Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their professional achievements are so interwoven that one can not properly unravel the individual strands which make up the whole . |
| 32 | It thereby created the largest telecommunications company in Europe at the time . |
| 33 | But the Mesopotamian Jews had a firm tradition of loyalty to the Seleucids , whereas the Palestinian Jews had become part of the Syrian state only about 200 B.C. The Seleucids gladly used the Mesopotamian Jews as soldiers , and the contribution of the Babylonian Jews to the defence of their city during an enemy attack was regarded as being so famous by the author of II Maccabees that he did not think it necessary to specify the circumstances ( 8.20 ) . |
| 34 | While most environmental health officers are keenly applying the new regulations , the shortage of staff coupled with the wide range of new products and processes which have to be assessed has resulted in a somewhat irregular interpretation and application of the Act . |
| 35 | The transport system improved rapidly , and this was a source of pride to the whole country , besides enabling the different regions to exchange materials and goods . |
| 36 | Todorov then goes on to establish the primary categories of his narrative grammar , and they are proper noun , adjective and verb . |
| 37 | These then were Law 's senior colleagues in the work of opposition and would have presumably occupied the senior posts in a Law government ; they scarcely add up to the image of a party of ruthless businessmen and , if other probable ministers are added to the list — Lords Derby , Curzon , Salisbury and Crawford , together with Finlay and Cave , both lawyers — then it seems even less so . |
| 38 | In the model the Arctic ozone hole appeared as a direct result of the changes in circulation induced by both doubling the amount of CO 2 and properly representing the radiative feedbacks of the evolving ozone distribution . |
| 39 | When American diplomatic efforts included détente and co-operation with the Soviet Union , Israel skilfully used the human rights issue of Soviet Jewry as a jemmy to prise the superpowers apart in 1973 and 1977 . |
| 40 | Like Peking and Sian , the main streets here are spacious and tree-lined , but we rarely explore the back streets , which you see branching off everywhere , alley-ways where the people live in hovels which would make the slums of European cities appear spacious mansions — but even these alleyways look clean and well-cared for , in spite of their higgledy-piggledy mud- or wood- or brick-walled dwellings . |
| 41 | and nervously steer the wobbling steels |
| 42 | Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated . |
| 43 | The reflective analyst of language , however , will see that words are playing this double role and how their meaning thereby incorporates the specific values of just one possible type of society . |
| 44 | He only made the two trips to the house . ’ |
| 45 | Perhaps only the Transylvanian Valentin Bakfark ( Greff ) ( 1507–76 ) , lutenist at the Polish court , who not only made the customary transcriptions but composed ten extended fantasias packed with imitative polyphony , can be ranked with Francisco de Milano , Gintzler , and the Spaniards . |
| 46 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |
| 47 | This idea may not be suitable for a real beginner , but if anyone is really enthusiastic about cake decorating it should not take long to acquire the necessary skills , enabling them to create some lovely and different effects . |
| 48 | Still less to see the flood-lit walls of the prison . |
| 49 | Mental disturbance requiring such security is often short-lived and within a week or two the person may be well enough to enjoy the normal freedoms accorded other patients . |
| 50 | For the Balinese the ocean has always been the underworld , and source of their demons ; except for a few intrepid fishermen , they used to approach it only to scatter the cremated ashes of their dead . |
| 51 | By now he was close enough to see the red blotches erupting on her creamy skin . |
| 52 | It was one of those gorgeous early mornings when the sun has just risen but it 's still dark enough to see the brightest stars . |
| 53 | " with the view to promoting the co-operation of the two schools and the possibility of avoiding the teaching subjects in the two schools having a tendency to overlap and so bringing the two schools more fully in accord with the requirements of the town . " |
| 54 | The difficulty is that the sites which have been extensively excavated , and so produced the largest quantities of pottery , such as Corbridge and Newstead , are multi-period , and the stratification of the excavations early in the century , consequently suspect . |
| 55 | So the second factor that the Prime Minister overlooked is that the existing chamber in Strasbourg is simply not large enough to accommodate the extra numbers of Euro MPs who will be elected to the European parliament , not so much as a result of the Edinburgh agreement , but in fact as a result of the er enlargement that is in prospect . |
| 56 | On the other hand it must be subtle and flexible enough to accommodate the diverse forms of capitalist society , and to be immune to refutation by counter example . |
| 57 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 58 | I rarely used them when I was a legitimate student much preferring the local pubs . |
| 59 | As the most informative booklet points out , he only avoided the later excesses of the Nazis by conveniently dying in July 1933 . |
| 60 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |