Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moor Scope battled on gamely to retake the lead from Impy Condor on the flat in the Confined and Farmer Tom was always going like a winner in the Restricted race , in which Alner and even-money favourite Baron Bob crashed at the second fence . |
| 2 | I am both pleased and excited about my appointment as National Development Officer , but realise that there is a considerable challenge to be met , protecting existing classes , developing new ones , maintaining good working relations with all administrative and governing bodies and most importantly supporting the Society 's most valuable asset — its Teachers . |
| 3 | To be a professional is to exercise ( and most importantly to have the ability to exercise ) one 's professional skills and to make professional decisions , without deference to moral , religious or political beliefs and points of view . |
| 4 | Gay stayed with her , while Breeze ran into the inn and , with lively recollections of her last visit , asked rather nervously to see the proprietor . |
| 5 | Sometimes it seemed that those who had profited most successfully form the bonanza that he Shah had unleashed were the first to go -with members of the Pahlavi dynasty leading the rush tot he exit . |
| 6 | It is Christian Lacroix who seems most acutely to express the spirit of the age . |
| 7 | Smith favours the view that decisive policing will most effectively quell the rioting , but concedes that premature intervention may well generate uncontrollable panic . |
| 8 | They are the most powerful because they can most effectively expose the discipline for what it is . |
| 9 | The fossils that have most effectively captured the public 's attention as symbols of the outlandish character of prehistoric life are the dinosaurs . |
| 10 | The appropriate response , however , is not to alter the law so as to allow euthanasia , and thereby arguably undermine the respect for life enshrined both in the law and medical training . |
| 11 | It is this balance of power with governors which perhaps most intensely tests the management capacity of a head in relation to other teachers , but at the same time the power of teachers themselves to convert policies which are handed down from above into classroom practice by means of adaptation , domestication or subversion should not be overlooked ( Shipman 1990:156 — 7 ) . |
| 12 | It was he who had run ahead in pursuit of the horses , and it was he whose eyes now most keenly searched the forest edge . |
| 13 | Moreover , he had recently been allowed to make some outspoken criticisms of aspects of official policy , thereby apparently demonstrating the existence of a new and more liberal climate . |
| 14 | Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Rather than plough on regardless damaging the scheme and the partnerships we have created , we have decided to suspend the project . ’ |
| 16 | The intent is rather merely to summarize the account of his life as given by Taskopruzade and Mecdi in order to convey the general course of his career . |
| 17 | In Britain this shift most obviously took the form of the sale of ( shares in ) state-owned industries and the sale of council houses ; but other manifestations of the shift included provision for the ‘ contracting out ’ by local authorities of various functions to private contractors and moves towards the ‘ privatization ’ of certain types of prison facilities . |
| 18 | As the species which is most obviously shaping the future of planet Earth , humans need to examine the consequences of many current development strategies and urgently find solutions . |
| 19 | It is certainly arguable ( and many progressive employers would agree ) that the wisest use of public money from a strictly economic point of view would be on schools , houses , and medical services , together with relevant training and measures to reduce discrimination ; in short , that the agencies which most obviously have the capacity to produce strategic planning of a business-friendly kind are precisely those which this pro-business administration wishes to bypass — central government departments , and local government , properly funded . |
| 20 | Herein perhaps lies the reason why feet have been so downgraded in our religious life . |
| 21 | In the accounts of ‘ anthropology at home ’ currently being produced , the potential to include the personal is unlike that which exists here , for only rarely does the research material contain an account in which the analyst is the subject as well as the researcher . |
| 22 | Only rarely does the leer of insincerity glow through the mask . |
| 23 | Patients presenting with metastasis of unknown origin have a mean life expectancy of only four months so most diagnostic methods occupy a large proportion of the patient 's remaining life and identification of the primary site only rarely influences the choice of treatment . |
| 24 | Only rarely did the artist actually go to where he might see exotic species in the wild — and even if he had gone there always , he would probably have found them very hard to see . |
| 25 | The physiotherapist usually has several pillows available to support the patient , plus a wedge cushion , which is a foam support measuring about 2 feet ( 60 cm ) long , 2½ feet ( 76 cm ) wide , 6 inches ( 15 cm ) deep at the top , tapering down lengthwise to form the wedge shape . |
| 26 | Four years later , Greenpeace returned with another ship and succeeded in properly blocking the pipeline using special rubber balls . |
| 27 | In the United Kingdom the legislature has effectively long since surrendered the power of the purse to the executive , but that is far from being the case in the United States . |
| 28 | Though the sales have long since gone the mill now has a castellated top and refulgent water vane in the shape of a beer bottle . |
| 29 | But the heat and the darkness and the twisted magic had long since drained the heart from the land ; the dark sorcery had sucked out the goodness and turned it into a stunted , abandoned place . |
| 30 | As for the religious communities themselves , they had long since sought the protection of local potentes to speak for them as advocates in legal disputes or to put in a word with the king . |