Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put such an effort into perspective , it is necessary first to investigate cross-culturally the various different conceptions of ‘ objectivity ’ and different means of attaining it . |
| 2 | Arguably the only practical advantage in embalming was that it could reveal whether or not a person had been suffering from catalepsy . |
| 3 | Indeed arguably the only reliable evidence of who has given money to the Tory Party is the honours list which is published twice a year ! |
| 4 | Our story begins in India , where in 1885 what was arguably the only significant nationalist organization with which the British ever had to contend , the Indian National Congress , was founded by — an Englishman . |
| 5 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |
| 6 | Arguably the indirect consular channel , like the modes of transmission still to be noted , is solely a creature of conventions . |
| 7 | to explore how courts apply the duty imposed by the Child Care Act 1980 to give the child 's welfare first and paramount consideration ; 2. to examine the practices in use for providing magistrates with impartial information ; 3. to discover whether parents ' solicitors experience difficulties in getting background history of cases from Social Services Departments ; 4. to judge whether parents at are a disadvantage in court ; 5. to monitor how solicitors conduct their cases , and how they emply the various possible lines of argument of the Code of Practice on Access ; 6. to discuss the underlying attitudes of the magistrates and social workers towards access to children in care , the reasons for their viewpoints and whether the publication of the Code caused them to change any of their positions . |
| 8 | Thanks , initially , to Winckelmann , Greece and thereby the whole ancient world took on a new fascination which resulted in a new kind of scholar with a new kind of scholarly aim : the reconstruction of antiquity in all its real detail . |
| 9 | To air : are predominantly the volatile organic compounds [ ie , those which evaporate in air at normal temperatures ] . |
| 10 | Thankfully the floating grey pods which occasionally appear contain handy weapon power-ups and extra lives . |
| 11 | This style of painting was obviously very popular but thankfully the English developed landscape painting away from the picturesque reaching their apogee with Turner and Constable . |
| 12 | Additionally the controversial fast breeder and high temperature reactor projects are being re-examined . |
| 13 | A further point to note is that the extreme left-hand columns in both table 6.4 and table 6.5 are empty and additionally the extreme right-hand column in table 6.5 is empty ; this is because these ‘ extreme ’ realizations occur only in the inner-city areas . |
| 14 | My own favourite example of this attack , and the contradictions that came with it , was that as Council members we were asked both to take pride in an NEA-sponsored and adulatory film about the graffiti that were then disfiguring the New York City subway system , and to support lavishly the great American museums whose distinguished collections were ( and remain ) a standing rebuke to the so-called experimental art of which graffiti were then such a beguiling component . |
| 15 | Some heavy medicine was required if Eric was n't to wreck single-handedly the entire Scottish telephone network and decimate the country 's canine population . |
| 16 | Yet presumably the grand unified theory has determined that the authors think they were correct . |
| 17 | For reasons which are not yet clear — presumably the pre-marketing clinical studies were considered inadequate — Dista was collaborating in a series of research projects to discover how the bodies of elderly patients cope with Opren . |
| 18 | Presumably the major mediating factors are the teachers , and the school , concerned . |
| 19 | Slowly the total blinding pain broke down into individual centres of hurt . |
| 20 | He had noticed before how slowly the British matured . |
| 21 | In the rubber-like state or in the melt the chains are in relatively rapid motion , but as the temperature is lowered the movement becomes progressively slower until eventually the available thermal energy is insufficient to overcome the rotational energy barriers in the chain . |
| 22 | The programme was presented to the Heads of Government at a summit meeting in Milan in June 1985 and eventually the Single European Act came into force in July 1987 . |
| 23 | Eventually the Scottish Typographical Association was founded on a lasting basis in 1853 , composed of branches in towns where there was a moderate degree of printing activity . |
| 24 | The Lincolns played an integral part in the overall harassment of the communist offensive campaign and were effectively the only permanent heavy bomber unit in Malaya . |
| 25 | On Oct. 9 Radovan Karadzic and Mate Boban , effectively the respective Bosnian Serb and Croatian leaders in Bosnia-Hercegovina , agreed at the permanent Geneva conference on Yugoslavia to a temporary ceasefire , further fuelling rumours that Serbians and Croats were working together to isolate Moslems . |
| 26 | The sink was squared-off and old fashioned , with a white splashback and a tilting mirror ; Forester switched on the fluorescent shaving light and tried to tip the mirror to look at himself , but it would n't stay in place until he found out how to tighten a chrome-plated hexagonal nut on the hinge . |
| 27 | If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures . |
| 28 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 29 | An illustration of the complex pattern of cross-party allegiances in the early 1690s is provided by the stance taken on the abortive Triennial Bill of 1693 . |
| 30 | Paul Warren put on the usual impressive display in the Grumman Tigercat , Norman Lees flew David Gilmour 's Mustang N51RR and Peter Henley put Mosquito T.III RR299/G-ASKH through its paces in a smooth , co-ordinated display showing the lines of this classic British World War Two aircraft . |