Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the administration of production ( ie. the ‘ brain-work ’ ) and the actual supervision of production work are the most widely separated in large-batch and mass production companies ; |
| 2 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 3 | The fifth , sixth and seventh words are the most widely favoured for deletion . |
| 4 | Radio Renacena is the most widely listened to station in Portugal . |
| 5 | They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) . |
| 6 | Pitot tubes have been most widely used in air , where they can measure speeds from about 1 m s -1 upwards . |
| 7 | Where an estimate of probability has to rely on human judgement and experience , this is called subjective probability , and is the most widely used in business situations . |
| 8 | But the Board now asks the general assembly to look again at this part of our remit and to form a judgment about where this work should be most effectively done in future . |
| 9 | Small groups of objects can sometimes be most effectively used in problem solving activities . |
| 10 | The extent of the revolution is most strikingly illustrated by comparison of Giovanni Gabrieli 's two settings of ‘ O Jesu mi dulcissime ’ : in his First Book of Sacrae Symphoniae ( 1597 ) and in his Second Book ( posthumously published in 1615 ) . |
| 11 | The great treeless plains from Salamanca to Valladolid were most economically employed with wheat and grazed fallows , while other poorer provinces — Avila for instance — could grow little else , even if it meant wretched crops and three-year fallows . |
| 12 | The causes of weakness in adhesion are rather less understood at present than they are in cohesion but no doubt they are generally similar in character . |
| 13 | Some countships were more equal than others : a " greater " count was presumably so called in part because his civitas was richer and more important , for instance , as a central place in one of the regna ( like Angers in Neustria , or Autun in Burgundy ) . |
| 14 | I produced sketches and a clay model for ideas , but these were eventually only used for reference when working on the sculpture . |
| 15 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 16 | Its marbled , fine-grained beef is of very good quality and taste and it is well worth the rather long wait for maturity in spite of the lack of size . |
| 17 | This is true , to a lesser extent , of all forms of imaginative writing , but poetry is the most obviously governed by convention and genre , and in the eyes of both the Russian Formalists and of non-literary readers the most likely to display linguistic deformation . |
| 18 | There have been differences of opinion as to how such matters should be most advantageously introduced to school children , and some have argued that the " library period " where children systematically practise " library skills " , in isolation from any other work they may also be doing , is a mistake . |
| 19 | Well I mean all , all I know in that at the moment is that I , I 'd I would be most naturally drawn to youth , I would have thought . |
| 20 | Using a bar code reader and a suitable computer system greatly speeds things up of course , and the books of codes are presumably only needed for reference and checking purposes . |
| 21 | If you 're not already using some form of contraceptive , you 'd better see to it , although normally I 'd agree that it 's a joint responsibility , since it seems that I 'm so atrociously lacking in control where you 're concerned … damn you , Maria . ’ |
| 22 | The cleavage line is only rarely retained in adult insects but some species have a similarly situated sulcus of different morphological and functional significance . |
| 23 | What has pleased me is the way in which the living material of Rural Studies is so avidly used in Art nowadays , not just in primary schools , but in secondary schools , too . |
| 24 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 25 | Commitment accounting is much less widely adopted in practice than either cash accounting or accruals accounting . |
| 26 | Similarly , although the works clubs which are in charge of workplace negotiations in Sweden are sub-organisations of the branches of the national unions and less loosely linked to union organisation than the equivalent shop steward system in Britain ( at least before the expansion of single-employer bargaining ) , nevertheless they act independently of the branch and national union headquarters . |
| 27 | ’ Jamie wrote his name in the beer on the table-top with the knuckle of a finger long since lost in battle . |
| 28 | His wife and daughters had long since gone to bed . |
| 29 | The Airds had long since gone to bed . |
| 30 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |