Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teclis is a truly formidable mage ; arguably the best in the world . |
| 2 | Somehow , the aircraft had not been adequately lashed down on the low loader and as the lorry moved forward the Firefly rolled off its trestles on to the bed of the lorry damaging the undersides of the aircraft in the process , the aircraft was then reloaded and secured and thankfully the reset of the trip to Duxford was uneventful . |
| 3 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
| 4 | The late unlamented Field Marshal Goering once said that when he heard the word " Culture " , he reached for his gun ; I feel rather the same about the phrase " continuous sedimentation " . |
| 5 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 6 | In psycholinguistics , an item 's meaning , it is said , can be analysed into a number of semantic markers — components or features also found in the meanings of other items , eg the -ly of an adverb such as clearly — and a distinguisher , which is the residue of meaning after the markers have been deducted ( clear ) . |
| 7 | Of the many martial arts that exist in Asia today , the Korean method of unarmed combat called taekwondo is perhaps the newest on the scene . |
| 8 | In Western Australia too , magnificent reefs of this age are developed , perhaps the best in the world , notably in the splendid sections of the Windjana Gorge ( plate 1.12 ) . |
| 9 | These are selected children from the schools — often perhaps the best in the class — that have been put forward . |
| 10 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 11 | The squashed beetle , perhaps the smallest in the world , is only just over eight feet long . |
| 12 | His name was Andrew Curval and he was an experimental geneticist ; perhaps the greatest of the age . |
| 13 | ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , perhaps the finest of the Conversation Poems , is a meditation on Coleridge 's own childhood , and a passionate expression of hope for Hartley 's future . |
| 14 | Whereas in Yorkshire the penetration and usage is very low perhaps the lowest in the country erm where there is still very much a heritage of , Well what 's wrong with what 's in t' tap lad ? |
| 15 | The urban motorway of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is perhaps the ultimate in the drive to destroy totally the historic landscape of towns for the sake of short-term convenience and gain . |
| 16 | Meanwhile perhaps the earliest of the inhibitor experiments was made by Wesley Dingman and Michael Sporn , in Rochester , New York , in 1963 . |
| 17 | However , there are 20 pieces ( eight corners and 12 edges ) to restore and a piece may be in many different positions with respect to its home position , so such a method will involve solving many subproblems ( 239 to be exact ) and this is not a very human strategy , though it is perhaps the easiest for a computer . |
| 18 | It was going to be a clear day , perhaps the hottest of the year so far . |
| 19 | The craftsmanship may not be long-lasting , but they are cheap — perhaps the cheapest in the world . |
| 20 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 21 | His dominance was all the greater after the death of the earl of Warwick in August 1315 , and at the Lincoln parliament in January 1316 he was recognized as head of the council . |
| 22 | These super-energetic , long-lived Cartland ladies need challenging employment , and politics would be all the richer for the involvement of ‘ acid Raine ’ . |
| 23 | The greens and golds were all faded and darkened to a dull blackish colour that looked all the drabber in the presence of so many fresh flowers . |
| 24 | She could n't cloak her antagonism which was all the worse for the element of truth in what he said . |
| 25 | Night had descended quite suddenly , and , as neither of them had bothered to switch on any lights , the house was in complete darkness , a darkness made all the heavier by the remnants of the storm outside . |
| 26 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 27 | That was the only Ulster success of the night but the Bily Rock-trained Tadila was always in the leading group before finishing third in the Ardee Hurdle won by Shareef Alliance and should be all the better for the run . |
| 28 | The game at Twickenham today will be all the better for the inclusion of the National Anthem . |
| 29 | Any work that involves ‘ waiting ’ or ‘ cab rank ’ service is all the better for the mathematics of operating a piston-powered airliner . |
| 30 | The conversation moves on , all the better for the comment , not infrequently the gayer for it . |