Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should think the amount of money spent subsidising the residents would have seemed rather odd to members as well . |
| 2 | Once again , it accomplishes the flexibility of abstraction while potentially being translated into the most specific of things and individual demands : . |
| 3 | Records show the local constabulary to have been remarkably tolerant towards prostitutes and apparently sensitive to the sexual practices of the poor . |
| 4 | The anti-pathology effects of this vaccine are most striking in valves and patas monkeys , both of which were essentially protected from disease when unvaccinated controls developed severe lesions . |
| 5 | Both authors are rather weak on attributions and the role of assistants in Piero 's workshop a problem that also needs further investigation . |
| 6 | He also pointed out that in a survey of 1,000 " organic " farms , only 400 were wholly free of pesticides and fertilisers . |
| 7 | Even the Crowther Report was not wholly free from doubts and worries : it documented the waste of talent in the system , with only 12 per cent of each age group remaining in full-time education to the age of seventeen , and a meagre 6 per cent for a further year beyond that . |
| 8 | Of our neighbours I saw most of Robin McEwen , a man with a brilliant , mercurial mind , the most generous of hosts and companionable of men yet always hopelessly impractical : sometimes he would blow in unexpectedly to say hello , Kind Dog hat on head , green scarf billowing in the breeze , knees encased in worn plus-fours , always eager to engage in debate while taking a nip of Laphroaig against the cold . |
| 9 | Critical examination by the most reliable of tests and measurements , usually showed that they had little if any action greater than that of placebos , or that their effects on performance were deleterious rather than beneficial . |
| 10 | Employing the same double-delta wing shape as the Lockheed design , originally pioneered by the SAAB Draken , the Tu–144 suffered the most public of tragedies when it crashed at the Paris Air Show . |
| 11 | It is starkly simple and exactly states its purpose demonstrating that even the most primitive of beliefs and traditional practices are valid materials on which to build not only the style but the dramatic content of a ballet . |
| 12 | Britten happened upon an article about Crabbe , the most English of poets and the most local , by E.M . |
| 13 | ‘ Flexible , complete and enjoyable , the Streamline series makes life in the classroom a little easier for students and teachers alike . ’ |
| 14 | These are the most interesting to fishkeepers because they occur mainly in tropical areas where rivers give high rates of sediment accumulations trapping pools and lakes of brackish water . |
| 15 | John is the most interesting of companions and a convivial evening encompassing comment and opinion from some of the local worthies ensued . |
| 16 | We 're always a little doubtful about statements that have to be forced out of witnesses by revealing the extent of our prior information . ’ |
| 17 | They are overwhelmingly popular with parents and pupils and are doing much to raise standards for children of all abilities in the inner cities . |
| 18 | Even now , Day contends , advertising support is very much lower for ales than lagers , with only Whitbread 's White Label and Bass LA receiving limited trade press and below-the-line spends this year . |
| 19 | Two books are supplied with the disks , one of which can be extremely confusing at times as it applies to earlier versions of the program . |
| 20 | These barriers are especially strong for women and younger people . |
| 21 | This is a shame in a book so rich in ideas and so virtuoso in its handling of specialist terminology . |
| 22 | In addition , there are also examples of a more eclectic but " static " figural sequence , whose composite arrangements are extremely rich in figures but whose figures are linked only conceptually or are envisaged as nothing more than numerous , individual representations . |
| 23 | To alleviate its people 's plight , especially that of women and children , an appeal has been launched with the aim of getting the international community to donate $2-2.5 billion to the frontline states . |
| 24 | Lewis was so upset by accusations that he had let his fellow Welshmen win that his immediate reaction was to vow never to play again . |
| 25 | At the same time as debt service ratios stood at record levels , higher levels of capital gearing , aggravated in some circumstances by house prices falling below the level of outstanding debt , may have made lenders less tolerant of arrears and less willing to help borrowers through remortgaging . |
| 26 | He knew so little of women that he felt as though he had woken up to find himself halfway across a vast mountain in a blizzard without map or rope or compass . |
| 27 | SOPHIA Loren is greatly upset at rumours that she has had cosmetic surgery at 58 . |
| 28 | It is resistant to black sigatoka and Panama disease and is less palatable to insects and to the root-eating nematodes that afflict plantations . |
| 29 | They are highly perceptible to ratepayers and they promote accountability . |
| 30 | In cultures where the two-parent family is not the major centre for the rearing of children that it is in Western , middle-class cultures , the Oedipus complex does not develop , for the intensity of the relationships is much less strong between parents and children than in Western society . |