Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yesterday 's blast was seen less as a direct attempt on the police chief who has most vigorously pursued Colombia 's leading cocaine exporters , but as part of a campaign to terrorise non-combatants in the drug war into supporting negotiations and amnesty . |
| 32 | Yesterday 's blast was seen less as a direct attempt on the man who has most vigorously pursued Colombia 's chief cocaine exporters , but as part of a campaign to terrorise non-combatants in the drug war into supporting negotiations and amnesty . |
| 33 | In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam . |
| 34 | To these points I must agree that it appears that the NIH has most reprehensibly sought to exploit the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) crisis to its own ends . |
| 35 | Since then the Debenham Players has most definitely grown in size and support , the productions get better each time but still the members run the whole thing by themselves be it from costume making and lighting to front of house and stage construction . |
| 36 | The primary products in which the UK has most obviously become a net exporter are oil and gas . |
| 37 | It is in the development of specific accounting procedures that the US and UK experience has most obviously diverged . |
| 38 | It is the evaluators ' impression that the responsibility for producing agendas , convening and chairing meetings , and producing and circulating minutes has most often fallen to the Principal Adviser for Educational Resources and the ACL:E&SS but has remained throughout an area of uncertainty and indecision . |
| 39 | Research to date has most often used either a failure of the life-cycle model ( usually with excess sensitivity to income ) to infer credit market restrictions or , using micro data , has separated households into unconstrained and potentially constrained using prior information . |
| 40 | Jean Baudrillard , one of the leading commentators on postmodernist culture , sees America as the society where postmodernism has most fully developed . |
| 41 | I think we tend to forget that we are willing to trust the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , who in recent years has most usually doubled as the Chairman of the Conservative Party a very dubious appointment no doubt in the minds of many er of er your Lordships House . |
| 42 | Yet the market-led demand for foreign language courses , particularly in view of 1992 , has most certainly resulted in an increasing shortage of language tutors everywhere . |
| 43 | What Dunadd has most provocatively to offer is a hollowed out bowl in one slab of rock , accompanied by carvings of a boar , the outline of a footprint , and several lines of ogam inscription . |
| 44 | Attention has most recently focused on ensuring competition in regulated public sectors such as telecommunications , postal services , gas and electricity . |
| 45 | Our future lies in further developing the appeal of our outstanding portfolio of brands with consumers all over the world . |
| 46 | But the way to peace lies in truly following Jesus . |
| 47 | It is this environment of faith in the home that western society needs so desperately to recover . |
| 48 | Furlanetto highlights so far include Don Alfonso in and an extraordinary ‘ double ’ — as the Count for Sir Colin Davis ( BMG/RAC ) , and Figaro for James Levine ( DG ) . |
| 49 | Anyone who argues that the demand for reactionary comedy died with Benny Hill has obviously never played the provincial circuit . |
| 50 | Moreover , as Scheingold ( Scheingold , 1974 , p. 95 ) has somewhat bitterly commented , in the light of his experience with American civil rights test cases , even judicially acknowledged rights should still be treated as contingent resources and not accomplished social facts . |
| 51 | For such special knowledge holds the potential for an ethnographic interpretation of police culture which incorporates aspects of ‘ practical mastery ’ ( Bourdieu 1977 ) and to enlarge on what Kuper ( 1973 : 238 ) has somewhat critically dismissed as ‘ the prissy sterility of much of the methodological or reformist sociology ’ . |
| 52 | It was probably this occasion which prompted Lloyd George to write of Balfour : ‘ I confess that I underrated the passionate attachment to his country which burnt under that calm , indifferent , and apparently frigid exterior ’ ; upon which Balfour 's latest biographer has somewhat severely commented : ‘ By ‘ passionate attachment to his country , ’ Lloyd George , presumably meant Balfour 's backing for him as Prime Minister … ’ |
| 53 | of the posts identified , but , even though it has done very well , it has somewhat further to go . |
| 54 | But experience tells us that adaptive behaviour most often reflects the intelligence of evolution rather than that of the animals it has so carefully programmed . |
| 55 | The pictures Sir Oliver has so meticulously measured and recorded may not be the most distinguished in the Royal Collection , but this volume is every bit as informative as the others in the series . |
| 56 | Even President-elect Bill Clinton could not contain his dismay last week after IBM Corp announced that business in Europe was so bad that the company would at best break even in the current quarter — and prescribed only more of the same medicine that has so signally failed to save the situation up to now . |
| 57 | 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ . |
| 58 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 59 | And that is why , despite its problems , it has so doggedly persisted . |
| 60 | I brought in from my car the gastric lavage outfit I loved so well and which has so sadly disappeared from my life . |