Example sentences of "[subord] the [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , go to a considerable amount of trouble to , first , find the point where your story has to begin , where the first absolutely necessary fact has to be put before the reader , then work equally hard to find a form of words to state it that will catch your reader as firmly as Ruth Rendell catches hers . |
| 2 | In New York , the visitor is drawn time and time again to the Frick Collection , where the opulent yet relaxed setting shows off the objects so much more sympathetically than the Disneyland-style ‘ period rooms ’ across the other side of Fifth Avenue . |
| 3 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 4 | the relative confidence that the example is in this class rather than the next most likely class . |
| 5 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 6 | If the latter then considerable difficulty may be encountered in trying to help the patient change his attitudes . |
| 7 | BOLA originally estimated that turnover would go up by 10 per cent if the current 6.30pm closing time were lifted , but Kelly believes the survey makes that figure look pessimistic . |
| 8 | They affected to despise her , but they did not find their contempt a strain , whereas the other really bad disciplinarian in the school , a Geography mistress , one Miss Riley , inflicted on them an intolerable suffering , for they felt themselves compelled to torment her , and she would sit before them , thin and pretty and anguished , making vain attempts to restore order , miserably transparent in her misery , and unable to conceal the depths of her humiliation — depths which frightened them , but which they could not leave unplumbed . |
| 9 | One is charged with upholding the moral order , while the other equally essential class helps to explain inappropriate affliction . |
| 10 | But after the first somewhat angry alienation' , apart from Macaulay who remained doubtful , the honesty of the old antislavery leadership and of the Young England Agency men enabled them ‘ to play successfully into each other 's hands . |
| 11 | The oscillation is surprisingly large , up to 25% , even when the one very large variation is excluded . |
| 12 | In Fagan ( see above and Chapter 4 ) , it was held to be a battery when the accused inadvertently applied force and wrongfully decided not to stop using it . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the roof surfaces had been reclad with corrugated iron when the original locally quarried stone slates became unserviceable . |
| 14 | With a quick wave she darted off through the clusters of people , and Caroline was left facing Roman , abruptly gripped by shyness as well as the usual quietly simmering resentment . |
| 15 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |