Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 2 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 3 | Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity . |
| 4 | The register of " form " as " template " seems to catch exactly the potentially creative status of the text whose full form will only be realised when it is enacted . |
| 5 | Dated 1656 and painted by the artist at twenty-five years of age , it depicts the ship ‘ De Esperanca ’ , which was rented by the Amsterdam Chamber of the East India Company to escort home the incredibly rich return fleet of Pieter de Bitter and other merchantmen which had sought refuge from the English in the port of Bergen , Norway . |
| 6 | There are many repeating features in this book , and one such is Dickens ' amazing ability to conjure up the most absurd but believable characters . |
| 7 | Last week the first practical steps towards such a union were taken when leaders of the RPR , UDF and UDC met and agreed to form a tactical group to work out the most effective means of opposing the government . |
| 8 | At all levels of church life there is an urgent need for role-models to encourage even the most prejudiced and most embattled to rethink their ways . |
| 9 | Be that as it may , the most desperate measures were necessary to provide even the most slender chance of defeating the malevolent hordes . |
| 10 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 11 | While welcoming in principle the SIB 's recent proposals for simplification of the rules , Mr Bell said : ‘ Any changes , no matter how desirable , must however be implemented sensibly in order not to increase unnecessarily the already considerable costs of the regime , which in our case can only be borne by the policy holders . ’ |
| 12 | It enabled the committed to track down the less committed , and to identify ‘ the enemy ’ . |
| 13 | Nor have official bodies been able to ward off the most sinister threat . |
| 14 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 15 | It is impossible to guarantee that anyone you invited will turn up , so you could try to guard against wasting your time and money by sending courtesy cars to pick up the more important people . |
| 16 | Until a moment of madness by Bruce , the United stand-in captain , Alex Ferguson 's side appeared likely to open up the most significant lead in this topsy turvy title race . |
| 17 | They forced several corners and looked for the height of Simon White and Steve Harris to open up the sometimes nervous ‘ Mill defence . |
| 18 | However , herbs have always been used to pep up the more blandly-flavoured foods such as fish , vegetables and cereals . |
| 19 | What I have always said is that way you set up supervision behind the programme is the most crucial , so therefore if I can sit down and help them to set up the most strenuous type of supervision to go along with the equipment , then they feel safe and the community feel safer that none of them will go out and commit another crime . |
| 20 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |
| 21 | ‘ For that pittance , you 're willing to sell out the most beloved son of the Romanian people , their greatest leader in history ? ! ’ |
| 22 | Looking back on years that the Yorks were together , it is easy to pick out the really bad moments that led to the complete breakdown of their marriage . |
| 23 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 24 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 25 | The process is difficult , and demands the performance of millions of calculations to reach even the most elementary prediction . |
| 26 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 27 | She looked through the drawers of Bob 's desk , curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life . |
| 28 | Although the result lacks the variety of texture claimed above for genuine Eckard , it happens to resemble closely the somewhat exceptional authentic but unascribed piece by that composer on p.100 , in which the same accompanimental figure runs almost uninterruptedly from beginning to end . |
| 29 | It is difficult to tease apart the chiefly race-caused problems from those caused by inner-city economics . |
| 30 | It 's a curious superstition , the universal instinct to cover up the recently dead . |