Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of the contrast most commonly given use relative clauses as in ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , containing a restrictive and a non-restrictive relative , respectively : ( 1 ) silk which comes from Thailand is taxed more heavily than Malaysian silk ( 2 ) silk , which is a natural fibre , incurs less tax than artificial fabrics There are , of course , certain linguistic devices in English which can help to indicate which interpretation is intended ( though surprisingly few , given that the difference in effect can sometimes be considerable ) . |
| 2 | Soaking : A valuable technique rarely fully exploited . |
| 3 | Aleksandrova rather confusingly calls the northern and southern belts arctic tundra and subarctic tundra , separating them by the 6°C July isotherm . |
| 4 | The isotope most commonly used for measurement of colonic transit is 9 9 m Tc-DTPA in liquid form , or it may also be incorporated into ispaghula husk to simulate the physical properties of faeces more closely . |
| 5 | Nothing would , in our belief , conduce more to the unity and harmony of the nation than a public policy directed to the provision of equal intellectual opportunities for all , and service to this end would be doubly effective if it came voluntarily as from those who have already received their inheritance , and desire to share with the rest of their countrymen that in which their life and freedom most truly consist . |
| 6 | The variety of routes taken by couples make it impossible to track the course most frequently taken . |
| 7 | ‘ Twenty Years Ago ’ , which conveys the sense of a generational decline , is the slogan most commonly employed . |
| 8 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 9 | At the other , encoders wishing to ensure that their texts can be used for the widest range of applications , will want provide a level of detailed documentation approximating to the kind most often supplied in the form of a manual . |
| 10 | A companion analysis of findings from samples of eligible women in Colombia also revealed prolapse to be the gynaecological malady most closely associated with parity . |
| 11 | Snell has been criticized for causing a decline in handwriting by promoting his dull copperplate style , but his practice and teaching of a simpler and standardized mode of handwriting most effectively met the needs of clerks in the growing number of commercial houses . |
| 12 | NB : A sentence imposed by a court outside Great Britain shall betreated as a sentence most nearly corresponding with a Great Britain sentence . |
| 13 | Rhys 's five-year-old sister Charly also has the condition and for her it is too late . |
| 14 | Rhys 's five-year-old sister Charly also has the condition and for her it is too late . |
| 15 | The area of the curriculum most commonly given a corner of its own was reading . |
| 16 | The à la glace or freezing method was invented by Armand Walfart in 1884 and is still the method of dégorgement most commonly used today . |
| 17 | The drug most widely used is nystatin . |
| 18 | Rare transatlantic vagrant , drake most easily told by conspicuous white patch at back of head ; darker duck has much smaller white patch behind eye . |
| 19 | Pure platinum could readily be shaped by hammering , the technique most commonly found on prehistoric nose-rings from Colombia , but its high melting point ( 1775C ) put casting the pure metal beyond the reach of early smiths . |
| 20 | The popular broadsheet category eventually almost disappeared , however , as one by one the popular broadsheets changed their format to tabloid ( see Table 3.4 ) . |
| 21 | There is a need to create a climate in which all problems facing the community , including the unfortunate death of Stompie Moeketsi Seipei la committed young lion who has made an immense contribution in the mobilisation of our youth and people in the struggle ) will be discussed to foster unity rather then let the enemy use them to achieve its ends . |
| 22 | Your patha and physiological toxins are often sub-unital structure and they make the most , the momegictiture most widely used is an A plus B sub-unit structure . |
| 23 | The first instance most commonly occurs when a group of students complete training at the same time . |
| 24 | As with the guided tours current staffing levels mean that the time spent on preparation etc. further adds to the strain on the system . |
| 25 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 26 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 27 | Packets of the mixed white and orange-brown powder most strongly implicated in this case each contained an average of 105 mg of inorganic arsenic trioxide ( As 2 O 3 ) . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the particular division most often invoked in contemporary political rhetoric concerning private and public property is misleading with regard to this issue , since the concept of private property suggests a close relationship between person and thing , whilst in practice private property is an institution which works to produce precisely the opposite effect . |
| 29 | There is no agreed tariff , but money most certainly changes hands . |
| 30 | Where the rugs of a particular group fall into more than one price category , they have been included in the category most closely associated with their rugs ; their percentage costs in relation to the yardstick items indicate the range of qualities . |