Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of staff — 62 per cent — read all or most of Newsline while 38 per cent read some or just a little of the publication . |
| 2 | Tillich concludes from this that even the most profound expression of compassion within Buddhism can not be compared with agape because it lacks the power to accept the unacceptable and the desire to change man and his society . |
| 3 | Moving it from the training camp ground to the hospital ward was the most commercial and seemingly the most obvious — course to be taken . |
| 4 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |
| 5 | The enemy is wily and therefore the more unlikely a person looks , the more likely he is to be the secret enemy . |
| 6 | But , back in England , The Smiths felt unsettled and just a little paranoid . |
| 7 | If he fails to do this , we can only ask him to take another and perhaps a more careful look at our experiment , and think again . |
| 8 | Given the history of socialist economies , it is doubtful whether even a far more radical and complete transformation of the relations of production would , of itself , have removed this basis for class differentiation , and for this reason Morris remains a problematic model for contemporary socialism . |
| 9 | The vast majority of social research employs ordinal data or , more rarely , the interval scale : even in such cases it is doubtful whether even the most developed of such scales actually satisfy the requirements . |
| 10 | It is possible that only a very marked and rapid reduction in interest rates , which might cause a substantial shift in confidence , would be effective . |
| 11 | In fact , it does n't matter how remote , how poor is the resemblance of an insect to a stick , there must be some level of twilight , or some degree of distance away from the eye , or some degree of distraction of the predator 's attention , such that even a very good eye will be fooled by the remote resemblance . |
| 12 | On the other hand , if the scores of the standardisation sample were such that only a very small proportion — say , 5 per cent — scored 40 or less , then a child with this score may be identified as being in need of further , more detailed assessment . |
| 13 | It is ironic that often the most severe weather conditions can produce some of the most intricate and fragile sights . |
| 14 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 15 | A sprout can take just so much and then no more . |
| 16 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 17 | " She 's forgetful and sometimes a little difficult , but she still does the garden and she did all the cooking right up to your aunt 's death . " |
| 18 | A Labour administration developed a planning system which made government priorities clearer and thereby a more important consideration in the minds of local decision-makers . |
| 19 | And this is a novel which is I suppose an early but certainly a very embryonic attempt to write À la Recherche . |
| 20 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 21 | But when I needed a breath of air , or wished to explore Reine , and was out of the attic for an hour or so , leaving him alone there , he became depressed and even a little disagreeable . |
| 22 | A variety of building types are represented at Cowdery 's Down , but building C12 , the largest and possibly the most elaborate , may serve to demonstrate the skills required . |
| 23 | During the last week of August the Soviet Union for the first time allowed parties of Japanese to visit family graves on the island of Etorofu , the largest and militarily the most sensitive of the Northern Territories ( the Soviet Union was believed to have a division of ground troops and a squadron of MiG-23 fighter aircraft based there ) . |
| 24 | Mr. Broderick said ‘ We can all see and condemn the naked anti-unionism of Companies like Pat the Baker , but this form of anti-unionism is far more subtle and all the more dangerous . ’ |
| 25 | I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable . |
| 26 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 27 | The decision to use the bomb remains the most controversial and probably the most important of the Second World War . |
| 28 | Frances has a horrible dog , Hotchkiss , the most odious and also the most convincing dog in literature . |
| 29 | I suppose the general aim is to get a huge Hollywood star , a singer , and perhaps a home-grown character , but it rarely works out like that and sometimes the most unlikely combination can really work . |
| 30 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |