Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 2 | These commodities are arguably the primitive valuables of early Anglo-Saxon society , used to oil the wheels of social and political activities ( Huggett 1982 and forthcoming ) . |
| 3 | There is n't work for everybody , so people who work are mostly the lucky ones . |
| 4 | For three centuries , however , an incident of landownership has been effectively the sole right to shoot deer on that land , either for sport or to prevent damage . |
| 5 | So it is misleading to suggest , as many psychologists and sociobiologists are prone to do , that these mechanisms are necessarily the prime mechanism affecting awareness and action . |
| 6 | The first concerns the continuing insistence that class and class-based processes are necessarily the principal mechanisms underlying uneven development and social change . |
| 7 | Third , they are suddenly the good guys . |
| 8 | Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there . |
| 9 | ‘ The conduct of the workers is deplorable , ’ wrote a French mining manager in 1869 , in the process of ferociously repressing the sort of strike of which Zola 's Germinal has given us a vivid picture , ‘ but one must recognise that they have been merely the savage instruments of agitators ’ . |
| 10 | Z Z Top are perhaps the only boogie band with a sense of irony , and their Greatest Hits package shows how brilliantly they combine John Lee Hooker with T-Rex . |
| 11 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 12 | They are perhaps the perfect mix for America : a friendly logo , a psychedelic edge , a great show and an Englishness guaranteed to stir the Anglophile lurking in every American . |
| 13 | The quite extraordinarily polarised assessments of his life and work are perhaps the ultimate tribute to the enduring potency of his political and literary activities . |
| 14 | Butthole Surfers are perhaps the ultimate expression of hardcore 's predilections . |
| 15 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 16 | The gigantic Tertiary boulder beds of Ecuador are perhaps the best-known example . |
| 17 | The instances where one can most easily make oneself aware of the distinction are perhaps the ambiguous phrases where the same adjective in construction with the same noun can be understood in either way with a consequent effect on the meaning of the whole phrase . |
| 18 | Regarded as a liberal , Bessmertnykh , 57 , had been hitherto the Soviet ambassador to the United States , and before that a First Deputy Foreign Minister . |
| 19 | This is a sinister view of the world of simulacra and simulation described by Jean Baudrillard , the world in which people have the illusion of being actively hooked into vast information networks , whereas in fact they are only the passive recipients of processed data , more and more isolated in front of their televisions and their computer screens ( 1970:186–91 , 1981:121–31 ) . |
| 20 | Before considering the automatic directions , it is as well to remember that ( although they will be sufficient in most instances ) they are only the bare bones of the directions the parties may need in a personal injury case , and do not prevent the parties seeking any further directions they may need under Ord 25 whether set out in PF51 or not . |
| 21 | It is true that the qualities of an object are only the various ways in which we or other minds are affected by it , and these affections are not the same in different objects , except in the sense in which the word same stands for exact similarity . |
| 22 | Now there are only the all-consuming docks . |
| 23 | In doing so I must make it clear that these are only the main functions ; there are of course many exceptional occurrences during a session , but time does not permit of my dealing with that here . |
| 24 | But for now there are only the empty frames on the walls of the cinema and the rich maroon emulsion they are set against . |
| 25 | Many of the sounds we hear emanating from insects , for example , are only the bottom end of a spectrum of sound signals much of which lie above the auditory frequencies to which our ears are attuned . |
| 26 | They are literally the only possessions she has in the world : those two pictures , and the ring , her father 's ring . |
| 27 | There are over three thousand mature trees within the five mile perimeter fence and they are literally the only trees for miles around . |
| 28 | What is visible are merely the rough foundation stones . |
| 29 | Healings , exorcisms , tongues , prophecy are merely the spectacular tip of the iceberg , the heart of which is a living , loving , believing Christian fellowship . |
| 30 | And it is the same attitude of world-weariness and sophistication that socializes each generation of students and new teachers into believing that their own blends of ill-formed idealism , intermittent enthusiasm and nagging doubt about the true value of what they are doing are merely the embarrassing stigmata of the beginner , to be covered up as much as possible , and grown out of as soon as possible . |