Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writers have argued that since the parties became so strong , it was inevitable that the influence formerly exercised on the floor of the House should decline but that much the same influence is still exercised by the meetings of the parliamentary parties . |
| 2 | ‘ Is n't that all the more reason to give him your support ? ’ |
| 3 | It was eight o'clock the following morning when Ben came back from the town . |
| 4 | There was a long night ahead of him , and he would not be relieved until eight o'clock the following morning when Ben Thompson arrived . |
| 5 | Could Erlich manage eight o'clock the next morning ? |
| 6 | They 'd both had little enough the previous night . |
| 7 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 8 | Eleven o'clock the next morning saw her immaculately dressed in a pale grey and pale pink creation , a great froth of fine lace at her throat and at her wrists . |
| 9 | They arranged to meet at eleven o'clock the next evening . |
| 10 | At eleven o'clock the big Volvo appeared at the far end of the hangar and drove slowly towards him , coming to a stop with its engine running forty feet away . |
| 11 | that only the final product of the primary school system is worthy of serious evaluation ; |
| 12 | The logical conclusion of all this is that there can no longer be a justification for the massive nuclear arsenals held by both sides , that only the absolute minimum of nuclear defence is required and that , because President Yeltsin , too , now has his finger on the nuclear button , we should now be doing business with him on this issue as on so many others . |
| 13 | Barro focused on the other major prediction of that model : that only the unpredictable movement in aggregate demand affects real variables such as output and unemployment — his contribution is discussed in section 6.2 . |
| 14 | After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place . |
| 15 | Europe contained , for most of the years between 1880 and 1945 , the most important forces in world politics , and was the focus of the arrangements which governed the world : these arrangements left unregulated only the western hemisphere ( and even there the British Royal Navy tacitly provided the under-writing of power needed by the Monroe Doctrine ) . |
| 16 | What made this all the more piquant was that so far from being free , the holiday was in fact bankrupting me . |
| 17 | In early times the fashion was to cut the two shields in half down the vertical axis ( the ‘ pale ’ line ) and join the dexter half of the husband 's to the sinister half of the wife 's , thus making in many cases a very strange ‘ design ’ indeed — such as the front half of a lion joined to the right-hand portion of a spread eagle . |
| 18 | But when he realized by late afternoon that none of the farmers at Casterbridge wanted a farm manager , or even a shepherd , he decided to try his luck at another fair the next day . |
| 19 | Is this perhaps the only conception of rationality which is viable in the late twentieth century ? |
| 20 | More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety . |
| 21 | In 174 BC the Roman architect Decimus Cossutius , son of Poplius , worked on the construction of the temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens , a project sponsored by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV . |
| 22 | I have left this monument to the last because it gives the fullest and most splendid expression to the first phase of fifth-century classical art ; and a comparison of it with the Parthenon makes clear both the essential unity of that style and the difference between its phases . |
| 23 | By 1347 Edward III had re-afforested also the royal forest of Bere Porchester in Hampshire . |
| 24 | We had all this out the last time . |
| 25 | We 'll sort this out the slow way . |
| 26 | Is this really the best Britain has to offer ? |
| 27 | Is this really the best way to encourage keen young players ? |
| 28 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
| 29 | Incidentally , I cycled past the Royal Palace at 2 a.m. the next morning and saw that all the flags had been taken down except ours — a gesture of regal solidarity , perhaps ? ! |
| 30 | At this even the boldest goat fled to the nearest hut for fear of reprisal , and from the cover of the walls watched the frustrated officer screaming at sentries , Poles , hut and bicycle in turn . |