Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , status may form the basis of political power — Weber saw this as especially relevant in the case of the German Junker aristocracy , who were economically weak but still held the reins of political power . |
| 2 | In any case Napoleon III was not worried by Austria ; economically weak and diplomatically isolated as a result of her erratic policy during the Crimean War , she was no threat to France . |
| 3 | He moved a little nearer but still kept close to cover . |
| 4 | But because it is essentially Brose 's show , the biggest should go to Mr Hoffman , who must be reckoned one of the most agile and subtly controlled comedians around . |
| 5 | Chlorinated hydrocarbons , which are some of the most persistent and environmentally damaging of the industrial chemicals , and the industrial organochlorides known as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) , are particularly soluble in fatty tissues . |
| 6 | It is not possible or useful to provide an encyclopaedic account of the collectivities existing ‘ within ’ the economic classes in Britain but this section pursues the analysis of two rather broad and vaguely defined , yet nonetheless politically and culturally important , social collectivities : the ‘ working class ’ and the ‘ middle class ’ , as these terms are used by ‘ ordinary people ’ and formalised by sociologists . |
| 7 | Helen Urvill , elegantly tall and judiciously lean , straight thick hair obsidian black , dress combat-casual , back on holiday from Switzerland and looking as thoroughly kempt as ever , passed the lager can to me . |
| 8 | We have never paddled at night and are a little apprehensive but soon learn what we have been missing . |
| 9 | GEOFF BANKS : ’ Quite the most striking and uniquely designed piece of fun-wear I 've seen in years . ’ |
| 10 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 11 | Intensely shy but always wanting to be good , she went round the ‘ table ’ , kissing each one of us and hoping for a hug in return . |
| 12 | Set in Chile , men and women , spirits , the forces of nature and history come together in an unforgettable , wholly absorbing and brilliantly realised epic drawn from Allende 's best selling novel . |
| 13 | Unlike a scoria cone though , a pumice cone is usually rather low and poorly defined , and sometimes does not even have a recognizable crater . |
| 14 | The intricate and narrow ( 5 ; 0.2pc ) filaments of Fig. 6 b are strikingly linear and mostly run parallel to one another . |
| 15 | Apparently warming hugs can be most ungiving and greedily grasping for the self . |
| 16 | The dictionary , published in 1835 , though not the most copious , is the most serviceable , the most reliable and soundly based , ever produced . |
| 17 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 18 | Surely they will provide the final lesson that rock 'n' roll needs more thinking , more philosophising in a real sense before we can ever allow another four-square Smiths to appear , vastly entertaining but also clutching their own downfall . |
| 19 | This is the most interesting and well preserved specimen of sixth century Byzantine church building in the west . |
| 20 | As an architect he is one of the most interesting and least known of the Victorian Gothic Revivalists . ’ |
| 21 | Of these , by far the most popular and universally used is the Dewey Decimal Classification . |
| 22 | The most popular and much sought after public houses are those with a wide range of services , such as accommodation and food , in addition to beers and spirits . |
| 23 | The bush — or , as it used to be called , dwarf ( misleading these days in view of the growing popularity of the miniature and patio types ) — is the form that is most popular and commonly planted in gardens everywhere . |
| 24 | One of the most charming and intricately made toys is the toy theatre . |
| 25 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 26 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 27 | In public discussion , however , the idea that genes account for most variation among IQs seems not only controversial but also associated with a few men of allegedly questionable character . |
| 28 | ‘ The teacher was not highly qualified but very much alive and specially trained in English medium teaching at Kagumo Training College nearby ; the children had been learning English for six months . |
| 29 | That said , the car felt extremely solid and well screwed together , exterior panel gaps were uniformly narrow and even and all the doors shut with a satisfying ‘ thunk ’ . |
| 30 | Joe Haines , from his vantage point as Harold Wilson 's press secretary , reckoned that so strong and so determined was their resolve to make the country a member that no government , regardless of party , could have resisted it indefinitely . |