Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many elderly people have a wide range of interests , maintain them — if only through reading — right on into old age , and still enjoy the cut and thrust of discussion and debate ; but we have to accept the fact that for some , the main topics of conversation will be their own and other people 's health , past reminiscences , and family matters . |
| 2 | Turn left on road then after 30 yds turn right on to enclosed path up steps by National Trust sign for Stockham 's Hill . |
| 3 | In stressing the more ‘ reasonable ’ or rational character of African art , Picasso was underlining the quality that distinguishes it most fundamentally from Western art . |
| 4 | It is now supported in many quarters and most importantly by disabled people themselves . |
| 5 | Thus while newspaper accounts and other sources ( including this one ) , often talk rather loosely about volcanic ‘ ashes ’ during an eruption , a vulcanologist properly restricts this term only to the smallest particles . |
| 6 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 7 | So today 's typical organization in which knowledge tends to be concentrated in service staffs , perched rather insecurely between top management and the operating people , will likely be labeled a phase , an attempt to infuse knowledge from the top rather than obtain information from below . |
| 8 | Until relatively recently central-local relationships were viewed rather simplistically in legal , institutional and financial terms . |
| 9 | In keeping with the rank-and-file strength of the movement , however , pressure was applied most effectively at local level . |
| 10 | Goblins are numerous and fight most effectively in big Mobs with many ranks — this enables the Goblins to bowl over their enemy by sheer weight of numbers . |
| 11 | Such glass is used most effectively in medieval restoration work , as well as in modern creations . |
| 12 | In which case , the random elements of a football match take charge , as well as that capacity for spreading fear which lurks most menacingly in tall , dark strikers . |
| 13 | It accounts rather inadequately for new products , where quite clearly a significant part of the task of advertising , and its main visible and measurable effect , is to spread awareness , knowledge and information about the new brand . |
| 14 | In prosperous districts too — most strikingly in central Suffolk — the labouring element was minimal , few assessments falling below £2 , and many people had their own smallholdings which , even if not always big enough to afford a really adequate livelihood , at least restricted working for wages to a subsidiary role . |
| 15 | A large , empty room with high , narrow windows through which the bright day filtered slowly on to various shades of brown . |
| 16 | Those advocating such innovations were motivated most powerfully by aesthetic considerations , in particular by the deadening effect on design of development control . |
| 17 | Rather , after that first heart-clenching moment when she saw him — so tall , so incredibly right in formal dress — she felt more wretched than ever : he was merely as courteous as the occasion demanded . |
| 18 | Most are for three months or less , right down to over-night or at call . |
| 19 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 20 | It means giving the report to someone who knows little or nothing about the actual subject and asking them to say what they do n't understand about it , right down to individual words and sentences . |
| 21 | From there they go right down to northern Spain . |
| 22 | It is impossible to see how the European Parliament , with its seventy national and political groupings , could ever form coherently enough for true parliamentary debate and opposition to take place . |
| 23 | The third lies somewhere in between local and national revenue : the National Non-domestic Rate , which replaces the business rate , but the level of which is set nationally and the proceeds of which are pooled nationally ( separately for England and Wales ) and distributed to local authorities in proportion to their populations . |
| 24 | A centralized planning system in which the centre communicates its requirements directly to the producing units can operate effectively only in brief moments of national emergency ( with its associated national consensus on priorities ) . |
| 25 | Those still in the queue peered inquisitively at the contents jumbled loosely together in brown paper wrapping . |
| 26 | Another of UnivEd 's functions is the formation of campus companies through which products and processes discovered by staff can be developed commercially together with industrial partners . |
| 27 | Of the eastern deputies who pipe up in parliament , some ( like the eloquent former communist Gregor Gysi ) are heard out with wrath , most only with amused disdain . |
| 28 | This reflect the cash from the sale of the Group 's investment in Carpet Right together with low interest rates . |
| 29 | So Anglam had been effectively entirely in American hands : they sent the trainees probably nominated the lecturers and when the time came could quietly pull out pleading changes in the American scene which the British directors could n't challenge . |
| 30 | Lydia found it remarkable that the people who fussed most about their health with particular reference to diet and exercise seemed rather ill , just as those who enthused most warmly about sexual freedom were rather plain . |