Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 2 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 3 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 4 | In Chapter 5 we met the more sophisticated idea of the evolutionarily stable set of genes . |
| 5 | As such a concentration upon ‘ women as carers ’ neglects the very important contribution of male carers ( Arber and Gilbert 1989 ) . |
| 6 | Similarly , " this personage " , a mock dignified label for Pemberton himself perhaps fits the rather forbidding image he presents to the child , as well as reflecting sadly on Pemberton 's own lack of dignity in the situation in which he finds himself . |
| 7 | In 1939 , after several years of study , the Conservative government attempted to reorganize the rather inefficient operation of the two airlines and to encourage more competition . |
| 8 | The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject . |
| 9 | Such preaching , far from deterring the people , attracted them in such large numbers that the parish church of St.Mary and All Saints , which held about 1,000 , was filled beyond its capacity so that five galleries had to be erected to accommodate the greatly enlarged congregation . |
| 10 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 11 | The emphasis on helping the visually handicapped pupil to develop skills to cope with his school environment , rather than adapting the environment significantly to accommodate the visually handicapped child , may , however , be usefully tempered by an understanding of the way in which the developmental and experiential levels of the child can be affected by his school life . |
| 12 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 13 | Shooters will be less pleased , since the idea of a ‘ weapon passport ’ allowing the reasonably easy transportation of legal weapons will not be accepted in Great Britain . |
| 14 | Both the sheep and the cows , after drying off in early June , went to the high mountain meadows during the summer , allowing the more accessible grass around the farm to be conserved either as hay or silage . |
| 15 | You cook the moules as for marinière : moules marinières is prepared by scrubbing the mussels , rejecting any that do not close when knocked against the sink , whilst allowing the finely chopped onion and garlic to thoroughly soften in the wine in a large pan for which you have a close-fitting lid . |
| 16 | It was on the tip of Breeze 's tongue to ask what was the matter , but she knew that Susan would condemn that as being too impulsive ; so she endured the very uncomfortable atmosphere for the rest of the drive . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) A change in the processes of teaching and learning is justified because it is believed to enable the more effective transmission and reception of the content of the curriculum ; i.e. we change process as instrumental in acquiring knowledge of content . |
| 18 | Since the two groups are as alike in all respects except that one of them , the experimental group , has received the supposedly causal treatment , the new teaching style , then any differences in academic attainment between the two groups must be due either to chance or to the causal factor . |
| 19 | Nearly one quarter ( 8/33 ) of those who had received the more comprehensive list of complications thought that they had been given ‘ too much ’ information , compared with just 6% ( 2/36 ) of those who had been given a simple explanation ( p=0.04 , Fisher 's exact test ) : anxiety scores did not differ significantly between patients who thought the amount of information given was too much and those who thought it was ‘ about right ’ ( data not shown ) . |
| 20 | Resist the temptation to climb onto the ledge , for this is one of those red herrings which prove difficult to retreat from , and make haste with the short traverse , after which a few moves on rounded layaways gain the surprisingly airy belay . |
| 21 | These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action . |
| 22 | As carpet imports are minimal in our market segment , we are optimistic and are maintaining the substantially increased promotion investment which we consider vital for the Group 's future . |
| 23 | Government environmental and medical authorities in Northern Ireland , Britain , Germany , Holland , Belgium and the US have also been consulted and their advice has been incorporated in building the most modern asbestos using plant in the world . |
| 24 | In my view the importance of the pilot stage is that it confronts the perhaps over-sophisticated schedule with down-to-earth respondents . |
| 25 | One shop in the Isle of Man , which never did any stocktaking , unearthed the most wonderful collection of 1920s toys . |
| 26 | And that involves the enormously difficult task of allocating resources which are limited among competing claims . |
| 27 | However , the communist revolution which involves the most radical change in property rights also involves ‘ the most radical rupture with traditional ideas ’ . |
| 28 | Michael Palin played goody goody headmaster Jim , Robert Lindsay the deeply insecure bad guy allegedly not based on militant councillor Del Hatton — both lent the vastly ambitious saga the power and sympathy crucial to flesh out Bleasdale 's artful comic polemics . |
| 29 | ‘ We have , I believe , passed the most difficult point , ’ Mr Waigel said . |
| 30 | All over Paris people queued to buy a small bagful to heat their homes , and in the Rue de la Paix the most fashionable jeweller in Paris placed a lump of coal , surrounded by diamonds , in his window . |