Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 2 | Having pretty much failed in the single most important objective of Systems Application Architecture , that of creating a single user interface for all its disparate operating system families with Common User Access , IBM Corp 's Personal Software Products group is trying again , this time with the Workplace Shell of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 3 | Cos she does n't want to be like depressing , she said er no she does n't feel like that because she 's already gone through the worst so she wo n't , yeah she wants to help people who 've got it . |
| 4 | Just as the ‘ means of material production ’ is largely held by the few so , too , is the ‘ means of mental production ’ . |
| 5 | Suppose that the mating preference was asymmetrically arranged around the familiar so that first cousins with conspicuous plumage were preferred over those with dowdier plumage , then there would have been a relentless pressure for plumage to become more conspicuous . |
| 6 | Thirdly , in economic theory it is presumed that any level of output is always produced at the lowest technically feasible cost . |
| 7 | At high levels of recursion the pattern becomes quite elaborate , but you can easily see in Figure 2 that it is still produced by the same very simple branching rule . |
| 8 | The new report also casts doubt on the importance of methane , usually cited as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide . |
| 9 | The intensity of the potency , determined by the quantity of dose given , is also regulated to the optimum especially if the doses are increased progressively as is suggested e.g. an extra 5ml spoonful each week . |
| 10 | America is also represented by the legendary ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST . |
| 11 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 12 | Although rarely found in the wild now , this native of Europe including Britain , was sometimes also known in the Middle Ages as " rush-leek " from the Greek schoinos , rush and prason , leek . |
| 13 | As Alicia begins to build a new life for herself she is increasingly drawn towards the brusque yet magnetic charms of the Cornishman who owns Tresco , a remote ranch near the High Sierras . |
| 14 | You can see why , apart from Palin-for one thing , it is cunningly scheduled between the Nine O'Clock News , with its much increased audience , and Sportsnight . |
| 15 | He talked about events in the Middle Ages as if they 'd happened-yesterday and been fully aired on the nine o'clock news . |
| 16 | The report , published in 1991 , uncovered statistical evidence that children who spoke English as a second language were heavily over-represented in the two most acute categories of special needs schools in the region 's Glasgow district . |
| 17 | She was glad to see her friends , naturally , and she loved the cottage , and got on quite well with Susan ; but at first she was completely baffled by the simple yet busy life they led . |
| 18 | When I was at school in the 1930s and 1940s the canon would have included King-lake 's Eothen , Thomas Hughes 's Tom Brown 's Schooldays , Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies and the essays of Charles Lamb , all little read by the young today . |
| 19 | But the traditional Fijian elites , the power and influence of Australian and multinational companies , and US military and strategic interests were seriously threatened by the last duly elected civilian administration , Bavandra 's Labour government . |