Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it quite obvious on second thoughts that even in the most literal usages the visual metaphor is wholly dead ; however accurately ‘ insight ’ may be defined in a dictionary , could I handle the word with any confidence without being guided by its grammatical and semantic affinities with ‘ sight ’ ? |
| 2 | The most interesting shows the upper part of a woman wrapped in a cloak , who was evidently standing in profile but turns her Daedalic face to us . |
| 3 | For the three most risky junctions the mean correlation between risk rating and P(A) is positive and significant , r=0.80 , df=12 , p<0.01 . |
| 4 | It was founded as recently as 1984 , but within only three years the four young players had established an international reputation — a reputation which is now extraordinarily high . |
| 5 | The immediate choice of king by those Northumbrians responsible for the murder of Aethelred was the ‘ patrician ’ , Osbald , but others recalled Eardwulf , son of Eardwulf , from exile and after only twenty-seven days the royal household and nobles deserted Osbald and he was forced to flee , sailing from Lindisfarne to the kingdom of the Picts as Alhred had done from Bamburgh before him . |
| 6 | There were two jangling mistakes from Horner giving away early penalty points to Soutter , and after only 11 minutes the former champion had pocketed the first game with a good backhand drop from a short ball . |
| 7 | Notice that we have said nothing yet about the possibility of actually deciding , in a given instance , which of the two mutually exclusive classes the posited existent belongs to . |
| 8 | As with so many things the useful point is between the extremes . |
| 9 | In so many areas the advance man ( who may or may not be the same as the event organiser ) has the on-the-spot knowledge which headquarters staff or the committee can never have — and it 's a mistake not to get the maximum use from it . |
| 10 | We know more about movie-going in Chicago than about any other city and this is appropriate for it was in so many ways the symbolic city of those last decades before the First World War . |
| 11 | Since the monarchy is in so many respects the visible representation of the nation , the merest whiff of criticism draws the fire of every tub-thumping little Englander with access to a microphone . |
| 12 | In environments with seasonally poor supplies the large troop hoovering its way across the countryside would however soon clean up the food and many individuals would not get enough to eat . |
| 13 | In particular , we have shown examples where a tax on capital income may be shifted completely , and have demonstrated that in less extreme cases the effective redistribution may be very much reduced in the long run as a result of adjustments in the capital stock . |
| 14 | In only five years the Catholic population of the diocese of Dili has increased from 280,000 to 540,000 . |
| 15 | Fifty million people breathe air containing more than 10 times the permitted level of pollutants ; 60 million more breathe in five times the permitted level of pollutants . |
| 16 | Below Roaring Springs the real desert starts . |
| 17 | It were more or less open tides the high tides used to come over and down here , it all used . |
| 18 | However , in less prosperous areas the large exactions were , for many , such a burden that they still lived at subsistence level . |
| 19 | In less experienced viewers the perceptual cycle centred much more upon attempts to confirm existing hypotheses than upon exploration . |
| 20 | No one mentioned the latter point and only four teachers the former . |
| 21 | Leapor 's death preceded by only two months the first appearances of her work in print . |
| 22 | For aligned transversely isotropic elements the self-consistent method gives ( Walpole 1969 ) the relations : where the quantities c , p , m , k are as defined above ( Equation 4.17 ) and v , E are Poisson 's ratio and Young 's modulus respectively . |
| 23 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 24 | John Bratby R A A Retrospective , Gray Art Gallery , Clarence Road , Hartlepool ( Until April OVER the years they have been more than just good friends the Gray Art Gallery , in Hartlepool , and John Bratby , founder member of the ‘ Kitchen Sink School ’ , and , since 1971 , a full member of the Royal Academy . |
| 25 | Are not those figures the best in the whole of England ? |
| 26 | Perhaps some of the voice teaching was repetitive in the second term , but when there was a change in voice tutor who developed pieces of your own choice rather than just vocal exercises the whole thing came alive and interesting . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't think you 've thanked me yet for not pressing charges the other day . ’ |
| 28 | In just 15 minutes the connecting rods , piston and foot-valve can be pulled by hand through the pump head . |
| 29 | From these rather brief suggestions the New Critics built up a much more definite and systematic theory of the literary text , and of the relationship between text , author and reader . |
| 30 | It was from him that Rostov learned that under normal circumstances the whole camp would have moved about two hundred verst to the north during the late afternoon and through the night — probably all the way to Pesth — but that a full day 's rest had been ordered by the Khan . |