Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in 1974 , I made perhaps my most surprising discovery : Black holes are not completely black ! |
| 2 | This brings me to perhaps my most serious criticism of the Foreign Office , relating to the Rhodesian negotiations themselves . |
| 3 | Perhaps my most memorable day occurred with Paul on our ascent of Kichik Kumdan . |
| 4 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 5 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 6 | I am convinced that only my genuinely clear conscience let me convince the adults around me that I was totally innocent . |
| 7 | Perhaps his almost immediate resignation reflects the embarrassment which he has brought upon himself . |
| 8 | So it was basically my completely wrecked versions of someone else 's things . |
| 9 | I said oh you cunt , said I 'm your troop you ca n't me go in there , he says try me , I said bastard so I fucking right sea , fucking over the right you can come out now , marched back out again gave them a right old on the way back again , get changed again , alright , I thought you cunt |
| 10 | Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’ |
| 11 | Gironella has said he was drawn to this painting because Lezcano is holding some playing cards , so his disconcertingly direct gaze is inviting us in to test our wits and/or our luck against him . |
| 12 | Those who saw Paul VI from a distance heard only his increasingly strangulated voice and apparently complaining tone . |
| 13 | So my very real question to you is , ‘ Do you really , deep down , want to discourage him ? ’ |
| 14 | Her books deal in changing perceptions rather than unalterable truths , and she herself was perhaps her most imaginative achievement … . |
| 15 | But perhaps her most important legacy was in divesting the public culture of political language and political idealism . |
| 16 | But perhaps her most original gift is her ability to empathise with the everyday disappointments and sadnesses of the most ordinary lives . |
| 17 | Perhaps its most useful asset is that it enables the user to locate references in relevant literature . |
| 18 | Perhaps its most coherent exposition was a book called The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century , published in 1899 by Houston Stewart Chamberlain , an Englishman naturalized as a German . |
| 19 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 20 | Perhaps its most spectacular snapshots are of a red giant star called h Carinae . |
| 21 | The mass-produced ceramic drainpipes , which were perhaps its most important contribution to agriculture , were buried , the wire-netting and barbed wire which was to take over from walls , hedges and wooden fencing , confined to the ranges of Australia and the United States , corrugated iron hardly yet emancipated from the railroads in connection with which it had been developed . |
| 22 | But perhaps its most important characteristic is one which is only implicit . |
| 23 | Perhaps its most important aspect is that it is not confined to a particular region . |
| 24 | It contains all the essential amino acids and all the known B vitamins , but perhaps its most important constituent is haemoglobin iron . |
| 25 | George Orwell was particularly fond of striking these contrasts between the ordered stability of the past against the awfulness of the present , and he was also thoroughly wound up in the myths of English civility : ‘ The gentleness of the English civilisation is perhaps its most marked characteristic ’ , he wrote in an essay of 1940 , ‘ Everyone takes it for granted that the law , such as it is , will be respected , and feels a sense of outrage when it is not . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps its most unusual feature is the Intelligent Assistant , which allows you to ask the program to carry out certain tasks asking it plain English questions . |
| 27 | DEC 's preoccupation with its Alpha machines at the expense of its MIPS line has cost MIPS perhaps its most significant volume outlet besides Compaq Computer Corp , another ACE casualty . |
| 28 | Perhaps its most obvious success was its ability to prioritise community care among those local councils , health authorities , and FHSAs which historically had no inter-agency collaboration . |
| 29 | Red and white , the two colours so far mentioned , are joined by a third , black , to complete the Ndembu system of colour symbolism where the imagery reaches perhaps its most abstract level . |
| 30 | With the death of Victor Chapman , the first of the Lafayette to fall and perhaps its most beloved member , a new mood came over the Squadron . |