Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seats and other fittings will be installed in due course to give the already huge exhibit even more scale — how small mankind has become alongside its creations ! |
| 2 | Will the doubtful gains for the child 's personality development of an undiscriminating total ban outweigh the fairly certain chagrin , embarrassment and isolation that will be experienced when he or she can not join in some of the most popular entertainments and games of middle childhood ? |
| 3 | The centre , in a joint venture with the LTA 's ITI scheme , has recently added five indoor courts to supplement the already existing five outdoor , floodlit courts , although the overall management of the Centre remains with JTC — and Lawson . |
| 4 | The result of one limited survey of penis lengths carried out by Dr Robert Charturn showed that of the five European groups measured the longest in each group ( as classified ) was : |
| 5 | Their combined experience built the most influential agency house in Canton , its fleet flying Scotland 's cross of St Andrew with colours reversed . |
| 6 | Like the labour movement in its formative period — like Chartism , or the early trade unions , or the utopian communities — the social movements of the 1960s were movements of liberation seeking an adequate doctrine and mode of political action to combat the most oppressive features of the societies in which they developed ; thus they directed their activities variously against colonial rule , domination by external economic powers , the rule of feudal-military elites , ethnic subordination , the subjection of women , or the domination of society by a rigid , centralized and bureaucratic apparatus . |
| 7 | We crossed the lowered drawbridge and went under an arched entrance depicting the wonderfully carved scene of the Annunciation . |
| 8 | From her sensible shoes to her practical haircut , her appearance proclaims her membership of that generation of British women who survived the privations of wartime and went on to spend their lives in ungrumbling toil creating the now tarnished Jerusalem of the Welfare State . |
| 9 | What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London . |
| 10 | For instance the strength of the priming effect suggests that covert recognition reflects the otherwise intact operation of the normal face recognition system when it is cut off from some centre of consciousness ( Young and De Haan , 1988 ) rather than the operation of a separate , subsidiary face recognition system . |
| 11 | Ex- Peta elements in the army distrusted Sjahrir who created the elite Siliwangsi division as a highly professional force to counterbalance the largely out-of-control TKR . |
| 12 | These early , marine forms included the hitherto enigmatic Hallucigenia , as well as Microdictyon , which before its discovery in the Chengjiang fauna ( Fig. 1 ) was known only from dispersed phosphatic sclerites . |
| 13 | Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Dal ( BNP — Bangladesh Nationalist Party formed in 1978 by merger of right-of-centre groups supporting the then President Ziaur Rahman ( assassinated in 1981 ) ; Begum Khaleda Zia ch. ; Badruddoja Choudhry vice-ch . ) . |
| 14 | The English LEAs spending the most on transport were Norfolk for primary children ( 30 ) and Cornwall for secondary ( 103 ) . |
| 15 | The hon. Lady demonstrates the typically inward-looking Tory approach . |
| 16 | Problems of social adjustment constituted the most frequent single source of anger outbursts among children . |
| 17 | It is easy to understand , cheap and simple to administer and can be varied in rate on different commodities to support the less well-off , by exempting food , for example . |
| 18 | On 1 December the Victoria and Albert Museum opened its new Samsung Gallery to house the most comprehensive collection of Korean Art in this country . |
| 19 | In addition to a direct toxic effect of ammonia , it has been proposed that ammonium ions may interact with neutrophil produced hypochlorous acid to produce the highly toxic mono-N-chloramine , NH 2 Cl . |
| 20 | These popular films encapsulated the very appealing elements of adventure , travel , intrigue and discovery — and of course romance — and helped transform the dusty image of archaeology into a infinitely more attractive package . |
| 21 | A new report from Frost & Sullivan predicts that the US plastic additive industry should enjoy moderate growth over the next five years as plastic consumption recovers from the recession , with light stabilisers showing the most dramatic increase . |
| 22 | Below the dado rails hang crossed pairs of pistols , the rest of the room furnished with punt guns on swivels , hunting flags , bear rugs and ornate glass-topped tables to show the more precious pieces . |
| 23 | Darwin put forward his theory of sexual selection to explain the apparently detrimental sexual characters possessed by many species . |
| 24 | Andrew Oxley , of Langbaurgh , said high inflation hit the less well off hardest . |
| 25 | And though Villa 's lively attack looked the more likely to score , they never looked like recovering after Kiwomya had given his side a deserved lead . |
| 26 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 27 | The essentials of Taylorism involve the use of work-study engineers to study in fine detail the work an individual is doing ; through detailed analysis develop the most efficient method of doing that work and establish a ‘ fair ’ time for performing particular elements of the task ; develop a specialised staff function whose task is to allocate jobs to individual workers ; and monitor performance against the rated time for the job . |
| 28 | One of the most painful issues concerns the increasingly urgent question about what to do with the 250,000 works of art which are rotting away in various stores as a result of the disastrous consequence of the BKR scheme . |
| 29 | Equally , the existence of alternative and proliferating versions of ‘ events ’ of dubious ontological status anticipates the more radical disruptions of narrative syntax carried out in the later novels . |
| 30 | Škvoreck ý's; The Bass Saxophone describes the particularly intense form this has taken under totalitarian regimes — both Fascist and Stalinist — when ‘ the ideological guns and sometimes even the police guns of all dictatorships are aimed at the men with the horns ’ . |