Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The enfant terrible , energiser — and arguably the originator of today 's Metropolitan Museum — publishes his memoirs this month |
2 | Even though Jennifer Capriati produced arguably the performance of the tournament when she beat world champion Monica Seles in the quarter finals at Key Biscayne , there was the strongest feeling still that her new partnership with Steffi Graf 's former coach , Pavel Slozil , could not work . |
3 | Thus Baudelaire , arguably the godfather of aesthetic modernism , broke with the foundationalist assumptions of realism to celebrate the transitory , the fleeting , the contingent . |
4 | Agatha was arguably the daughter of King Stephen of Hungary , or of Bruno , brother of the German Emperor Henry II , or of a half-brother of the Emperor Henry III , or of none of them . |
5 | Moreover , popular culture was the subject , and arguably the condition of existence , of high modernist culture . |
6 | Arguably the process of centralization which has taken place could be presented as a necessary precursor to the decentralization of power which is desired . |
7 | Arguably the appointment of an administrator for the more advantageous realisation of the company 's assets than a winding-up has this effect since this constitutes a virtual cessation of business . |
8 | Wright 's winner against his old club needed no hyperbole and was arguably THE highlight of a soccer-saturated weekend when Sky 's £304 million alliance with the BBC clearly came top of the entertainment stakes , if not the viewing figures . |
9 | I am dubious about their confidence that British industry is already experienced in a wide range of PWR work , and has technical and manufacturing competence at the levels ready to receive successfully the transfer of information specific to PWR components . |
10 | Ivanov was capable of using his considerable social skills to cultivate and subsequently exploit successfully the acquaintance of a susceptible person engaged in strategic work . |
11 | If Paul were to challenge successfully the adherents of Tammuz , Jesus would have to be able to match the older god , miracle for miracle . |
12 | In the coming year , every one of us must raise the level of our performance , enhance our personal skills and ensure that we meet successfully the challenges of the current market and our planned expansion . |
13 | In order to work successfully the notion of Partnership through Compact must involve all the personnel in the participating organisations including trade unions . |
14 | Indirect Rule had far more ideological content than the Punjab creed : it was found necessary ceaselessly to draw attention — perhaps because it was a principle coming to be so explicitly disputed by those to whom it was applied — to the long and careful weaning required for the native to shed his primitive mode of thinking and adopt successfully the ways of the modern world . |
15 | Additionally , the project has also been able to localise successfully the disruption to those tasks in which the order of information has to be preserved . |
16 | Even if the catechisms of ‘ correct thought ’ are updated and find new roots , and old upbeat endings are set to more popular and contemporary tunes , they will not be able to generate the more intricate models or maps which are required to confront successfully the types of racism which are evidenced by our two transcripts . |
17 | Shildon reminded him that it was not wholly the fruit of his investigation for Eliot , he had a head start because he used to work for MacQuillan in Detroit . |
18 | The Labour government , then , was not wholly the prisoner of dogma . |
19 | The Labour party has attracted largely but not wholly the support of the working class , and the Conservative party that of the middle class . |
20 | Thus in the light of much which has been surveyed here , it is impossible to view overmanning — the bane of British industry — as mainly if not wholly the consequence of union power . |
21 | The path has to be found between making an exquisite distillation , using a chemistry wholly the property of the observer and his audience , and presenting arguments as they occur , fragmented , irregular . |
22 | 1.6 It is the Department 's policy that unless the member of staff and manager concerned make a case to the contrary , it will press for charges to be brought against an assailant while recognising that such a decision is wholly the province of the Procurator Fiscal following report by the police ( there being no scope for private criminal prosecution in Scotland ) . |
23 | A visiting fossilist from Aberdeenshire drew Johnson 's attention to a species of ash tree , enabling the great man to support his recurring arboreal obsession : ‘ The present nakedness of the Hebrides is not wholly the fault of Nature . ’ |
24 | Elected for Northamptonshire to the second Protectorate Parliament ( 1656–8 ) , he was prominent in the debates over the alleged ‘ horrid blasphemy ’ at Bristol of the Quaker James Nayler [ q.v. ] , revealing thereby the limitations of his own toleration . |
25 | So far we have considered man-made materials where the composition reflects the processing , but the composition of materials such as stones and gems , which were used without chemical modification , can also sometimes indicate their source , and thereby the authenticity of artefacts made from them . |
26 | Costs and revenues are traced to these centres and compared with planned costs and revenues : thereby the performance of managers and their centres can be measured . |
27 | Sandor Rado , in an article devoted to the elucidation of manic-depressive disorders , expresses the opinion that ‘ At the bottom of the melancholiac 's profound dread of impoverishment there is really simply a dread of starvation … drinking at the mother 's breast remains the radiant image of unremitting , forgiving love , ’ and he adds that ‘ It is certainly no mere chance that the Madonna nursing the Child has become the emblem of a mighty religion and thereby the emblem of a whole epoch in our Western civilization . |
28 | New drug delivery systems could make use of the interactive facility of the ocular glycoproteins and the corneal surface to prolong the retention of , and thereby the bioavailability of , drugs . |
29 | The copyholder , often equated with the poor peasant farmer , might well have been every bit as much a rentier as the lord of the manor , especially if a gentleman or wealthy townsman , earning thereby the disapprobation of Robert Crowley : |
30 | In 1912 , Key wrote of the women 's movement as ideally winning back ‘ the wife to the husband , the mother to the children , and thereby the home to all ’ . |