Example sentences of "[adv] of [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be a new experience for Mr Major , the last and hardest of his political initiation rites . |
| 2 | In 89 , a poem of infidelity ( ‘ Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault ’ ) , the Poet abases himself , vowing to perform all kinds of penance in order to win the Friend back , including never mentioning his name again in case he ‘ haply of our old acquaintance tell ’ : it is over , in the past . |
| 3 | Andy 's wife Caroline is in the Alps and we talk enviously of her good fortune . |
| 4 | Parents speak approvingly of their timid children , and adults are constantly at great pains to convince others of their own fearfulness . |
| 5 | Speaking approvingly of his recent meetings with various European leaders , Mr Gorbachev singled out President Mitterrand , whom he met in Kiev last week , for special praise , particularly because of his ‘ respect for present realities and the inviolability of established borders . ’ |
| 6 | This followed increasing criticism by Rutskoi of the Russian government , especially of its economic policy . |
| 7 | During William Pitt 's second administration , he was an outspoken critic , especially of its Indian policy . |
| 8 | Again , in putting fairly before your reader all that your detective sees in the hunting down of your known murderer , everything that we have said about concealing yet revealing clues still applies . |
| 9 | These facts will be irrelevant if no unit larger than the grapheme is used to read aloud , because a standard rule ea — ‘ ee ’ will be applied to ea regardless of what other graphemes exist in the non-word . |
| 10 | Regardless of what other people contribute , there is no incentive for you to contribute : you are a free-rider . |
| 11 | My own personal opinion , regardless of what other people think about sectionalization , is that our sectional structure is something which was wi er built up , at times with difficulty and prices have been high and pay has been high . |
| 12 | Patients with one , two , and three or more of the risk factors had progressively lower two , four , and eight week healing rates regardless of which specific factors were present ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 13 | Regardless of which statistical model was applied , however , the main conclusion was the same — namely , almost a 50% reduction in sperm concentration from 1940 to 1990 . |
| 14 | It must be borne in mind that the majority of these data have been derived from subjects younger than 65 years ( Koch-Weser , 1978 ) so that the effect of hypotensive drugs in the older age-groups regardless of their blood-pressure status was largely unknown until the recent publication of the European Working Party Trial which did show significant benefits in the elderly ( Amery et al , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Reducing waiting lists is at the top of all politicians ' political agendas , regardless of their political persuasion . |
| 16 | Reverse-transcriptase ( RT ) -based PCR of total lymphocyte RNA has been shown to amplify specific coding sequences regardless of their primary tissue of expression . |
| 17 | Some commentators are now claiming that the whole Green consumer wave was just a fashionable spasm , and that the vast majority of people have now reverted to their usual habits , regardless of their environmental impact . |
| 18 | This interchange of visual ideas permeates every facet of the weaver 's art , and is one of the prime reasons why all oriental rugs , regardless of their compositional differences , possess an underlying character that sets them apart from hand-made rugs produced in other areas of the world . |
| 19 | Now it is bestowed as a recognition of the great work people do on behalf of the church and society , regardless of their religious belief . |
| 20 | In a public survey , almost three out of four people thought that travel agents should give independent advice regardless of their financial links with any one operator , but only just over half , 54pc , thought this happened in practice . |
| 21 | In a public survey , almost three out of four people thought that travel agents should give independent advice regardless of their financial links with any one operator , but only just over half , 54pc , thought this happened in practice . |
| 22 | Again such taxes discriminate against the poor because everyone must pay the same regardless of their actual wealth . |
| 23 | Traditionally , all non-teaching staff had been grouped together regardless of their actual duties , but the concept of operational and support groups ( rather than teaching and non-teaching ) suggested that some of these staff who were directly involved with classroom activities ( eg workshop technicians ) could reasonably come under the control of the lecturing department heads , recognising their direct contribution to the delivery of courses and involvement in the operational side of the business . |
| 24 | It is sufficiently comprehensive to embrace all types of non-meanings regardless of their internal constitution or ontological status . |
| 25 | people learn at an early age ways of feeling and behaving that tend to become habitual regardless of their continued appropriateness . |
| 26 | Regardless of their sacerdotal status they , too , had to provide sufficient funds for their endowment but , as they were often as wealthy and powerful as the nobility , this was no hardship . |
| 27 | Discrimination against employing people started with those in their 40s , while over-50s were being pressed to take early retirement regardless of their individual ability or health , said the report , by Eurolink Age . |
| 28 | The second , related one is about the reasons for treating all people as if they were the same , regardless of their individual peculiarities of sex and gender . |
| 29 | It was also clear from the Saltley Gates confrontation that the police , regardless of their offensive tactics , were not capable of handling well-organized mass pickets . |
| 30 | This higher basic pension will be paid to every pensioner , regardless of their contributory record , to end the indignity of means testing . |