Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | RIGHT Archaeomagnetic dating involves the taking of samples of burnt clay : before they are lifted , the precise compass bearing is taken and marked on the sample 's container . |
| 2 | The most advanced technology involves the use of viruses which have been engineered for safety and to accept human genes . |
| 3 | Italy remains fairly static but the most striking growth shows the rise in importance of the Netherlands . |
| 4 | Thus , our participation in a rather advanced project minimizes the danger of our reproducing work already conducted elsewhere . |
| 5 | Zinc is the latest : lack of it supposedly causes a range of problems , although little scientific evidence supports the link . |
| 6 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 7 | With most light piston twins the only way to unfeather a propeller is to move the pitch lever into the normal range and crank up the engine . |
| 8 | For our present discussion , the most interesting finding concerns the difference between these two narrative conditions : both comprehensibility and recall were better in the after-theme condition than in the no-theme condition , although the recall difference did not reach significance . |
| 9 | His most interesting proposal follows the Treasury tradition of stealing , but slightly spoiling , the ideas of Mr Mervyn King , a professor at the London School of Economics . |
| 10 | Many have tried other companies ; they say our tuition is unbeatable , while our discreetly organised approach offers the widest possible freedom to choose between really interesting sailing activities . |
| 11 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
| 12 | If what I said above is true , since any observationally adequate linguistics describes the superficial form of the text the unique source of linguistic insight must reside in the deeper explanations offered by the linguistic theory . |
| 13 | The very highly enlarged illustration shows the head , neck and mid-section in more detail . |
| 14 | A chap can be supervising a spiffing archaeological dig on the Eastern fringes of the Soviet Union one day , only to find himself banged up in a Moscow jail on highly dubious spying charges the next . |
| 15 | This stress on merely individual responsibility ignores the reality of the interrelatedness of human life . |
| 16 | If accepted , this somewhat paradoxical suggestion leaves the problem of finding a role for consciousness in voluntary acts . |
| 17 | Less advertising spending makes the media conglomerates that are the most likely bidders poorer , as well as reducing the value of the franchises themselves . |
| 18 | So natural selection pushes the population even further towards the Always Defect extreme . |
| 19 | In some of his subsequent books this apparently effortless fluency denies the Possibility of conflict . |
| 20 | Just as actionable negligence requires the foreseeability of harm to others , so contributory negligence requires the foreseeability of harm to oneself . |
| 21 | This extremely flexible system allows the hotel to tailor service preferences for each guest . |
| 22 | This highly centralized system reflects the view that the railways form an integrated network for which localized differences in terms and conditions would be inappropriate . |
| 23 | And this , together with Ward Marston 's brilliantly successful transfer makes the disc preferable to Dante 's more limited , less vivid offering . |
| 24 | A second and less well-known treaty gives the US the right to defend the canal 's neutrality . |
| 25 | However , the second element must always be present : typically there are at least short-run gains from reneging on an agreement and so tacit collusion requires the perception that to do so would in the end turn out to be unprofitable because of punitive reactions by the other firms . |
| 26 | One highly experienced PRO tells the story of her first photographic foray . |
| 27 | However , the most dangerous predator remains the same as in Wallace 's day — man . |
| 28 | A rather similar phantasy informs the divide-and-rule thesis except that here it is the ruling class whose power is both all-pervasive , and works to sow the seeds of rivalry amongst those ‘ brothers and sisters ’ subjected to its tyrannical will . |
| 29 | If the former is the case , then a reduced vegetation cover due to mismanagement may lead , by affecting albedo and soil moisture , to reduced convective processes and therefore less rainfall ; thus self-perpetuating drought becomes the norm . |
| 30 | The universality of the pragmatic features of communication means that all communicatively competent speech contains the possibility of the ideal speech situation : |