Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the book Mt Pelee is thinly disguised as the volcano Salpetriere , while St Pierre , the town which was actually involved in the eruption , appears as St Jacques , but the actual events of Thursday 8 May 1902 were so dramatic in themselves , and the tragedy so complete , that it seems a little unnecessary to dress up the facts in a romanticized account . |
| 2 | They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control . |
| 3 | Clearly many staff had found the self-appraisal to be a valuable exercise and it was such staff , it seems , that were most positive about the process as a whole and who were most willing to take seriously the advisers ' recommendations . |
| 4 | The less that gets out the better , whatever happens . ’ |
| 5 | It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants . |
| 6 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 7 | Obviously this puts up the system cost over long distances . |
| 8 | So this summarizes then the two processes of gating , here , and inactivation , here . |
| 9 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 10 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 11 | He accomplished much while director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art , but today is apparently content to sit out the art world harbouring bitter memories of what might have been . |
| 12 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 13 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 14 | While we might make this general point and follow through its implications when we want to compare , for example , Braniel people with Ballymacarrett people , it is much less easy to see how the relatively looseknit network structures of Braniel people might meaningfully be compared with each other . |
| 15 | While it is easy to understand why the drug makers pursue the will-of-the-wisp of the ultimate painkiller ; it is less easy to understand why the Committee on Safety of Medicines licenses them with no evidence of improvement in either safety or effectiveness . |
| 16 | It is understandable that facts such as those in Bank of Montreal v. Stuart may seem to justify this stringent requirement , but less easy to understand why the facts of Shears and Sons Ltd. v. Jones , 128 L.T. 218 should have done so . |
| 17 | Together these make up the content or syllabus of the course . |
| 18 | This is what Alexander experienced and is the very reason why it took him so long to sort out the problem with his voice . |
| 19 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 20 | Just tell me one last thing : as everyone is so busy wiping out the memory of the last 40 odd years , do you still want to keep your military headstone with its red star ? |
| 21 | Even to relatively unsophisticated subjects it is quite intuitive to sell when the price is high and store when the price is low , but it is much less intuitive to produce where the marginal cost is equal to some expectation . |
| 22 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 23 | Her denunciation rang through the dinner party and it was sufficiently vigorous to deter even the drunken George from persisting . |
| 24 | The authority is wiser and therefore better able to establish how the individual should act . |
| 25 | The teacher may feel it is quicker and less tiring to carry out the task alone , or to ignore teaching opportunities . |
| 26 | You will find it very much safer to use instead the thin blade known as a ‘ key-hole saw ’ or , as it is called in the form in which the blade passes into the handle and is gripped by a screw , a ‘ pad saw ’ . |
| 27 | And if we 're combining Morrissey and The Smiths ' covers , it 's only fair to point out the relative regularity with which three others have had their mugs used to shift copies . |
| 28 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 29 | But at least the Knitting Factory is blessed with a far better PA than is the normal preserve of such places — donated , apparently , by no less than Laurie Anderson — and the fragile webs of such head-in-the-oven epics as ‘ Power Failure ’ and the pulse-pummelling opener ‘ Bell ’ remain sufficiently well-spun to snag even the most neutral observer . |
| 30 | Parents find it extremely difficult to provide even the basic necessities for life today , and certainly when you begin to think of the sort of things that most children in this country have on a day-to-day basis — an ice cream , a trip to the swimming baths and so on — these families do n't er it 's a major crisis to provide for example sixty pence as entry to a swimming pool . |