Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We would also like to record publicly our overwhelming sense of gratitude to all the hospital staff who did so much to save Jo 's life , skilfully repair the dreadful injuries and to effect a good measure of rehabilitation . |
| 2 | But they are much more akin to many modern skyscrapers : they rather symbolize the social ambitions of their makers — and the comparative difficulty of self-expression on an ample scale in the crowded streets of a medieval city . |
| 3 | Isolated , earning low wages , they mostly lose the statutory benefits which it has taken most of the century to establish — sick pay , paid holdiay , paid maternity leave , national insurance and redundancy notice and compensaiton . |
| 4 | To add to this gloomy picture of girls lagging behind boys at the top attainment levels in this country are the results of national mathematics competitions , where year after year boys overwhelmingly gain the top scores . |
| 5 | But they 're not going fast enough for some residents of nearby welland , last night at a private meeting there was suggestions that a vigilante group should take the law into their own hands and forcibly evict the remaining travellers . |
| 6 | I find that they bitterly regret the Labour party 's dogmatic commitment to repeal , contrary to the wishes of the college principals , the Bill going through the House precisely because the Opposition Front Bench are acting at the behest of a few backwoodsmen Labour county councillors throughout the country . |
| 7 | This would encourage separatism , and thereby undermine the whole integrity of the Church of England , which it had been the aim of the Tories all along to protect . |
| 8 | The victory of supporters of Rafsanjani 's " moderate " administration in the October elections for the Assembly of Experts [ see above ] , coinciding as it did with higher oil revenues and regional political developments as a result of the Gulf crisis , worked to strengthen the administration and effectively silence the Islamic regime 's " radical " wing suspicious of internal reforms and of economic and political opening to the West . |
| 9 | Some aspects of American Far Eastern policy were thus object lessons in how little influence the British might have over their own fate . |
| 10 | Then vigorously rub the right hand into your left elbow saying that you are going to rub the coin away . |
| 11 | His feet wearily repeat the old pattern , dragging him round the dance floor in a last slow spin . |
| 12 | It was this that prompted me to scrutinize Greek tragedy and thereby gain the new view of the Hellenic spirit that I have been putting forward . |
| 13 | So I know a guy for example who , when he gets his Visa bill say the last third of the month , he puts it into the envelope , and makes a note in the diary on say the twenty first , to pay the Visa bill , and when he gets to the twenty first , lo and behold , he knows where the Visa bill is and he has to pay it . |
| 14 | Not for the normal reasons : that they 're failed creators ( they usually are n't ; they may be failed critics , but that 's another matter ) ; or that they 're by nature carping , jealous and vain ( they usually are n't ; if anything , they might better be accused of over-generosity , of upgrading the second-rate so that their own fine discriminations thereby appear the rarer ) . |
| 15 | Since buyers and sellers rarely want the same paper , the banker in the middle usually dips into his bag of swaps and options to transform one side of the deal into something more conventional . |
| 16 | I rather pity the young who live in London because they must be having a particularly difficult time . |
| 17 | Glass bevels , placed throughout the composition , poignantly suggest the shattered debris from a synagogue and shop windows . |
| 18 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 19 | Unless they did so , he warned , he would abandon the bipartisan sprit of the negotiations and publicly denounce them ; he also threatened to veto all spending bills and thereby trigger the automatic Gramm-Rudman cuts . |
| 20 | and nervously steer the wobbling steels |
| 21 | Beach lovers rarely fault the International as it backs directly , down a few steps , onto the sands and sea . |
| 22 | While barter-based natural economies can coexist with monetized market economies , the latter relentlessly marginalize the former . |
| 23 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |
| 24 | As Smith points out , ‘ Conditions of conduciveness merely make the hostile outburst possible . |
| 25 | Again , self-reference , albeit of a slightly different character , is essential to the analyses of valid consent and of promising which are acts changing the normative situation because they are undertaken in the belief that they so change the normative situation . |
| 26 | If these can not be readily appreciated by children — as is often the case with young children who are typically limited to understanding tasks which make immediate sense — then children will produce inappropriate responses and apparently lack the mental capacity in question . |
| 27 | These are Australia 's national colours and so lack the prized all-American look . |
| 28 | Advocacy schemes focus on the rights , entitlements and choices of individuals , but they do not generally much influence the wider issues of the way services are planned , shaped and managed . |
| 29 | McKenna suggests that infants sleeping alone lose the external sensory stimulation that may stabilise breathing . |
| 30 | Not for a moment do I want our standards to drop and I entirely advocate the stringent standards of the Recruitment Committee . |