Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I took over , it was evident that the need for new roads vastly outstripped the likely supply . |
| 2 | Reception under conditions of distraction is taken to its extreme in television , which is half watched in the course of pursuing other activities and in which very often , especially among children , entire programmes are not viewed at all ; instead , fingers rarely leave the remote control device as there is a constant change of channels ( Ellis 1982 , p. 137 ) . |
| 3 | The peace-keepers successfully tame the roaring lion . |
| 4 | The peace-keepers successfully tame the roaring lion . |
| 5 | Such questions are worth distinguishing , however , because there are moral philosophers today who think that Kant effectively answered the third correctly , but that he offers no sufficient answer to the second . |
| 6 | However 1980 , it seemed , just might represent a genuine national shift towards conservatism thereby providing the underpinning for a new alignment of electoral forces to replace the Democratic coalition founded by Franklin Roosevelt . |
| 7 | By their greater numbers in this sector — seven divisions to half that number of German — the Russians slowly drove the German centre back . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , Doane 's conclusion was no less pessimistic than Mulvey 's as to the radical potential of this gaze , since she argued that the film narrative in these cases effectively forced the female spectator into a masochistic identification with the female protagonist . |
| 9 | That finding effectively determines the agreed figures on which damages relating to the provision of suitable accommodation in turn , it is agreed that if two carers are to live in the household , that suitable new accommodation for the plaintiff can be acquired for two hundred and seventeen thousand , five hundred pounds , the house in which he at present lives will fe fetch eighty two thousand , five hundred pounds , a difference of a hundred and thirty five thousand pounds . |
| 10 | But Kelly only completed the seventh three-timer of his career after a battle with Gavin Peacock , Newcastle 's regular penalty-taker . |
| 11 | Morley 's hypothesis obviously worried the anti-drug establishment . |
| 12 | In fact as discount factors tend to unity so does the temporary reputation become permanent . |
| 13 | What these sewers carried was not sanitary ordure — that continued to be collected or even — illegally — dumped in cesspits : for the cost of separating out the effluent so frightened the Municipal Council of the city that even by 1870 nothing much had been done . |
| 14 | ‘ Many farmers think it saves money only to treat the best cows in the herd — those which have had clinical mastitis or those with a known high cell-count . |
| 15 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 16 | It was made tiny by the three men standing around the bed , but Patrick only recognized the bearded Dan Brady . |
| 17 | Encouraged , David pushed aside the flimsy bra , and his sensitive fingers gently kneaded the soft flesh that swelled under his touch . |
| 18 | The buyer only becomes the legal owner of registered land when the transfer is received by the Land Registry ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 19 | More than once Lina arranged the time and place of an interview , booked the plane , agreed the meals , models , set stylists and hairdressers only to find the whole thing suddenly cancelled . |
| 20 | Davidson rightly enjoins the radical interpreter to be nasty in thinking up as many competing interpretations of observed behaviour as possible . |
| 21 | The Germans naturally played the major role in shaping the CIVC and its undoubted success , both immediate and since , must to some extent be credited to the Germans ' reputation for organisation , efficiency and detail . |
| 22 | But when the First Test came the tour selectors , with Stewart naturally taking the dominant role , decided that Mains was suspect because he did not have the speed to cover the hard South African grounds when the ball was loose . |
| 23 | None the less , as has been argued , the Hundred Years War would never be settled by a major engagement in which the cavalry alone played the decisive role . |
| 24 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 25 | The organization chart below illustrates the principal divisions of labour within the function and provides an example of the structural relationships between the different departments or sub-units . |
| 26 | The chart below shows the average percentage increase in the FT-SE 100 Index over 5 years periods ( commencing 1 January ) from 1 January 1979 to 1 January 1992 in comparison to a higher rate Building Society investment and the rate of inflation over the same periods . |
| 27 | His fingers idly stroked the oiled metal of his exposed weapon . |
| 28 | Quite apart from the threat of legal proceedings from sect appointed lawyers , he also had Deputy Commissioner Elrick eagerly awaiting the slightest slip on his part , to pounce and nail his ass to the wall with a disciplinary hearing . |
| 29 | The daily dose of 20 mg was chosen on the basis of volunteer studies , where doses of 10 mg and 20 mg four times daily suppressed the hypothalamicpituitary axis , whereas 5 mg four times a day did not ( Glaxo Group Research Ltd , unpublished data ) . |
| 30 | Fry deliberately wrote the next part of his essay in a railway refreshment room ( ‘ One must remember that public places of this kind merely reflect the average citizen 's soul , as expressed in his home ’ ) . |