Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person . |
| 2 | The site was only advertised locally and my company only heard of the proposed sale via the foreman of a site in the same vicinity . |
| 3 | One lady even came armed with a floral chamber pot — she had obviously heard of the 14/20 Hussars Mess Dinners where a similar receptacle , but of silver is used for drinking . |
| 4 | He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena . |
| 5 | Most Labour Zionists were of German or at any rate European origin , and tended to be the better educated of the Jewish population in Palestine . |
| 6 | The reader is constantly reminded of the two main assumptions which Petrey takes to be central to the theory : that language depends on social conventions rather than on any individual 's intentions , and that language is used to do things rather than to represent things . |
| 7 | We are constantly reminded of the appalling condition of our houses . |
| 8 | Some manoeuvring , much flapping of the backward |
| 9 | Lastly to talk of the human ‘ species ’ fails to differentiate between people whose circumstances are very different . |
| 10 | A : There 's too much made of the whole dog show business . |
| 11 | In about 1895 the trade began to raise the popular image of the ‘ undertaker ’ from being a person who merely disposed of the dead to a funeral director whose main object is service to the public . |
| 12 | We thank you all for the great success you have all made of the 1985 Appeal . |
| 13 | This apparently disposes of the toxic fumes much more safely . |
| 14 | There is so much to see , even though it is all basically made of the same ingredients . |
| 15 | It is with good reason that presidents constantly complain of the large problems they face in trying to get the bureaucracy to do what they want it to do . |
| 16 | It is now widely accepted in political science that democratic activity and representation not only consists of the electoral choice between parties and their programmes but in the contribution to policy making made by interest groups . |
| 17 | This is one of the largest , most effective , and most highly reputed of the global inter-headhunter associations , with over 100 consultants in 29 offices in seventeen countries including Australia and Japan . |
| 18 | But sometimes he only thought of the next performance . |
| 19 | The better documented of the two is the second idea of ‘ ruling-class ’ crime . |
| 20 | When my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands , East rightly speaks of the essential nature of skills , training and investment , he has it exactly right . |
| 21 | In England obituaries regretted that he had not appeared more regularly for his country , while in Dunedin cricketers could only dream of the great things Jack Crawford might have done for Otago cricket … if only a World War had not interfered with something as important as cricket . |
| 22 | One has only to think of the simple arpeggios and ostinatos based on triads in Les Illuminations ( 1939 ) , or the seemingly effortless , tuneful setting of well-XXXX known poetry in the Serenade ( 1943 ) . |
| 23 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 24 | One has only to think of the British motorcycle industry and its once-prime position to see the folly of believing you can sustain a world leading position without constant innovation . |
| 25 | One has only to think of the Romantic period where poets became their own heroes , and their lives were seen as part of their poetic output . |
| 26 | One has only to think of the remarkable story of growing , harvesting , and weaving cotton with its social and industrial history to realize the enormous learning potential of such a project . |
| 27 | But it was also the year that the class structure of the underground , under pressure from a voracious music industry , ensured that a sizeable enclosure was partitioned off , in front of the stage , for the great and expensively attired of the new aristocracy . |
| 28 | However , much remains of the earlier Baroque building . |
| 29 | As McFarlane so aptly and untruthfully said of the Saudi contribution , ‘ the concrete character of that is beyond my ken . ’ |
| 30 | As already stated assessment is a daily practice of a good teacher who uses every opportunity to become better informed of the developing abilities of the pupils . |