Example sentences of "[adv] the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , it should not be our desire but rather the consciously felt will of our true nature , free of emotional entanglement , that remains as the sole initiator of our action . |
| 2 | Unfortunately this is not just because the ideas will be taken up , but also because the savaging of the universities , especially the technically minded ones , will reduce the number of ideas . |
| 3 | In this remark , perhaps the earliest preserved utterance of an English housewife , she certainly seems to have assumed that such food would be a normal part of the family diet . |
| 4 | 2.14 Lord Wright in Davies v Power Duffryn Associated Collieries Ltd ( No 2 ) [ 1942 ] AC 601 provided perhaps the best known expression of this fact . |
| 5 | Perhaps the best known play , and eventual film , about mental handicap was ‘ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg ’ based on the true-life story of Abigail , born to the playwright Peter Nichols , and born a spastic due to a difficult birth . |
| 6 | Daniel Lehrman is perhaps the best known critic , but there were ( and are ) many more . |
| 7 | The term ‘ blindsight ’ was coined by Larry Weiskrantz at Oxford to describe perhaps the best known example of this dissociation , in which patients with damage to the visual areas of the cortex deny being able to see a visual stimulus while behaving in some respects as if they are processing it , for instance by moving their eyes in its direction . |
| 8 | Perhaps the best known version is Shakespeare 's seven ages of man which is a poetic statement of what had already been received wisdom for centuries and was to remain so for centuries to come . |
| 9 | Perhaps the best known exponent of this model of general education in the UK is Hirst ( 1969 ; 1974 ) , but it is familiar in most countries , and results in the relatively academic type of secondary school curriculum that one finds in the English grammar school , the French Lycée or the German Gymnasium , with appropriate national differences of emphasis ( the English have always stressed ‘ process ’ rather than ‘ breadth ’ ) . |
| 10 | The statutory undertakings discussed above are perhaps the best known examples of the implied terms recognised in the common law and have been codified as such . |
| 11 | Trading in the shares of a target company on the basis of inside information is perhaps the best known form of insider dealing . |
| 12 | All that remained was the 18th — and the stone Swilcan Bridge , perhaps the most photographed landmark in golf . |
| 13 | Perhaps the almost doubled entrance prices coupled with the knowledge that big international games lie ahead contributed to the poor show . |
| 14 | He came nearer , and the light of the June evening turned the tanned planes of his hawk-face and the ridge of the bold , importunate nose to copper , and picked out the russet reds in the short , dark beard , scoring deeper the deeply graved lines of audacity and laughter . |
| 15 | So the newly established Energy Efficiency Office will have an important contribution to make in ‘ selling ’ energy efficiency particularly should rapid rises in energy prices not provide the prime incentive to economise . |
| 16 | So the highly defined agenda of a festival such as this may well be the way forward for gay men who 've long been marginalised and denied fair access to the media . |
| 17 | But it seems fair to add that the Green Party pledges to allow only the most needed road schemes and switch money to public transport . |
| 18 | It had collapsed in on itself and only the partially covered base remained to show a glimpse of its former beauty . |
| 19 | Now only the heavily contaminated heart of the machine remains |
| 20 | Despite this problem we found only the well known associations between endometriosis and age and parity . |
| 21 | He heaved his bulk round , but saw only the tightly wedged backs of the mob out in the street . |
| 22 | The story of the weekend was most certainly the success of the team that travelled the full vast width of the country to emerge as only the second-ever to represent Newfoundland in the final . |
| 23 | The full 13 parts are to be shown later this year but only the very-hard-to-please will jib at the prospect of seeing these three programmes again . |
| 24 | Les McJannet played his first game after a two month lay off , but only the ever improving Ellison made an impression , especially on watching Celtic manager Liam Brady . |
| 25 | Scrape away the carefully acquired patina of professional success , prestige , orthodox good manners , and the real man was there ; ambitious , a little vulgar , sensitive only when sensitivity paid . |
| 26 | Already the painfully acquired experience from the traumatic events of the night was fading , overridden by the kill-fever which was gripping them , taking over their entire beings . |
| 27 | Paperwork was usually the least enjoyed part of farming and it was invariably left to wives . |
| 28 | Moreover the commonly held view that the rational expectations hypothesis is the natural offspring of neoclassical and new classical economics has considerably limited the wider application of the concept of rational expectations in macroeconomic models which do not take the assumption of market clearing as their point of departure . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's still the best kept secret in Belfast , but the station will become a household name and it wo n't ever stand still , ’ he promised . |
| 30 | He is still the best equipped Chancellor on the Conservative front bench ; she is still the best Thatcherite Prime Minister we have . |