Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In stressing the more ‘ reasonable ’ or rational character of African art , Picasso was underlining the quality that distinguishes it most fundamentally from Western art .
2 It is now supported in many quarters and most importantly by disabled people themselves .
3 Thus while newspaper accounts and other sources ( including this one ) , often talk rather loosely about volcanic ‘ ashes ’ during an eruption , a vulcanologist properly restricts this term only to the smallest particles .
4 Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) .
5 So today 's typical organization in which knowledge tends to be concentrated in service staffs , perched rather insecurely between top management and the operating people , will likely be labeled a phase , an attempt to infuse knowledge from the top rather than obtain information from below .
6 Until relatively recently central-local relationships were viewed rather simplistically in legal , institutional and financial terms .
7 In keeping with the rank-and-file strength of the movement , however , pressure was applied most effectively at local level .
8 Goblins are numerous and fight most effectively in big Mobs with many ranks — this enables the Goblins to bowl over their enemy by sheer weight of numbers .
9 Such glass is used most effectively in medieval restoration work , as well as in modern creations .
10 In which case , the random elements of a football match take charge , as well as that capacity for spreading fear which lurks most menacingly in tall , dark strikers .
11 It accounts rather inadequately for new products , where quite clearly a significant part of the task of advertising , and its main visible and measurable effect , is to spread awareness , knowledge and information about the new brand .
12 In prosperous districts too — most strikingly in central Suffolk — the labouring element was minimal , few assessments falling below £2 , and many people had their own smallholdings which , even if not always big enough to afford a really adequate livelihood , at least restricted working for wages to a subsidiary role .
13 Those advocating such innovations were motivated most powerfully by aesthetic considerations , in particular by the deadening effect on design of development control .
14 Rather , after that first heart-clenching moment when she saw him — so tall , so incredibly right in formal dress — she felt more wretched than ever : he was merely as courteous as the occasion demanded .
15 It is impossible to see how the European Parliament , with its seventy national and political groupings , could ever form coherently enough for true parliamentary debate and opposition to take place .
16 ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) .
17 Though fever and diarrhoea still linger as killing diseases in parts of southern and south-eastern Europe , and malaria was only beginning to give way before D.D.T. in 1945 these diseases now linger on only in backward districts .
18 A centralized planning system in which the centre communicates its requirements directly to the producing units can operate effectively only in brief moments of national emergency ( with its associated national consensus on priorities ) .
19 Those still in the queue peered inquisitively at the contents jumbled loosely together in brown paper wrapping .
20 Another of UnivEd 's functions is the formation of campus companies through which products and processes discovered by staff can be developed commercially together with industrial partners .
21 Of the eastern deputies who pipe up in parliament , some ( like the eloquent former communist Gregor Gysi ) are heard out with wrath , most only with amused disdain .
22 The Government 's policy is like an ailing comedy , carry on , except it 's carry on regardless of professional and public opinion .
23 The administration seems determined to press on regardless with financial deregulation , but the 10% ceiling may well be raised only gradually .
24 They wandered on together at random .
25 This reflect the cash from the sale of the Group 's investment in Carpet Right together with low interest rates .
26 But perhaps worse was to come , because for many years the redevelopment of the Circus dragged on indecisively through revised traffic calculations , and scheme after scheme was prepared afresh .
27 So Anglam had been effectively entirely in American hands : they sent the trainees probably nominated the lecturers and when the time came could quietly pull out pleading changes in the American scene which the British directors could n't challenge .
28 Lydia found it remarkable that the people who fussed most about their health with particular reference to diet and exercise seemed rather ill , just as those who enthused most warmly about sexual freedom were rather plain .
29 It showed most obviously in certain political institutions , above all the sovereign state and representative government , in some central ideas , of which the most potent were ultimately drawn from Christianity or the Enlightenment , and in a powerful technology , based on experimental science .
30 The non-Roman , Eastern influence on the Celtic Church manifested itself most obviously in Irish monasticism .
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