Example sentences of "[adv] the [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , of the other 20 , there is a whole miscellany , of which the most interesting concerns itself with monastic products ; however , as these are Trappist , presumably the less said , the better ! |
| 2 | Paradoxically the more advanced the technology the easier it is to provide good simulation . |
| 3 | In the end , it should not be our desire but rather the consciously felt will of our true nature , free of emotional entanglement , that remains as the sole initiator of our action . |
| 4 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 5 | He tried to fit the image around the word ‘ quaint ’ , or rather the nearest Trob equivalent , which was ‘ that pleasant oddity of design found in the little coral houses of the sponge-eating pigmies on the Orohai peninsular ’ . |
| 6 | In the meantime the relatively favoured escaped to the suburbs , leaving behind the very low paid , especially the casually employed . |
| 7 | Unfortunately this is not just because the ideas will be taken up , but also because the savaging of the universities , especially the technically minded ones , will reduce the number of ideas . |
| 8 | ‘ It was hard at first getting into the routine of doing a set programme , especially the 6am run , which started off at 30 minutes and is now at 50 . |
| 9 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 10 | In this remark , perhaps the earliest preserved utterance of an English housewife , she certainly seems to have assumed that such food would be a normal part of the family diet . |
| 11 | The long struggle of the provinces against the most powerful ruler in Europe has perhaps the best claim to be the first war of national liberation . |
| 12 | Of the four sources , statute law is perhaps the best understood and nowadays , the most extensive . |
| 13 | ALAN Watkins in The Observer is the most readable , and perhaps the best informed , of all the political commentators . |
| 14 | The triforium galleries of the nunnery at Gernrode ( 960s ) , perhaps the best preserved Ottonian church , were surely built with the same idea . |
| 15 | Bayham left what is perhaps the best preserved monastic ruin in the country . |
| 16 | The phenomenon of ‘ post-natal depression ’ is perhaps the best chronicled negative condition associated with becoming a mother . |
| 17 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 18 | Perhaps the best known play , and eventual film , about mental handicap was ‘ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg ’ based on the true-life story of Abigail , born to the playwright Peter Nichols , and born a spastic due to a difficult birth . |
| 19 | Perhaps the best known of all recent antimalarial drugs is chloroquine . |
| 20 | Perhaps the best known and most recent examples can be found in the series of Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) reports concerned with secondary , primary and special education , known as the Hargreaves , Thomas and Fish Reports ( ILEA , 1984 , 1985a , 1985b ) . |
| 21 | It has several forms — of which ‘ Geranium ’ is perhaps the best known — that are of smaller stature and more amenable to the average garden ( see pages 138 and 142 ) . |
| 22 | In the course of the 1970s various ‘ summary ’ analyses of large numbers of ‘ effectiveness ’ studies — Lipton , Martinson and Wilks ( 1975 ) and Brody ( 1976 ) being perhaps the best known — came to the same negative conclusion . |
| 23 | Trading in the shares of a target company on the basis of inside information is perhaps the best known form of insider dealing . |
| 24 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 25 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 26 | Reflexes mediated by the antennae were also discovered by Hollick ( 1940 ) to modify the path of the wing , and therefore the flight-characteristics , of Muscina , but the role of the halteres of Diptera and male Strepsiptera in controlling equilibrium during flight is perhaps the best known of these mechanisms ( Pringle , 1948 ; Schneider , 1953 ) . |
| 27 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 28 | Peterborough is perhaps the best known but March in Cambridgeshire and Gainsborough and Spalding in Lincolnshire are among many places where the railway transformed provincial towns . |
| 29 | Houseman ( 1981 ) is perhaps the best known . |
| 30 | Daniel Lehrman is perhaps the best known critic , but there were ( and are ) many more . |