Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His round , brown eyes regarded me obliquely , a little suspiciously above the high cheekbones . |
| 2 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 3 | Those who commit these crimes must be pursued most vigorously under the criminal law ; if they are allowed to get away with it others will take encouragement to follow their example . |
| 4 | Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities . |
| 5 | There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 6 | The promotion of language across the curriculum in the wake of the Bullock Report ( 1975 ) has been followed by proposals for pastoral care across the curriculum ( Marland , 1980 ) , and most importantly in the present context , for a coordinated whole-school approach to study skills ( Irving and Snape , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | At first the gospel of family limitation appears to have been spread most effectively among the middle classes before it percolated through to the working classes . |
| 8 | At the upper end of the social and economic scale the mood of protest has been captured most effectively by the small but respected Republican Party . |
| 9 | Bhabha writes of how Fanon ‘ speaks most effectively from the uncertain interstices of historical change : from the area of ambivalence between race and sexuality , out of an unresolved contradiction between culture and class ; from deep within the struggle of psychic representation and social reality ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , White Masks , p. ix ) . |
| 10 | Manville was dead long before the heavy iron chains fastened around his ankles dragged his body to the bottom of the Potomac River . |
| 11 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 12 | As they ran on together across the flat open plateau , Yanto explained breathlessly what he had done . |
| 13 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 14 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 15 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 16 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 17 | Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) . |
| 18 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 19 | It was inevitable that the war in Asia would affect politics in Western Europe , most obviously in the military sphere . |
| 20 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 21 | There is hardly any difference between the sexes , except that the casque or bonnet at the back of the head and tubercles at the nostrils are a little larger , and the beautiful rosy salmon colour a little deeper in the male bird … ’ |
| 22 | It is " recursive " because the same rule ( in this case a branching rule ) is applied locally all over the growing tree . |
| 23 | Kitty took about a dozen tender puffs and then pressed the pad of her index finger most gently on the glowing weed . |
| 24 | ‘ This is what you call the laconicum ? ’ she asked , drawing back rather dubiously from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth . |
| 25 | I fell down thankfully in the squidgy chair and drank some tea while he hovered round waiting to pounce again . |
| 26 | And they 'd go down right over the main road , right over the fields , over the railway , through the fields along the beach there . |
| 27 | Only rarely in the late 1940s did he achieve in paint the finesse that now characterised his figure drawings . |
| 28 | Scotland 's tackling at the weekend was akin to a holding operation ; not surprising really as only rarely in the domestic sevens circuit do you see the shuddering finality which the Samoans , Fijians and Canadians bring to their defensive chopping . |
| 29 | Despair overtakes me as soon as I see the dreaded trolleys jammed together ; I always manage to pick one with a crab-like action ; my heart sinks and culinary amnesia sets in somewhere between the tinned fruit and dried pasta . |
| 30 | The expanse of wooden floor , cool and clean and shining … the double bed with its hand-appliquéd quilt in a complex pattern of pastels and white … the stand of leafy potted plants , the antique free-standing mirror , whose glass oval would take in the whole length of a woman in evening dress … the modern wardrobe , built-in , that blended so skilfully into the architectural mood of the house while providing all the space for clothing that she could possibly need … two original paintings on the walls , each an impressionistic landscape in subtle , imaginative colour … |