Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique .
2 However , the writer who most explicitly questions the Western cultural tradition and proclaims the need for an alternative way of relating to reality is Julio Cortázar .
3 From the cinema itself there also came a piercing cry .
4 ‘ the application of tariff principles requires the sentencer to find the sentence which most accurately reflects the offender 's culpability , a process which involves relating the gravity of the offence to the established pattern of sentences for offences of that kind , and then making allowance for such mitigating factors as may be present which tend to reduce the offender 's culpability .
5 This is because the sentence itself only partly determines what happens to offenders .
6 ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint .
7 The cloth and thread to be used are then sent to the outworkers who very often work in the open air with their friends , talking , watching the world go by or listening to the radio .
8 Two days after the debate , on 6th August , 1859 , a leader appeared in The Times which not only questioned Scott 's suitability for the appointment , but also the new attitude of the professional architect towards his client .
9 ‘ If it had n't gone through this time , I would have had no time left in my life to enter the ministry I so dearly want to join .
10 The drug it most closely resembles is PCP , an animal tranquilliser .
11 Not listening was always one of my faults and one of the reasons I so frequently found myself isolated in misunderstanding : like a careless rider , cut off from the company , alone and benighted for failing to pay attention to the prevailing agreements as to intention and direction .
12 The column that gives the frustrated writing talents of the PR and hype business the exposure they so richly deserve
13 Education Secretary John Patten gave his seal of approval to the University which not only teaches it 's own staff , but caters for it 's future workforce .
14 Surely they must have some doubts , made some mental reservations to the creed they so confidently recited morning and night .
15 I can not help thinking that the booby who so completely misses the point of the question is often actuated by some hidden ( and mistaken ) motive of self-preservation .
16 And his face itself had taken on an almost gaunt look , the strong bone-structure rigidly marked , and the skin itself only lightly tanned , despite the hot summer they had just enjoyed .
17 As I say , it is the chorus which too often fails to rise to the occasion .
18 Within such studies there is a tendency also to concentrate on those ‘ academic ’ components of the curriculum which more easily lend themselves to didactic modes of exposition and question-and-answer teaching .
19 Mr Ward was so opposed to the selection that he told the Association he no longer wanted to be a member .
20 She strangled the reply which so nearly escaped her lips .
21 But gradually , over the years , they had defected , as weak as the teenagers they so relentlessly criticized : they 'd let the old ways lapse in order to slump like dummies in front of appalling chat shows and glimpses of the Sugar Plum Fairy and obsequious shots of the Royal Family and its corgis and babies , to goggle at old movies and new dance routines and to sit back sucking sweeties while sneering at pop stars and newscasters making fools of themselves at televised parties .
22 Rodo replied , ‘ The swamp you near enough got yourself eaten in . ’
23 It is notable that , on the final French campaign of 1449–50 , carefully and confidently organised by the king , and carried out by a much-reformed army , the majority of fortified places did not resist , preferring to open their gates to the side which not only controlled more firepower but claimed with greater vigour to represent legitimate and effective rule .
24 He thought of the future which no longer contained him but which he could still control .
25 We have seen the ways in which Sartre 's Critique shows how totalization can not work without a movement of self-transcendence , a repeated interpolation of an excess beyond the totality which paradoxically then means that the totality can no longer be a totality .
26 It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) .
27 The Bosnian police descend and apply the force which increasingly here is needed to secure delivery .
28 Even the Nobel prize winner for physiology and medicine , Sir Charles Sherrington , dedicated his prize-winning speech to Alexander 's work , but even to this day Alexander has not really received the recognition he so richly deserves .
29 Now , in Housesitter , he plays the part of a jilted architect who has built a house for the girlfriend who no longer wants to marry him .
30 This continuous movement was , of course , typical of bourrées and gavottes , and perhaps Bach was simply following a convention ; none the less , the result it not very distinguished .
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