Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am most grateful to have the opportunity to develop once again on the Adjournment the problems associated with trunk roads in Leicestershire . |
| 2 | The fact that two years later the HMI Secondary Survey showed that popular fears about falling standards were largely unfounded did conspicuously little to change the prevailing attitude . |
| 3 | However , it seems rather unnecessary to introduce the negative sentence ( 2b ) into a consideration of the relationship between ( 2a ) and ( 2c ) which arises in the conversation presented earlier in ( I ) . |
| 4 | For many people it is rather demoralising to finish a long way behind the leaders all the time and so pursuit racing is an attempt to provide a handicapping system . |
| 5 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 6 | ‘ Jolly odd having a stepmother the same age as you . |
| 7 | By the way er we may er be gratified to know that erm thankfully Labour lost the ninety eighty seven election but in , in it 's manifesto in nineteen eighty seven Labour proposed annual elections in local government . |
| 8 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 9 | In 1945 , in the closing months of the war in Europe , she convinced the Administrators of the Old Vic and Sadler 's Wells that it would be altogether admirable to reopen the theatre in Roseberry Avenue with the world premiere of Benjamin Britten 's first opera , Peter Grimes . |
| 10 | And I think it was really rather refreshing to see the kids not know what was the right idea and actually dream up all sorts of fantasies for themselves , many of which were had their own validity . |
| 11 | At the beginning of February 1990 cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , caused one death in Tonga and T$4,000,000-worth of damage . |
| 12 | Cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , struck Western Samoa on Feb. 1 , 1990 , leaving seven people dead , 10,000 homeless and WS$306,000,000-worth of damage . |
| 13 | At the beginning of February 1990 cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , caused US$2,500,000-worth of damage on Niue . |
| 14 | Talking about Hamlets , I need another quotation before I begin my travels , for when it comes to research into English I have found that it is rarely possible to predict the end-point of the journey when one starts out , or whether one 's road leads anywhere at all . |
| 15 | However , it is rarely possible to define the size of the largest or smallest particles precisely in a size distribution . |
| 16 | And in the absence of someone you can legitimately blame ( it 's rarely possible to give the person firing you the sort of vitriolic tongue-lashing you 'd like to ) , you may hit out at your nearest and dearest . |
| 17 | As the clues trickle out and the town 's secrets are slowly unmasked , Lynch luxuriates over the images onscreen , focusing on tiny details a motorcycle reflected in the pupil of Laura 's eye in an old home video ; a cryptic letter ‘ R ’ dug out from underneath her fingernail in a morgue whose fluorescent lights flicker nervously that makes the show such a visual delight . |
| 18 | What we did n't eat ourselves , we shared ; the most needy receiving the most , then a descending scale for everybody else . |
| 19 | After such duplicity the shadow Scottish Secretary , Tom Clarke , was ‘ wholly right to tell the SNP we could not work with them while they behaved in such a cynical way . ’ |
| 20 | They 'll either hint I was downright dishonest to sign the contract in the first place or they 'll make out I ca n't even spell my own name . |
| 21 | When a hospital patient is unable to perform the activities of daily life for him- or herself , staff are on hand to help ; such staff are called ‘ nurses ’ , though in reality ward staff do little that requires a skilled qualified nursing background . |
| 22 | This makes it rather impractical to implement a home produced system that can read bar codes from everyday products and provide the appropriate string of text . |
| 23 | Paradoxically this makes the moral and dynastic problems in the books less taxing to young readers , because they are isolated from the pressures of their own time . |
| 24 | Presumably this identified the place as being Italy , but it might have been anywhere . |
| 25 | The same source claims that the 51 women in question consisted of the best workers in that department " ( presumably this means the most senior ) . |
| 26 | Presumably this puts the liability of the railway company up to £200 on the same level as that fixed by the common law and , on the other hand , does not deprive it of any of the defences pleadable at common law which are discussed above , e.g . |
| 27 | Presumably this eases the pain of not being able to afford the fags they would light . |
| 28 | However we were most interested to watch the girls at work one evening when they put on a display for us . |
| 29 | I would be most interested to see a copy given our substantial interests in the effects of reorganisation . |
| 30 | The exceptions to the regulations are very limited and the question of whether it is medically inadvisable to wear a seat belt , considered in Froom v Butcher , for obese or pregnant plaintiffs , or in Mackay v Borthwick [ 1982 ] CLY 2157 where the plaintiff suffered from a hiatus hernia is probably pre-empted by para 5(d) of the regulations . |