Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving it from the training camp ground to the hospital ward was the most commercial and seemingly the most obvious — course to be taken . |
| 2 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |
| 3 | The enemy is wily and therefore the more unlikely a person looks , the more likely he is to be the secret enemy . |
| 4 | But , back in England , The Smiths felt unsettled and just a little paranoid . |
| 5 | Given the history of socialist economies , it is doubtful whether even a far more radical and complete transformation of the relations of production would , of itself , have removed this basis for class differentiation , and for this reason Morris remains a problematic model for contemporary socialism . |
| 6 | The vast majority of social research employs ordinal data or , more rarely , the interval scale : even in such cases it is doubtful whether even the most developed of such scales actually satisfy the requirements . |
| 7 | It is possible that only a very marked and rapid reduction in interest rates , which might cause a substantial shift in confidence , would be effective . |
| 8 | It is ironic that often the most severe weather conditions can produce some of the most intricate and fragile sights . |
| 9 | He came back several times , quite convinced that only a little greater effort would supply him with the treat he had in mind . |
| 10 | It is seldom simple and even the more experienced operators make mistakes , often because they do not understand the difference between source — what the original sound is like — and acoustics — what happens to it when it leaves the loudspeakers . |
| 11 | " She 's forgetful and sometimes a little difficult , but she still does the garden and she did all the cooking right up to your aunt 's death . " |
| 12 | And this is a novel which is I suppose an early but certainly a very embryonic attempt to write À la Recherche . |
| 13 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 14 | But when I needed a breath of air , or wished to explore Reine , and was out of the attic for an hour or so , leaving him alone there , he became depressed and even a little disagreeable . |
| 15 | Mr. Broderick said ‘ We can all see and condemn the naked anti-unionism of Companies like Pat the Baker , but this form of anti-unionism is far more subtle and all the more dangerous . ’ |
| 16 | I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable . |
| 17 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 18 | The decision to use the bomb remains the most controversial and probably the most important of the Second World War . |
| 19 | Frances has a horrible dog , Hotchkiss , the most odious and also the most convincing dog in literature . |
| 20 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |
| 21 | It is little wonder that even the most confident individuals experience some difficulty in trying to make sense of such an environment , one which is alien to most people . |
| 22 | Modern archaeology shows that prehistoric societies were complex , though even without this it should have been obvious that only an essentially stable and intelligent society would have constructed a structure such as the Neolithic henge at Avebury and its complex could not have been constructed over such a span of time ; involving as it did the excavation of a quarter of a million tonnes of chalk and the transportation and erection of hundreds of stones weighing up to about 50 tonnes each . |
| 23 | A smile curled across his lips , masculine and just a little smug . |
| 24 | In the case of a planet N is very large and therefore a considerably larger quantity of volatiles can be acquired by the planet by this means than it could acquire by capturing gases directly from the PFM . |
| 25 | The most widespread and probably the most serious destruction of archaeological sites , though , is caused by agriculture , including ploughing , deforestation and afforestation , and drainage and clearance of marginal land . |
| 26 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 27 | Hunger , caused by lack of food , is the most obvious and indeed the most powerful stimulus , but often we haven an appetite even though we are not very hungry . |
| 28 | By doing so , I shall demonstrate a point which is paradoxical but all the more interesting for that . |
| 29 | So again we do need to practise coordination it needs to have lots of practice , it is of course frequently affected by certain types of illnesses er and , and again that may be inevitable but again the more past experience you 've acquired and the more , the greater your ability to fight back , even though you 're fighting a losing battle if it 's an illness , can you see it 's going to delay the difficult bit the difficult part longer , you 're going to be able to cope . |
| 30 | They argued that it was often non-culpable since even the most respectable workers could not always save sufficient to provide for old age — a hazard which not all could expect to live to experience and whose length was uncertain . |