Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 32 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 33 | We have , after all , a meagre enough amount of free time . |
| 34 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 35 | At the same time , there is an ambiguity in this backwards opening of the canon . |
| 36 | This entailed , first , an attack on the Messines Ridge to straighten the salient just south of Ypres which included the towns of Messines and Wytschaete . |
| 37 | The most fancied contender seems to be the teenage Hungarian girl Judit Polgar the youngest ever qualifier as a grandmaster , one month younger than Fischer . |
| 38 | Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind . |
| 39 | Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London . |
| 40 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years . |
| 41 | And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ? |
| 42 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 43 | And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ? |
| 44 | Some of these longer spinelets end in only a few points , others are shorter more rugose with a multipointed crown . |
| 45 | Manchester was unlucky to be in the strongest ever field of candidates for an Olympic Games , Jim Knight I R N Tokyo . |
| 46 | A few also winter in the Cuckmere estuary , the Amberley/Pulborough marshes and Glynde Levels , but parties of more than 20 are rare . |
| 47 | As this inflow increases — a population movement which can only be compared to the millennial westward movement of peoples to Europe which ended with the defeat of the Mongols — a final answer will be given to our absorbing little debate about European identity . |
| 48 | As the proposed grant for 93–94 from Christian Aid was so large , at £50,000 , the Committee was asked to consider the proposal in advance , and give some now indication of whether it would support the request when it came to committee for approval next year . |
| 49 | It 's quite interesting though sort of thinking |
| 50 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 51 | And er get and then strip this er at the side , cos a girl used to be at the front to strip all this here lace of these here pins . |
| 52 | All I want now is to get this 'ere wallet into the mitts of that geezer I do n't like the look of . ’ |
| 53 | When we left at 11.20 am the forecourt would be crowded with another congregation waiting to enter for the 11.30 am Celebration of the Sung Eucharist . |
| 54 | In principle , it might have been quicker to take the direct northward road through Andalusia and southern Castile . |
| 55 | Mark this either side of your centre line |
| 56 | Inside , the book analyses the defects in the system in this country where more first-class cricketers ( too many ? ) practise than in any other , and where one Test humiliation followed another either side of the isolated bright patch in 1985 . |
| 57 | The hypothesized eastward movement of China towards the Pacific would be expected because the continental lithosphere of Eurasia would provide more resistance to lateral movement than the subduction zones of the western Pacific margin . |
| 58 | A daily , monthly , annual etc. count of issues within particular subject areas can provide guidance to the popularity ( or otherwise ) of sections of the stock , particularly if the breakdown of subjects is sufficiently detailed . |
| 59 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 60 | Even after a number of plays , the only ones which made any lasting impact were ‘ Here Big Day ’ , a witty enough piece about getting married , and its attendant perils , and ‘ My Father 's Shoes ’ , a genuinely fine song about loving a parent — it struck home with me , and I 'll wager I wo n't be the only one . |