Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was exactly eleven o'clock when the nurse came to her and said , ‘ You may go and see him for a minute . ’ |
| 2 | It was eleven o'clock when the police called . |
| 3 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 4 | Thus while it is important to always play you 're best side AND in our case this must involve finishing high enough up the table to get a place in europe , we must keep players like Rocky and continue to play them in the first team . |
| 5 | Just as the disease varies in intensity from one sufferer to another so also the pattern of recovery will vary considerably from one recovering person to another . |
| 6 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 7 | Milton never makes clear exactly how the Lady 's virtue is saved . |
| 8 | To enable the miller to do this more easily the arms or stocks swept to within a couple of feet of the ground . |
| 9 | It is not clear precisely how the Commission will apply these tests . |
| 10 | Never sunbathe between midday and 2 pm when the sun is strong |
| 11 | Or the girl with the nail polish and cuticle remover on the five-items-only check-out at Tesco 's , or the doctor 's waiting-room at 9.35 am when the surgery says SHUT and your child has a conker in his works . |
| 12 | It is not clear either how the authorities will prevent the illicit export of art . |
| 13 | This certainly not the case , however , and the general biomedical principle of designing the material to give a balance of properties appropriate to the particular environment is very important . |
| 14 | ‘ We had an extraordinary example of this recently when the Department of Transport was asked to nominate roads for the proposed Trans- European Highway Network , and failed to consult Welsh Office Ministers before proposing the A5 across Snowdonia . ’ |
| 15 | It appeared to some that somehow the police had been left to solve or to break the strike by impeding the exercise of the rights of persuasion and protest aimed at bringing out the miners who were still at work . |
| 16 | At 10 o'clock when the Division bell goes , the House will have been sitting for seven and a half hours , from prayers through questions , statements and this debate . |
| 17 | The Soiree on 23rd December 1869 took place in one of the distillery lofts " a few minutes after six o'clock when the hall was completely crowded , upwards of 600 persons being present . " |
| 18 | In addition to the changes in the numbers of cells in S phase of the cell cycle , the cumulative distribution of these cells also changed so that the population of dividing cells was spready further up the crypt in the higher fibre fed rats . |
| 19 | Okay , yeah better transport technology a hundred and fifty years ago it was impossible t erm , to transport meat across the Atlantic it 's er , very straightforward now so the advent of different types of , er , transport technology and improved transport technology erm , has made tr , facilitated trade okay . |
| 20 | Bet they ai n't got this much even up the palace . ’ |
| 21 | After an introduction by the presenter , who usually speculates on the issues likely to be raised with the Prime Minister that day ( a tiresome waste of time , especially as he is frequently wrong ) , the programme goes live , with only minimum commentary , till about 3.48 pm when the presenter returns to summarize the exchanges ( another waste of time ) . |
| 22 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 23 | By 7.20 a.m. virtually the whole of the Bois des Corbeaux was again in French hands . |
| 24 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 25 | I , he could have had that straight on the paper . |
| 26 | We 've put it all together just the way you wanted . |
| 27 | You are not quite sure exactly how the spies would communicate with each other — that is , are you to investigate letters , phone calls , radio transmissions , or informal notes ? |
| 28 | Dr. Lamont writes that " Islay has no relics of the Palaeolithic age , but traces of Mesolithic settlement , principally of " kitchen middens " of small mobile communities , which are found in the vicinity of the 25 foot raised beaches " which were formed before 2500 BC when the sea was roughly at its present level , and says " It was , however , in the New Stone Age ( 2700–1300 BC ) that men took effective possession , pasturing their domestic herds , practising a simple agriculture , and interring their noble dead in impressive chambered cairns . |
| 29 | The following morning my crew and I were up at 4 am when the tide lifted us . |
| 30 | If some aspects are not feasible then either the range or direction of the investigation may require to change or , in the extreme case , a new investigation may need to be selected . |