Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aleksandrova rather confusingly calls the northern and southern belts arctic tundra and subarctic tundra , separating them by the 6°C July isotherm . |
| 2 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 3 | ( b ) those details and examples that seem most successfully to illustrate the main points . |
| 4 | And it was the artists of the day who most successfully exploited the decorative and symbolic aspects of jewellery to create pieces that were both beautiful and distinctive . |
| 5 | The engineering emphasis will be on the search for mechanisms which can most effectively perform the required functions with the human operator in a support role undertaking functions which are not readily mechanised . |
| 6 | IBM Corp yesterday stepped up its pitch for OEM business , most strikingly offering an enhanced version of the 9371 microprocssor-based Personal/370 Adapter/A co-processor , so that designers can build 370-compatibility into workstations via a co-processor.The company 's Entry Systems Technology — Personal Systems business unit is also offering some of IBM 's handwriting recognition products to third parties , including technology that recognises both script and block capitals ; and in addition to the currently available PenPoint version , ThinkWrite will be available this year in versions that run under OS/2 and Windows for Pen Computing . |
| 7 | The conduct of the by-election was investigated by the central Election Commission , which , in an unprecedented decision on March 7 , countermanded the by-election on the grounds of electoral malpractice , thereby effectively ordering a full re-poll . |
| 8 | While Pius XII 's encyclical Mystici Corporis brought back the concept of the Church as the body of Christ to the centre of Catholic teaching , it most remarkably avoided the slightest reference in this to the relationship between the Eucharistic body and the ecclesial body , and omitted the slightest notice of the basic Pauline text for that relationship , 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 9 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 10 | From somewhere below came a great rending and echoing squeal of torn metal . |
| 11 | From somewhere below came an enraged crashing and bellowing . |
| 12 | Most only need a small angle of bank , as the rudders on gliders are not very powerful . |
| 13 | By phrasing control in these terms , the courts can preserve the impression that they are thereby only fulfilling the legislative will . |
| 14 | It was through his West Indian interests that his career most obviously spanned the great divide of 1660 . |
| 15 | The primary products in which the UK has most obviously become a net exporter are oil and gas . |
| 16 | The law of affinity , as defined by the popes , most obviously affected the political marriage-makers , the aristocracy . |
| 17 | Take the crack through these then traverse delicately leftwards to reach a good ledge . |
| 18 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 19 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 20 | Mr Moss Evans 's union , the Transport and General Workers , had called the lorry drivers out on the strike that a reading of contemporary newspapers suggests was the event , seen as characteristic of the abuse by trade unions of their power , that most vividly exposed the vacuity at the heart of policy and so most damaged the Labour Government 's prestige and prospects . |
| 21 | It should be noted that just as all deputies combined a school-wide responsibility with teaching a class , so most combined a major school-wide responsibility from the first list above with one or more of those from the second list . |
| 22 | People only rarely make a positive choice , weighing up one credit arrangement against another . |
| 23 | I sometimes turn the possibility of this over in my mind , but only rarely does a suitable piece of information present itself . |
| 24 | But whereas calypso now only rarely contains a political message reggae almost always does . |
| 25 | The Cartesian cogito — cogito ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) — conventionally if somewhat simplistically marks a major point in the emergence of Western individualism . |
| 26 | For example , faced with the ratio of a two to one majority decision in the Court of Appeal as against dicta of three judges in the House of Lords agreeing with the dissent in the Court of Appeal and casting doubt on the correctness of the majority opinion , but not expressly overruling it , it is clear that the Court of Appeal must follow the dicta of the House of Lords rather than the ratio of their earlier decision , so paradoxically preferring the persuasive to the binding authority . |
| 27 | They so often have long since lost the literal meaning of their origins , and thus they are frequently capable of causing gross confusion and comic misunderstanding . |
| 28 | Man-made fibres and plastic sheeting have long since replaced the porous cambric or fine cotton linen which had been the standard material for sails over seven decades . |
| 29 | Many of them were difficult to reconcile with orthodox Marxism , but on the other hand , the Soviet Communist Party , for instance , had long since annexed the great Russians of the past to grace the progress towards Stalin or Khruschev or Brezhnev ( or whoever reigned in the Kremlin ) , Ceauşescu 's hagiographers chose Alexander the Great , Napoleon , Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln ( among others ) to compare with Romania 's new president — in fact , he combined in himself all of their virtues . |
| 30 | The fourth sister , the one who had found the child in a basket on the banks of the river , and insisted on adopting him , had married Burraburiash of Babylon and long since left the Black Land . |