Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is note-worthy that of all Charles 's ministers the one who most forcibly asserted rights of this kind , Pedro Rodriquez Campomanes , was also the one least influenced by ‘ enlightened ’ ideas , which in Spain were very much a foreign , overwhelmingly French , import . |
| 2 | LC expressed levels of E-cadherin as high as those expressed by the most intensely stained KC . |
| 3 | Their success in gripping the public mind can be compared today only to the most avidly watched television programmes . |
| 4 | This effect has been most noticeable , for obvious reasons , in the most highly capitalized forms of production . |
| 5 | Interestingly , however , the most highly conserved regions of the protein are in the less well understood amino terminus , strongly suggesting that this portion of the protein is critical for its function . |
| 6 | For example , some colleges will offer only EFL while others , mainly those in the adult education sector , concentrate on highly subsidized ESOL courses . |
| 7 | Even at the most constantly watched setts , the badgers can sometimes become nervous if they catch the scent of a stranger , particularly if there are none of the usual human visitors present either . |
| 8 | For example , regarding prostitutes , the most crucially sexualized women of the time , questions were asked concerning the size of their genitalia , and various medical projects were embarked upon to prove that an enlarged clitoris was a sign of a tendency to prostitution ( in the same way that phrenologists were measuring criminals ' heads ) . |
| 9 | Bradshaw rather unwisely greeted McLean 's arrival in the ring by nutting him . |
| 10 | As things turned out , however , the unemployment rate in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s only rarely exceeded 2% , there being no tangible evidence of an acceleration of inflation until after 1967 . |
| 11 | After a few bars of dialogue between Orfeo and the shepherds , Dafne returns with her tragic news which she recites in strikingly contrasted tones : which is followed by recitative conversation between Euridice , Orfeo , Dafne , and the shepherds . |
| 12 | Not all problems have gone away of course : yesterday 's £6.4 billion public sector borrowing requirement is not much higher than expectations , but it is almost as large as the deficit for the previous 11 months and — with this year 's deficit forecast to be double last year 's — shows why the Bank of England so eagerly sold £2 billion or more of gilts on election night and why it needs a regular stream of massive sales . |
| 13 | At half-back Richard Hill is the man with the reputation against the less highly rated Rob Glenister . |
| 14 | I saw it and obviously so did Arnold , but nobody else could have . |
| 15 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 16 | The old man replied with a toothless grin , yelling in thickly accented Bajan : ‘ You man , back back . ’ |
| 17 | For so long dedicated Microsoft Windows users had very few decent database packages to choose from . |
| 18 | This must be the watchword of the Western democracies who have so painfully and yet so necessarily dismantled Saddam Hussein 's war machine , at such a cost in lives and scarce resources . |
| 19 | So greatly did Keir take us into her confidence that , by the end of the evening , we felt like old muckers . |
| 20 | A , a big pond and used for watering erm the cattle and erm then it silted up and erm got neglected and people naturally just threw things into it . |
| 21 | My torch failed , and I found my hands too cold to fix it , so just followed Charlie 's light from stance to stance . |
| 22 | And I so desperately wanted children . |
| 23 | Surprise that he should know her sister so well , so soon made Claudia lift her head . |
| 24 | I had some guys come up , and they were , they were really pissed off with me because , my mum sort of like , this guy just done this with th th the stall next door , but he left some stuff that he obviously already had things of , which he did n't think it was worth him buying , and this guy came round , and they were obviously from one of these , you know how you get erm , secondhand erm record stores |
| 25 | The possibilities of choice are rather less in the most obviously vocationally oriented degrees , such as Architecture , Housing Studies and Nursing Studies , but some freedom of action is still possible . |
| 26 | She was carrying a small spear and only just had time to raise it and thrust it at the Scarag . |
| 27 | We only just got word and they better not find your Kevin . ’ |
| 28 | Lancaster only just tolerated Douglas 's interference , partly for old time 's sake and partly because Lancaster admired Kirk for daring to slight Hollywood 's conservatives by openly using blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus . |
| 29 | My dad was n't a tall man and it only just covered Quigley 's enormous willy . |
| 30 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |