Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this country of robots , minuscule calculators and pocket TV , they use little wooden abacuses to add up your bill . |
| 2 | LIKE the fox and the hedgehog , two of the world 's great museums are resorting to strikingly different tactics to shake off unwelcome predators . |
| 3 | The manual is not only one of the most interesting documents to come out of the Sultanate , it is also one of the most precious keys we have to the concerns that meant most to the war-obsessed amirs of Tughluk Delhi . |
| 4 | One of the most interesting findings to come out of recent research is that the visual system consists of a set of circuits arranged in parallel , rather than an hierarchically organized cascade . |
| 5 | ‘ The clearest , most unequivocal finding to come out of our social analysis is the singularity of the subjects in it . ’ |
| 6 | They send in advance troops to scout out the dangers then bathe them in the glare from TV arc lamps . |
| 7 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 8 | You might not think this is enough raw material to spin out over 345 hardback quarto pages , but why not ? |
| 9 | When the cap burns it creates a sufficiently high temperature to set off the dynamite . |
| 10 | This is a highly dangerous area to sail in because the seas contain many monstrous creatures which were stirred up by the collapse of northern Ulthuan centuries ago — Kraken , huge shark-like megalodons , Behemoths and even the dread Black Leviathan are all commonly seen in the waters north of Ulthuan . |
| 11 | Now it will not always be the case that it is optimal for the less risk-averse party to take on all the risk . |
| 12 | KC 's conversational speech may not be entirely normal — but it is remarkable in comparison to his extremely impaired ability to repeat back single words . |
| 13 | At least 88 per cent of sewage from coastal towns is discharged into the sea raw or after only basic screening to sift out solids . |
| 14 | Had ICI decided to hive off its less promising activities to struggle on as best they could , leaving the main field to more glamorous products ? |
| 15 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 16 | We found it altogether an extremely fascinating place to wander around , but not much revenue work for us apart from " showing the flag " . |
| 17 | Mildred , however , had been given a rather dim-witted tabby because there had n't been quite enough black ones to go round . |
| 18 | ‘ The fact that there are too many dogs and not enough caring homes to go around is a national scandal . |
| 19 | The problem is that unless you have absolutely plain walls , there will be a number of obstacles to tile round , and you have to decide how to get the best fit round them with your inflexible tile squares , without ending up cutting impossibly thin slivers to fill in all the gaps . |
| 20 | Yet he acknowledged that ‘ any thorough examination … would be an extremely difficult thing to carry out on account of the prejudice of the men ’ . |
| 21 | With Sir Thomas Cooke , his successor as governor , Herne appears to have been party to some extremely shady deals to break up the opposition group in 1693–4 , and to have engaged in bribery to help secure a new charter for the company in 1694 ; all this brought a parliamentary storm on his head in the spring of 1696 . |
| 22 | There was only just room to scrape through between the roots of the tree and the edge . |
| 23 | Hugo was smoking a thin cigarette through a long cloisonné holder which he now began to wave about , causing highly aromatic ash to fall on to the sleeve of his green velvet jacket . |
| 24 | Project English gives the experienced and confident teacher maximum scope while providing a clear and supportive framework for the less experienced teacher to try out new techniques . |
| 25 | The cash will be spent on ‘ de-bottlenecking ’ the production line — bringing in new equipment to speed up manufacture . |
| 26 | So far David 's letters from a couple of children who understand his fascination but what he really wants is enough other fans to set up a collectors club for cone crazies . |
| 27 | But Scotland Today can reveal that the council IS considering bringing in external auditors to find out what went wrong . |
| 28 | erm I think the real danger however is that over the next three four five years , erm people all over the world will get into the habit of regarding Britain as an impossibly expensive country to study in , because no other country in the world attempts to charge the full cost of it 's university education in tuition fees , and erm that gradually people will turn elsewhere . |
| 29 | This so-called ‘ objective ’ reliving , which brings forth fragmentary recall based on the hypnotist 's detailed questions , puts the subject under especially intense pressure to come up with the goods . |
| 30 | For Horton staff , particularly the medical staff , the loss of ‘ acute ’ ( short stay ) admissions would make the hospital a far less attractive place to work in . |