Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arguably the modern play with a limited cast is more effective in drawing in professional agents and casting directors since there are fewer ‘ bit ’ parts for students to get lost in . |
| 2 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 3 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 4 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 5 | Chapter 3 outlined the development of the impersonal capital as arguably the dominant mode of possession of the means of production in the contemporary British social formation . |
| 6 | It is an impossibly restricted view , therefore , to imagine a universal approach to landform study being based only upon consideration of historical development … the physical and the resulting psychological , inability of geographers to handle successfully the simultaneous operation of a number of causes contributing to a given effect has been one of the greatest impediments to the advancement of their discipline . |
| 7 | By the early 1920s it was evident that the monarchical system in its existing form was ill-equipped to negotiate successfully the difficult transition from ‘ oligarchic ’ liberalism to genuine democracy . |
| 8 | In the nineteenth century , the upper class comprised the traditional landed aristocracy , but it was an aristocracy that had absorbed largely if not wholly the new men of wealth who had made their money out of trade and industry . |
| 9 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 10 | ‘ The petitioners remark that ‘ the Royal Veterinary College of London is the private property of the subscribers thereto who may continue or close the same at their discretion ; that it is only from their desire to advance the veterinary art that they have allowed their institution to be employed as a College of instruction ; and that thereby the veterinary profession in this country owes even its existence to their establishment ’ . |
| 11 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 12 | Boastful , overbearing and bumptious , he emerges by his own account as the eternal mocker of authority , rarely the effective wielder of it . |
| 13 | Government itself was rarely the active initiator in the move to criminalize immorality . |
| 14 | A state of cleanliness is rarely the main objective of a manager in the food industries , as there is no direct profit contribution or production benefit , so the emphasis on management differs from that of mainstream operations . |
| 15 | But the new cohorts felt much less keenly the social conditions from which the class alignment arose in the first place . |
| 16 | Yet even as I remember Victoria , I feel keenly the unsettled state of my mind . |
| 17 | All ‘ well-meaning ’ citizens were said to have recognized ‘ wholly , joyfully , and thankfully the superhuman greatness of the Führer and his work ’ , and , confronted with this ‘ greatness ’ , ‘ all pettiness and grumbling is silenced ’ . |
| 18 | But nevertheless if it were handled properly the high-yielding seeds of African maize , upland rice and cassava which are on the way could make a real difference . |
| 19 | In order to work properly the dominant forces in each of the three spheres have to monopolize the key resources for which there is great competition . |
| 20 | Economically the traditional sector of agriculture was a negative force : it was immune to the fluctuations of the great markets or , if not , it resisted their impact as best it could . |
| 21 | Such an argument would appear , however , to overestimate vastly the potential contribution of the ‘ Eastern hemisphere ’ in the postwar process of adjustment while ignoring the strength of European economic recovery which depended so much on intraregional trade in manufactured goods . |
| 22 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 23 | Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric . |
| 24 | Additionally the full range from Marvic Textiles is now available from Sloane Avenue providing an exceptionally comprehensive selection of furnishing fabric . |
| 25 | Additionally the growing importance of the media , especially radio and television , highlighted the relatively poor performance of British sportsmen and women at an international level . |
| 26 | It would seem , then , that de la Broquière 's statement not only provides good evidence of the existence of the office of Mufti in 836/1433 but also suggests that the Mufti was by then recognizably the chief representative of the spiritual authority of the Seriat , the chief representative of the religious aspect of the state . |
| 27 | It is as if the baby can now calculate geometrically the precise location of the target from the angle of the adult 's head and arm relative to self and the environment . |
| 28 | IT IS presumably the mustachioed face of the author that hovers elusively behind the undulations of the Zollner figure on the front of Nicholas Wade 's book . |
| 29 | The courtyard was surrounded by what were presumably the inner walls of the palace . |
| 30 | Presumably the great advantage of word-processing , if , if you have the sort of decent printer that you mentioned , is that you could send what appear to be rather personal letters to a whole lot of people rather rapidly erm putting in , for example , at a very elementary level , their individual name , but also coupling together relevant paragraphs erm which would be appropriate to them . |