Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His round , brown eyes regarded me obliquely , a little suspiciously above the high cheekbones . |
| 2 | Moral indignation sits rather uneasily on the hon. Gentleman 's shoulders , particularly on this matter . |
| 3 | The birth rate also continued to decline , though most slowly among the poorest . |
| 4 | Those who commit these crimes must be pursued most vigorously under the criminal law ; if they are allowed to get away with it others will take encouragement to follow their example . |
| 5 | Meaning is not an issue that arises for the Russian Formalists , and it is here that they differ most fundamentally from the American New Critics with whom they otherwise have so many similarities . |
| 6 | There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 7 | The promotion of language across the curriculum in the wake of the Bullock Report ( 1975 ) has been followed by proposals for pastoral care across the curriculum ( Marland , 1980 ) , and most importantly in the present context , for a coordinated whole-school approach to study skills ( Irving and Snape , 1979 ) . |
| 8 | During the 1930s , however , it was the Conservatives who capitalized most effectively on the larger consequences of the Wall Street Crash , using them not only to bring down a Labour Government and introduce tariffs aimed at imperial consolidation , but also to promote among the masses the spirit of patriotic self-congratulation so eloquently projected by Stanley Baldwin : |
| 9 | At first the gospel of family limitation appears to have been spread most effectively among the middle classes before it percolated through to the working classes . |
| 10 | At the upper end of the social and economic scale the mood of protest has been captured most effectively by the small but respected Republican Party . |
| 11 | Bhabha writes of how Fanon ‘ speaks most effectively from the uncertain interstices of historical change : from the area of ambivalence between race and sexuality , out of an unresolved contradiction between culture and class ; from deep within the struggle of psychic representation and social reality ’ ( foreword to Fanon , Black Skin , White Masks , p. ix ) . |
| 12 | Not dead , only decaying ( rapidly at first then rather slowly in an interesting way ) … |
| 13 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 14 | The world 's clearest sea water has been recorded in the Weddell Sea in early spring , clear enough for a Secchi disc to be seen at a depth of 79 m ( Gieskes et al . , |
| 15 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 16 | Their total estimate is for 220,000 dwellings annually until 1991 ( and rather less in the last decade of the century ) . |
| 17 | Manville was dead long before the heavy iron chains fastened around his ankles dragged his body to the bottom of the Potomac River . |
| 18 | The ultrastructure of the larger nerves resembles that of ganglia , with an outer lamella of collagen fibres in a mucopolysaccharide matrix secreted by perineurial cells , and with other glial cells lying most abundantly near the larger axons ( Osborne , 1966 ; Huddart , 1971 b ) . |
| 19 | Only during the last 100 years has the active cultivation of aquatic plants for decoration been practised , and then widely only during the last 25 years . |
| 20 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 21 | Moreover , all the circuit properties of a line are distributed along its length , uniformly so in the ideal situation of a uniformly constructed line . |
| 22 | Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) . |
| 23 | This manifests itself most obviously at the technical level where the same basic skills can be applied in different markets . |
| 24 | It was inevitable that the war in Asia would affect politics in Western Europe , most obviously in the military sphere . |
| 25 | MacPublisher 's first incarnation was , to be polite , dreadful and version II fared little better despite a brief spell of fame as Letraset 's LetraPage . |
| 26 | That she would be a little less like a young woman . |
| 27 | Well , A E Housman put it rather better in a different context . |
| 28 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 29 | There is hardly any difference between the sexes , except that the casque or bonnet at the back of the head and tubercles at the nostrils are a little larger , and the beautiful rosy salmon colour a little deeper in the male bird … ’ |
| 30 | It is " recursive " because the same rule ( in this case a branching rule ) is applied locally all over the growing tree . |