Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she did , sparing only the most intimate details . |
| 2 | Around Newbury from one to three lives was the rule , while at Faringdon tenure was hereditary , reflecting perhaps the mainly pastoral economy of the district . |
| 3 | Many companies , using only the most casual euphemisms , offer these services , so we spent a day on the phone talking to detective agencies listed in Yellow Pages , asking them what they had to offer . |
| 4 | USING ONLY THE MOST PRACTICAL OF MODERN MATERIALS . |
| 5 | There is obvious merit in good insulation , using only the most efficient kitchen appliances , heating systems and such . |
| 6 | By 1952 he was becoming all the more determined that the United States should not be tarred with the colonial brush . |
| 7 | Criminals are becoming all the more enterprising in their efforts . |
| 8 | But evolution ploughed on remorselessly , enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage . |
| 9 | I was astonished when we began walking down the now weed-strewn path to feel a familiar feeling of fear and expectation . |
| 10 | But even this admiration can be a form of ageism if , by singling out the truly remarkable , we minimise the more mundane but no less significant achievements of so many very old people . |
| 11 | Almost all PCBs are believed to enter the oceans via the atmosphere , enabling even the most remote parts of the globe to become contaminated . |
| 12 | We know their average heights , but we do not know if our ancestors were hairy or smooth , blue-eyed or brown-eyed , loquacious or capable of communicating only the most fundamental of information in grunts . |
| 13 | To begin with , the Cretan vases were made out of chlorite or chlorite schist , but the vase makers soon branched out into other materials , favouring especially the relatively soft and easily worked serpentine which can be found in various parts of central and eastern Crete . |
| 14 | On the whole we were an abstemious lot , but when the depression began to bite into salary rises during the early 30s , and escalating prices made living all the more precarious , some of us wondered if Tom Miller might have paid his staff what they felt to be their well-earned incremental increases by accepting a few extra advertisements . |
| 15 | If programmes aiming to pick up directly beamed contact' messages from other worlds are starved of funding , what possibility is there of anyone picking up the incredibly faint traces of extraterrestrial radio leakage ? |
| 16 | Reading through these lengthy reports and sifting out the very scattered references , sometimes token references , to the voluntary sector is hard work . |
| 17 | Amateur golfers travel to play , searching out the most challenging courses around the world . |
| 18 | One scholar holds that the many " changes and corrections [ to which the statute on schools was subjected ] confirm that the government had no serious intention of promoting even the most elementary primary education among the people " . |
| 19 | And yet , in spite of owning arguably the most recognisable profile in the world of fashion , Lagerfeld 's private life is led in self-imposed and deliberate seclusion , with rules of entry as strict as those applying to the court of Louis XIV at Versailles . |
| 20 | When scoring only the strongly reactive nuclei in the PCNA assay , which were assumed to represent the S phase cells , the individual proliferation indices between the two methods showed a Spearman correlation coefficient of r s =0.6 ( p=0.011 ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 21 | Small creatures moved and stirred amongst the undergrowth , the snapping of twigs and mysterious rustling noises sounding all the more ominous in the green cold silence of the forest . |
| 22 | Sprake was exceptionally good at pulling off the nearly impossible saves but his mind seemed to wander a bit ( perhaps back to the Valleys ) . |
| 23 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 24 | A government-commissioned report has calculated the cost of cleaning up the severely polluted industrial areas of the former East Germany at 17.8 billion deutschmarks . |
| 25 | Kirov dipped his hand into his pocket , pulling out the freshly stamped papers and looking at them in amazement . |
| 26 | The sequence-specific DNA binding function of HSV-1 Vmw175 resides in a discrete domain of the polypeptide comprising mainly the highly conserved region 2 sequences . |
| 27 | Educationalists agree ( and experience shows ) that headteachers who are actively involved in teaching can galvanise a school : but LMS is turning even the most committed among them into under-paid chartered accountants . |
| 28 | Excavations elsewhere have demonstrated that in pre-Norman times small hamlets and farmsteads were widespread , occupying even the most inhospitable upland sites . |
| 29 | But a chemist , wondering how the rather fetching picture of myself ( below ) might be affected by being doused in nitric acid , would find it easier to understand the ensuing mess if she ( or he ) understood it as a collection of molecules of cellulose . |
| 30 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |