Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) . |
| 32 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 33 | Electrification was first mooted during the early LNER days but it was to be 1954 before the final chapter in the story of Victoria opened . |
| 34 | He 's always fallen for the really pretty ones , she said . |
| 35 | Restrictive practices concerned with crewing nationality are to continue for the most part until the end of the century . |
| 36 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 37 | An assessment framework was developed by the SSCC study team for trial as a preliminary stage of the SMP scheme intended for the very lowest attaining third and fourth year students . |
| 38 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 39 | Thus , we suggest that pou[c] should be placed as the presently sole member of a new , sixth class of POU proteins . |
| 40 | A federal plan to finance the cleaning up of toxic waste — known as Superfund — was begun ten years ago with 1,200 out of the US 's 40,000 sites being designated as the most dangerous . |
| 41 | It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain . |
| 42 | Mr Makepeace , who dreaded public places where he might meet the boys of Burleigh , sat longer than any , pretending to go through the disgracefully scrappy mathematics homework that his classes saw fit to throw his way . |
| 43 | Erm , my Lord I do n't think it 's necessary to go through the rather complicated headland potentially gives you though I can see it from the er . |
| 44 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 45 | and after a time you know you say ha and you just because the lawyer for the other side always goes for the very worst scenario |
| 46 | Again Mozart 's composition of the arias was delayed through the very late arrival of some of the principal singers : |
| 47 | Well I think like Lucy said it has made you think about the really . |
| 48 | Shrugging off the severely cut navy blue linen jacket of her new designer suit , she tossed it over on top of her briefcase , before sinking down on to a sofa and sighing with relief as she slipped off her high-heeled blue court shoes . |
| 49 | With COSMOS all children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel qualify for the specially reduced child prices advertised in the holiday pages as long as they share a room with 2 adults . |
| 50 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 51 | Ta Kung Pao , the Communist newspaper regarded as the most reliable voice in Hong Kong of the Peking leadership , displayed a poster reading : ‘ Wash away the shame of the country . ’ |
| 52 | DAN RATHER , the CBS News anchorman , once regarded as the most trusted person in America , has yet to answer charges that he aired faked battle footage and false news accounts of the war in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s . |
| 53 | This is usually regarded as the most sensitive aspect of secret service work . |
| 54 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 55 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 56 | For practical purposes , the culpable causing of another person 's death may fairly be regarded as the most serious offence in the criminal calendar . |
| 57 | If causing death is to be regarded as the most serious harm that can be inflicted , it would seem to follow that the most blameworthy form of homicide should result in the highest sentences imposed by the courts . |
| 58 | Intent to kill may be regarded as the most obvious and indisputable form of fault element for murder , but to some extent that depends on the meaning of ‘ intent ’ . |
| 59 | The Shedd is widely regarded as the most advanced oceanarium in the world . |
| 60 | Memorable especially are the Victorian rectitude of her mother 's grandfather , a public-spirited and popular governor of Hainaut and the introverted idealism of his nephew , Octave Pirmez , still regarded as the most distinguished Belgian essayist of his time ; and Remo , whose anguished pursuit of justice and truth through Germany and Greece ended with his sublime and absurd suicide listening to Tannhauser on his musical box . |