Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control . |
| 2 | ‘ For that pittance , you 're willing to sell out the most beloved son of the Romanian people , their greatest leader in history ? ! ’ |
| 3 | Thanks to our twice weekly lessons , Olivia and I had now become confident enough in Hindi for the practice of it to become enjoyable rather than tiresome — if only because people were so surprised to hear any non-Indian speak even the most stumbling version of it . |
| 4 | The ‘ all or nothing ’ fears do not in this case apply and we may be encouraged to re-examine whether there is some give in the apparently uncompromising need for bit-perfect records of program software . |
| 5 | It would be better not to have an environmental audit if your management is not prepared to adopt even the less radical recommendations . |
| 6 | This forced even the most raucous Malthusian pill-pushers to tone down their rhetoric and ‘ integrate ’ family planning into health and development programmes — though their hidden agenda was still to get people to use contraceptives . |
| 7 | This reflected both the very high cost of land on Tyneside and the very high wages of the skilled workers for whose families they were built ( see North Tyneside CDP , 1978a ; Byrne , 1980 ) . |
| 8 | This makes even the most honest of answers seem indecisive and uncertain . |
| 9 | This makes perhaps the most inportant breeding area in Britain for this threatened bird — and bitterns can be seen from the hides here more regularly than anywhere else . |
| 10 | This makes all the more remarkable the eagerness with which Argentina is now proposing to sell Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales , its state-owned oil firm . |
| 11 | While we might make this general point and follow through its implications when we want to compare , for example , Braniel people with Ballymacarrett people , it is much less easy to see how the relatively looseknit network structures of Braniel people might meaningfully be compared with each other . |
| 12 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 13 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 14 | Table 16–2 picks out the most controversial aspect of the tax system , the marginal rate of income tax . |
| 15 | To open the literature programme we are delighted to welcome back the internationally acclaimed poets James Berry and Miroslav Holub to read from work past and present . |
| 16 | These lay down the marvellously patterned and polished surface characteristic of cowries . |
| 17 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 18 | Until a moment of madness by Bruce , the United stand-in captain , Alex Ferguson 's side appeared likely to open up the most significant lead in this topsy turvy title race . |
| 19 | Narrow fairways , water carries , 4-foot putts for par , a myriad of challenges likely to reduce even the most hardened player to a quivering wreck . |
| 20 | It was the waste of national resources and , to a lesser extent , the amount of human suffering in rural Spain , that in the years 1766–73 set off the most remarkable attempt at agrarian reform that Spain was to know until the days of the Second Republic . |
| 21 | She looked through the drawers of Bob 's desk , curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life . |
| 22 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 23 | You are probably aware that the Marauders hold the most physical area sales meetings in the UK , if not on Planet Earth : the reason for this is that they are then able to carry out the most professional and demanding surveys to get the sale . |
| 24 | ‘ With the continually changing mortgage market , Daniel , having discussed each client 's requirements , is then able to search out the most advantageous mortgage , whether from Halifax Building Society or other major lenders . |
| 25 | Nor have official bodies been able to ward off the most sinister threat . |
| 26 | Although we will not examine the technical aspects of these standards , it is important to identify briefly the most important initiatives . |
| 27 | Theoretically , therefore , the family is in the exceptional position of being able to put even the most historic items on the market . |
| 28 | Most hotels and similar venues have tracking spotlights and if you have plenty of set-up time , you should be able to cheer up the most basic hotel meeting room . |
| 29 | The process of establishing objective and approach may be assisted by the carrying out of a preliminary investigation , particularly where the investigation will be complex and resource constraints make it important to follow only the most promising lines of enquiry . |
| 30 | 2.14 Lord Wright in Davies v Power Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 provided perhaps the best known expression of this fact . |