authorities have the strategy and the enabling powers to make provision for housing , especially for the homeless and perhaps for some of the 40,000 personnel who will be leaving the armed forces in the near future ? |
| 5 | Suffice to suggest that the ego -experienced world of the Sonnets , despite the enormous time devoted to the Thou , creates what is essentially a single vision , a self-dedication to the other , which in effect results in an exposure and analysis , not only of the other but also of the self . |
| 6 | Remember , though , that since the valetudinarian English gave Pau up the climate has reverted to what it was , so you need to be there on a day of reasonable weather , otherwise the Boulevard will not be tea Pyrénées at all , but only of the closer and less pleasing scene . |
| 7 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
| 8 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 9 | As Young ( 1986 ) has pointed out , we seem to be left only with the practical but extremely narrow focus of the new ‘ administrative ’ criminologists , or the unexamined , taken-for-granted ( and contradictory ) explanations of ‘ left idealism ’ . |
| 10 | At some later point in time in this scenario ( especially with the mechanical and then electronic production and reproduction of representations ) , cultural facts would become so pervasive that they would come to challenge ‘ natural facts ’ for hegemony , and would even to some extent constitute the norm . |
| 11 | If there are structural weaknesses in the German constitution and German political life , they perhaps lie halfway between these two remarks , namely that there is an excessive domination of the parties in the political process who fail to bring political discussion sufficiently into the open and consequently do not always offer the electorate a real choice . |
| 12 | They were particularly impressed with the additional two and a half million for home care with the resources to go with it , together with the additional and also of course the eight hundred thousand for the er scheme . |
| 13 | So , if you have decided that the basic form is what suits your talents best ( and , as I have said , books like this are still published ) , then you will find you need to use as your suspects what are often called cardboard characters , that is people observed almost entirely from the outside and generally endowed with just one outstanding trait . |
| 14 | ‘ Discuss , with reference to at least two plays , how tragedy can be enacted not only upon the individual but also upon a family ’ |
| 15 | It must be regarded as extremely probable that Oswiu was able to seek help in the confrontation with Penda not only from the Scots but also from the Picts , possibly even from the Irish ( see also below , p. 99 ) . |
| 16 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 17 | This ends just before the large A4031 bridge from which the canal emerges to cross over an aqueduct over a minor road with a public house below on the left and then crosses over another aqueduct over the railway main line through Birmingham . |
| 18 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 19 | Brush all over the outside and inside with apricot glaze . |
| 20 | Brush all over the outside and inside with apricot glaze . |
| 21 | Firstly , it 's a 32 bit operating system , which means that it will run only on the 386 and above . |
| 22 | I believe that the best way in which the State can encourage respect for human life is by refraining from taking life itself , unless it is compelled to do so by the direst and most certain necessity . |
| 23 | This works best with the slower and more easily-controlled action of diNaEDTA , and is ideal for studying the location of delicate organic matter , such as shell membranes or algal and fungal filaments . |
| 24 | It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education . |
| 25 | Alone with her thoughts and with a blank canvas in front of her , she is transported far away from the rough and occasionally ruthless showbusiness industry . |
| 26 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 27 | These regions are still amongst the poorest and least developed in Yugoslavia . |
| 28 | There were no great men or women either , as Britain settled down resignedly into the second or even third-class status enjoyed by Venice , Spain , Sweden , Holland , and other failed empire-builders of the past . |
| 29 | The essence of the FSU approach consists of the family caseworkers having very small caseloads so that they can visit families frequently-several times a week if necessary-and help directly with the practical as well as emotional problems the families face . |
| 30 | But the abiding issue of Rhodesia , still in the unilateral and technically illegal control of the minority white government of Ian Smith , despite strong black guerrilla opposition from supporters of the rival Nkomo and Mugabe factions , remained undisturbed . |