Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1917 Malcolm was given command ( as major-general ) of the 66th division , which was badly mauled in the great German offensive launched by Erich Ludendorff in March 1918 . |
| 2 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 3 | And he urged a new emphasis on the victims , saying they were badly treated under the present system . |
| 4 | It , too , split with the Roman orthodoxy and eventually coalesced into the Coptic Church . |
| 5 | After asking for help from passers-by , they were eventually pointed in the right direction . |
| 6 | That pattern can also be called liberal , or bourgeois , civilization and it was most developed in the industrialized countries , least in the agrarian east and south . |
| 7 | Their use is most developed in the social insects , where each nest has a unique odour . |
| 8 | Among these were many of those most favoured in the ancient world , including agate , carnelian , jasper , lapis lazuli , sard and turquoise . |
| 9 | If the money is available fitted carpets are a good investment , particularly those that are patterned in a mid-shade of the colour most favoured by the elderly person , as this will not show either marks or dust so much as a plain light- or dark-coloured carpet does . |
| 10 | Most of the guests seemed to be either journalists , politicians , or fashion designers , the three occupations most favoured by the nascent New Delhi chattering class . |
| 11 | Shown here is the Queen Mother looking at the display relating to Frank Griffiths , the sole survivor of a Halifax that was shot down on a supply mission , and who was successfully hidden by the local Resistance . |
| 12 | But as many as are thus sottish , let them enjoy their own wildness and ignorance , it is sufficient for a good man that he is conscious unto himself that he is more nobly descended , better bred and born , and more skilfully taught by the purged faculties of his own mind.2 |
| 13 | Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month . |
| 14 | Why is it , for example , that every single Trust employee above the level of gardener 's mate speaks with an exquisite Wykehamist accent of the kind rarely heard outside the better cavalry regiments ? |
| 15 | The mid seems a little biased towards the upper part of the frequency band and at low level that also adds bite to the top end , creating a good , solid midrange tone . |
| 16 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
| 17 | A creature has a practical grasp of a domain if its behaviour is , within limits , successfully adjusted to the underlying constraints of the domain . |
| 18 | Those most coveted by the early civilizations of Egypt and Sumer , notably lapis lazuli , had been drawn from remote sources since Predynastic times . |
| 19 | Although some necessities , notably food , are exempt from VAT , other goods intensively consumed by the poor , notably cigarettes and alcohol , are heavily taxed . |
| 20 | Nor was it properly explained to the modern British public , any more than it was in 1925 , why the ‘ discipline ’ could not be imposed direct on the economy without it being necessary to cling to another country 's shirt tails to do so . |
| 21 | The debt at the end of the American war had been sixteen to seventeen times the revenue , and prophets of doom were widely heard amid the financial gloom . |
| 22 | That view has been little heard since the 1960s , when London reasserted a traditional suzerainty over theatre and literary publishing , and that so silently , and so naturally , that the reversion passed almost unnoticed . |
| 23 | Two prose characters for whom sympathy has wholly evaporated by the final scene are Parolles ( All 's Well ) and Lucio ( Measure for Measure ) . |
| 24 | Hassan al-Turabi , 60 , widely regarded as the chief ideologist of the National Islamic Front ( NIF ) regime in Khartoum , was attacked as he arrived at Ottawa airport , Canada on May 25 . |
| 25 | Alas , Castle Master , though widely regarded as the best of the Freescape games , suffers from the similar snail-paced somnambulance as its soporific stablemates . |
| 26 | It 's widely regarded as the best in town and is within strolling distance of the city centre and Maschsee . |
| 27 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 28 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 29 | The Hungarian minority was already complaining bitterly then of persecution — their plight widely regarded as the unfortunate flip-side of Ceausescu 's ultra-nationalism , which at least kept the Russians at bay . |
| 30 | Governor Mario Cuomo of New York , widely regarded as the strongest candidate the Democrats could field against Bush , announced on Oct. 11 that he was thinking about running for the presidential nomination . |