Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scottish National Party deputy leader , Allan Macartney , said that Highlands and Islands needs had been accentuated by recent job losses , and forecast : ‘ The UK will never press our case for regional funding as effectively as we could . |
| 2 | The times are hard and there is a terrific struggle still ahead . |
| 3 | Immediately an expected date of discharge from hospital is known , inform the Department of Health and Social Security so that any pensions , benefits and allowances to which your parent is entitled may be restored to the normal level as soon as possible . |
| 4 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 5 | Even without this problem , it should be our objective to advance negotiations , contract drafting and due diligence as far as possible with the preferred bidder before the remaining offerers realise that they have been unsuccessful . |
| 6 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 7 | With more than 130 successful wines to choose from , it would be a very pleasant experience indeed just trying to find out what it is that makes a good wine a winner , observed one Winemark spokesman . |
| 8 | Narrow paved streets that are little more than alleys wind informally round a low ridge once densely packed with houses . |
| 9 | The strong link then still existing between Methodism and the episcopal Church is evident in the fact that so many Methodist names are recorded in these Parish registers . |
| 10 | Working in this way , with a little practice you will be able to build a complete chart very quickly . |
| 11 | This is our economic argument : a path to personal enrichment from the fruits of economic progress more widely shared . |
| 12 | A further 6,000 soldiers from Nigeria 's army were demobbed at the end of June , bringing the total reduction so far to 15,000 . |
| 13 | This outline does not fit the European experience very well , let alone that of developing countries . |
| 14 | Having followed the decline in the number of cases of gonorrhoea into the middle fifties , syphilis , in contrast , has remained at a comparatively low level ever since . |
| 15 | As far emerging technologies go , Rothstein says although the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment may well become part of a common distributed infrastructure , he claims it is still on a very low level as far as developers are concerned . |
| 16 | Sir Geoffrey , in a fashionable high-necked flannel undershirt leads his wife by the hand out from the niche , he inquisitive and she pensive , but both with their right foot firmly forward . |
| 17 | You lift your head and arch your back and , at the same time , you lift your right foot as far off the ground as you can ( while keeping your leg straight ) . |
| 18 | Economists worry that even higher rates would make a prolonged recession much more likely than at present . |
| 19 | A study by Harris , Sofianos and Shapiro ( 1990 ) of programme trading on the NYSE in June 1989 found evidence that programme trading occurs when the basis ( the difference between the futures and spot prices ; see Chapter 6 ) is wide , and that the programme trading is followed by the basis closing to its usual level within about 15 minutes . |
| 20 | Growth in earnings per share is the key short-term measure so far as the City is concerned . |
| 21 | ONLY days after the European Community summit agreed to convene a conference next year to change the EC constitution and prepare for monetary union , demands were raised by EC leaders yesterday for a second such conference to extend the powers of the European Parliament even further . |
| 22 | That the European parliament in fact led by Conservative members of the European parliament very often on this issue had argued strongly that Brussels should be a single meeting place for the European parliament . |
| 23 | Unemployment and low wages will mean low local buying power , infrastructure of all kinds will remain relatively undeveloped , and low rates of investment will hold back technical progress thus further disadvantaging the region . |
| 24 | The tomb consisted of an oblong brick vault with an arched roof high enough to allow a person buried in it to sit up with care when visited by the two examining angels , Munkar and Nekeer . |
| 25 | Even though it was high morning , the light was dim and artificial outside as acres of arched roof far above kept out the Canadian weather . |
| 26 | In fact , it 's all been a bit of a downhill coast ever since ! ’ |
| 27 | This unfortunate crusade was not a total loss as far as Barbarossa was concerned , for it set the political and feudal scene for his election as Emperor within a short time of his return to Germany . |
| 28 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 29 | The boundaries of that part of the working classes — it might overlap with the independent craftsmen , shopkeeper and even the small entrepreneur — which was coming to be recognised as a social and political force pretty well coincided with those of the world of clubs — Mutual Aid Societies , fraternal benevolent orders ( generally with strong rituals ) , choirs , gymnastic or sports clubs , even voluntary religious organisations at one extreme , labour unions and political associations at the other . |
| 30 | As Professor S.F. Bush said in The Times ( 7 October 1991 ) , it was the commercial banks not the Bank of England which generated the credit explosion in 1987–89 : ‘ A central bank , whether independent or not , is an almost total irrelevance as far as inflation is concerned in a world dominated by thousands of different monetary agencies switching assets and liabilities across the world at the touch of a button . ’ |