Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , intracellular acidosis causes a greater increase in Na + / H + exchange activity than that expected from the more facourable in to out H + gradient . |
| 2 | And so we had , but were too polite to comment on the truly striking resemblance . |
| 3 | The government may have to offer a subsidy , or tax relief , to cable operators and subscribers willing to invest in the most adaptable system . |
| 4 | This plays upon the naturally alienistic attitudes of hearing parents who desperately want their deaf children to speak because of parental fear of physical expression and the implications of having to express themselves in a predominantly physical mode in order to achieve basic communication . |
| 5 | This amounted to the most profound change in the constitutional and financial relationship between central and local government since local government was introduced in the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | This led to the rather strange practice of including estimated values for capital depreciation by the nationalized industries as public expenditure , even when neither actual expenditure nor borrowing took place . |
| 7 | The factory rapidly expanded and this led to the almost total destruction of the remaining parts of the Bishop 's Palace . |
| 8 | This looks like the best return available on income bonds but investors should move fast as these offers tend to be fully subscribed very quickly . |
| 9 | This lies behind the very large number of habitual activities that make up the routines of ordinary day-to-day life . |
| 10 | My Lords , the short answer to this lies in the very extensive powers which Lord Chetwode [ the settlor ] had over the assets of the settlement and so over the share capital of Attleborough . |
| 11 | This ranged from the fairly trivial practice of holding too many banquets and offering ‘ gifts ’ to customers to the more serious misappropriation of state funds and reselling of state supplies on the free market for large profits . |
| 12 | routine or less important decisions are therefore passed ‘ down the line , to subordinates , and the superior is free to concentrate on the more important aspects of the work ( eg. planning ) ; and |
| 13 | The keyboard surround is also rather flexible , it had provision for 11 mounting plates but only six were fitted , and this added to the slightly tacky feel . |
| 14 | Why is it then , that this happens during the very next week to me , an experienced knitter ? |
| 15 | The interface is stabilized by some 400 2 of total buried surface area , much less than the 880 2 buried in the more intimate association of CD4(D1D2) . |
| 16 | This leads to the rather less splendid ascent of Princess Volupine ‘ To climb the waterstair ’ and to entertain |
| 17 | This leads to the now widely recognized potential for conflict between line and staff , especially when specialists are sub ordinated to generalists in the interest of unity of command . |
| 18 | This deals with the conceptually simple task of transferring data from one storage structure and medium to another , and providing control information . |
| 19 | This sounds like the most difficult question we have to decide . |
| 20 | Nearly 3,000 pieces of real estate were also said to be affected , most belonging to the FLN but some belonging to the now dissolved Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 21 | This based on the deeply entrenched conviction that if it looks naughty it must be very fattening , while if it looks innocent or healthy it can not be . |
| 22 | It was therefore considered appropriate to assign responses such as these to the ‘ other ’ rather than the ‘ no ’ category and this accounts for the rather unusual statistics . |
| 23 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 24 | This contrasted with the more expansionary programmes of France , West Germany and Italy ; programmes which have been modified but not extinguished by the economic recession and the concern with state expenditure . |
| 25 | It will be recalled that assignment is expressed in English by a form of to be ( for a full discussion of adjective grouping see Chapter 8 ) : ( 44 ) their host 's beer was cold and refreshing ( 45 ) one pair of trousers was deep purple ( 46 ) the story is long sad ( 47 ) the story is long is sad This contrasts with the sometimes lengthy sequences of adjectives , whether grouped or not , which can occur in prenominal attributive position without causing the slightest frisson of grammatical disapproval : ( 48 ) the long sad story begins in Ottawa ( 49 ) Aunt Lou bought Oliver a charming little pink woollen romper-suit |
| 26 | First , there is the lunch-break story ( though it is not entirely clear that this relates to the very last meeting : it might relate to 5 November ) . |
| 27 | The statute of Gloucester in 1278 with its fifteen chapters mainly concerned with land law ; of Acton Burnell in 1283 resolving some aspects of credit ; of Wales in 1284 extending to the newly conquered territory the advantages of English common law ; the statute of Merchants in 1285 drastically revising the statute of Acton Burnell ; the statute of Winchester in 1285 which was concerned to protect society from robbery and violence ; the statutes of Quo Warranto and Quia Emptores in 1290 which respectively clarified a resented enquiry and terminated subinfeudation : all these constitute a staggering corpus of law-making in a matter of fifteen years . |
| 28 | What this means in the most simple terms is that the order of onset of the stages in the individual is determined by what occasions them as gratifications — the oral stage by suckling , the anal by evacuating solid matter , the phallic by experiencing genital , Oedipal excitement . |
| 29 | Some arise from the very varied and specialist nature of the authority 's activities , such as child care , major city centre redevelopments , education , housing , planning inquiries , leisure , highways and airports . |
| 30 | As the hon. Gentleman and I both have constituencies in the city of Oxford , I was interested to learn of the comparatively recent endeavours to introduce motor projects there . |