Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that two years later the HMI Secondary Survey showed that popular fears about falling standards were largely unfounded did conspicuously little to change the prevailing attitude . |
| 2 | However , it seems rather unnecessary to introduce the negative sentence ( 2b ) into a consideration of the relationship between ( 2a ) and ( 2c ) which arises in the conversation presented earlier in ( I ) . |
| 3 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 4 | By the way er we may er be gratified to know that erm thankfully Labour lost the ninety eighty seven election but in , in it 's manifesto in nineteen eighty seven Labour proposed annual elections in local government . |
| 5 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 6 | At the beginning of February 1990 cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , caused one death in Tonga and T$4,000,000-worth of damage . |
| 7 | Cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , struck Western Samoa on Feb. 1 , 1990 , leaving seven people dead , 10,000 homeless and WS$306,000,000-worth of damage . |
| 8 | At the beginning of February 1990 cyclone " Ofa " , one of the most devastating to hit the western Pacific region , caused US$2,500,000-worth of damage on Niue . |
| 9 | Paradoxically this makes the moral and dynastic problems in the books less taxing to young readers , because they are isolated from the pressures of their own time . |
| 10 | Indeed , so strong have the differential views on advantageous locations become that one recent assessment of the total stock of foreign capital in developing countries suggests that it is less today than it was in 1900 , measured in relation to GNP ( Maddison , 1990 ) . |
| 11 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
| 12 | Perhaps that explains the large sum in his current account . |
| 13 | It is only possible to highlight the basic points and common principles in this chapter . |
| 14 | A crowd then assembled and threw pepper at the police , causing such a commotion that it was only possible to get the one-legged prisoner to the police station with the assistance of twelve constables . |
| 15 | Democritus , it is said , never appeared in public without laughing , so little did the serious pursuits of men seem serious to him . |
| 16 | In such an exercise we should be especially alert to identify the unreached , contact new arrivals and respond to unmet needs . |
| 17 | So that means the eight ladies and gentlemen sleeping here last night . |
| 18 | Place three cups on a table , one upwards and two downwards , and say to everyone the game is to turn over two cups at once so that cups the right way up are turned upside down and vice versa . |
| 19 | Well I have to say straight away that I 've erm worked on a Council with the Labour Party in opposition with us , and now with the Labour Party in Government with us with us a very small group , and I have to say it 's much preferable to have the Labour Party in power than to have the Conservative Party in power as far as we 're concerned , because at local level the sort of things that we want to do — providing better services , caring of people , all those sort of things — we do n't disagree . |
| 20 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 21 | As the value of the dinar sinks , the interest paid by the final borrowers in dinars becomes less and less adequate to pay the foreign exchange interest . |
| 22 | The farm worker , in many respects , has yet to achieve his place in the sun , but he is also less willing to accept the low status which the rest of society seems to offer him . |
| 23 | As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims . |
| 24 | I was very happy to see how much this pleased the young man . |
| 25 | In a liquid the motion and thus the kinetic energies of particles are sufficiently high to prevent the attractive forces holding the particles together in a crystal lattice . |
| 26 | Only those particles with kinetic energies sufficiently high to overcome the attractive forces between the particles in the liquid can escape . |
| 27 | At Châtillon the Old King was apparently willing to accept the proposed exchange and this might explain why Richard rounded on Philip , calling him a " vile recreant " . |
| 28 | It is interesting that the Treasury was only willing to publish the White Paper in the autumn of each year after rather than before the hard decisions fur the third year had been taken , and made no commitment to publish the Medium Term Economic Assessment , actually refusing to do so in 1971 . |
| 29 | Says Dana Stuchell at Trans-Species , ‘ We believe that it 's morally wrong to alter the genetic material of species . |
| 30 | Perhaps this marks the single biggest difference between Marxist Socialism , and Empirical Socialism as it is now practised . |