Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's loud , certainly , but by the time the third track , ‘ Earth Mofo ’ , kicks into gear the pattern of stodgy , leaden and downright lazy arrangements has already been well-established . |
| 2 | One of the most controversial measures adopted yesterday means that from September 1 old soldiers will have their war pensions disregarded in calculating their entitlement under housing and community charge benefits . |
| 3 | Properly lined curtains hang nicely ; unlined ones just droop . |
| 4 | The school librarian , unlike most professional librarians works alone , usually the on professional librarian in the school . |
| 5 | The Clinton administration has said that under its health reform plan all Americans would have access to a basic health care package that would provide all the services most private plans offer today . |
| 6 | Though proud of their strong balance sheets , most European superbanks have yet to imitate the Japanese by lending aggressively abroad . |
| 7 | Of course , the press had been the earliest communications free market , even if , in practice , most European nations have long had an additional element of political party patronage and state aid to individual titles and to the sector as a whole . |
| 8 | Up until now most advanced snowboarders have firmly resisted anything except a non-release binding . |
| 9 | A seminar to take you from the fundamentals of Data Communications to the most advanced techniques implemented today — in just 3 days |
| 10 | Hence workers in plants using the most advanced technology have both the awareness and the ability to mount revolutionary demands , and , moreover , suggests Mallet , their activities will act as a model and inspiration for the wider working class . |
| 11 | He was obviously not in the habit of apologising , and his rather florid complexion grew even more flushed . |
| 12 | Conversely , the wafer-thin ears of many bats act as sound frequency filters allowing all but the most ultrasonic frequencies to pass right through . |
| 13 | There stood the Shah , impeccable as ever in a well-cut grey suit and rather loud time ramrod straight , his face , always , expressionless before the cold white stare of his father . |
| 14 | In contrast to the rather weak relationships noted above , the Bank of England 's most up to date model suggests a much stronger impact of the interest rate on gross fixed investment ( Easton 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has been in England since 1975 and most ordained people take either Kelsang or Gyatso in their names . |
| 16 | In our own case , at Universal Shipyards , for example , we have one of the most unsightly buildings facing directly on to the river . |
| 17 | 90 per cent availability is now the norm , and there have been weeks when the 150/ 2 series , arguably the most reliable diesel trains ever to have run in Britain , have attained 100 per cent availability during the daytime . |
| 18 | A few remarks of mine in the past about the nature of my so-called ‘ disease ’ were simply rather embarrassed asides to explain away this foolish affectation . |
| 19 | It was naturally tempting for a rather superstitious man to trust again to an intuitive judgment of his own made in much the same circumstances as in the previous year . |
| 20 | The only minor disappointment is the rather short chapter on the personal social services which suffers somewhat from a rather overambitious attempt to cover too much ground ( i.e. the role of the statutory sector as well as the contribution of both the informal and voluntary sectors ) . |
| 21 | The most economical wash uses only 16 ltr of water and 0.45 kWh of energy . |
| 22 | That summer was the most exciting Sally had ever known . |
| 23 | Liveries have of course proliferated ; not since pre-1923 days have so many different colour schemes been seen , the only snag being that often two or more liveries are included in the same train where for example the PTE 's dedicated stock gets diverted . |
| 24 | His works were regarded as ‘ one of the best schools of its time for the training of practical mechanics ’ , the most distinguished engineer to work there being ( Sir ) Joseph Whitworth [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Our technique of solving the above equations has improved , and of course we are in a much better position now to evaluate the material constants , but fundamentally electromagnetic theory stands now as it stood a century ago . |
| 26 | Their usual professionally lugubrious expressions slipped markedly into stark astonishment , almost disbelief , hoping , no doubt , that this was not a glimpse of the future . |
| 27 | All five of the most popular texts identified here are described by teachers as providing one or all of these opportunities . |
| 28 | But in recent years a more rigorously scientific approach has unwittingly given some credibility to it — at least to the pentagon 's arbitrary gift of an eastern frontier for the Ocean . |
| 29 | They could also , of course , be used by less friendly rustlers descending unawares on those communities : one hill track between St Mary 's Loch and a ford across the Tweed was ruefully dubbed ‘ Thief 's Road ’ ; but most such raiders preferred to shun known tracks and ride straight across wild countryside on their sturdy little Border horses , known as hobblers or hobbies . |
| 30 | Gouache techniques produce very satisfying results , with the less liquid acrylics scoring better in this department . |