Example sentences of "the [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli Jews in the little kibbutz a mile or so away had never heard of it , but an old Arab woman in a long dark dress picking fruit pointed up a hill when she heard the name and shrugged her shoulders . |
| 2 | This means that the worst score a Forest Goblin can get on the ‘ Eadbangerz Chart is 2 ( ‘ I fink I 'm gon na … ’ ) and it is impossible for him to ‘ Eadbang . |
| 3 | He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave . |
| 4 | Alford was none the less made a deputy lieutenant of Sussex in 1627 , his services being considered essential to the defence of the county . |
| 5 | Marx 's social theory , although it did not advance in any detail beyond the analysis of capitalism as a mode of production to a study of the state and politics , did none the less sketch a conception of political development which was assimilated into the doctrines and practices of a large part of the European labour movement . |
| 6 | Remember that the less processed a food , the higher its mineral and vitamin content . |
| 7 | The less expected a choice , the more marked it is and the more meaning it carries ; the more expected , the less marked it is and the less significance it will have . |
| 8 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 9 | By paying this amount to the short , the long gets a yield to maturity of 9 per cent on his holding of Treasury 12' per cent 2003 05 as required by the futures contract . |
| 10 | Though the moment of penetration is almost painless , the presence of the botfly causes a lot of irritation , and by the time it has been in residence for three weeks or so , the resulting lump is quite painful . |
| 11 | Hand picking may not be the fastest way to harvest , but as Ernest and Julio are fond of pointing out , it provides the best start a wine can have . |
| 12 | In the longer run a policy choice which involved positive inflation would lead to an acceleration in the rate of inflation . |
| 13 | Within the city were two altars , a basin on a column , and at the further end a house : Antenor 's , who had made his peace with the Greeks and was spared . |
| 14 | One might expect that women 's paid work would have the most profound effect on the domestic division of labour : the more work a women does outside the home , the less she is able to do within it . |
| 15 | The more marked a choice the greater the need for it to be motivated . |
| 16 | But the more tutored a course is , it is likely that the less self-reliance and self-activity are produced in the students . |
| 17 | In which case are Upehull and Upsall related , the ‘ s ’ having been introduced by scribal error or misreading at some stage , or is the later form a name given to a family coming originally from Uppsala in Sweden ? |
| 18 | Most small aeroplanes have an average airspeed of about 90mph , and can fly much more slowly if necessary to apply rallying techniques to aerial navigation ( i.e. when the viz gets a bit iffy . ) |
| 19 | For example , at the lowest level a phoneme lattice was produced for processing by the lexical access component . |
| 20 | The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point . |
| 21 | Mr Robinson said he appreciated the OFT had a lot to do and claimed it would be more appropriate if trading standards officers could ask for assurances . |
| 22 | If an asset sale is a qualifying merger under FTA 1973 , because of the risk of an order for divestment the purchaser should make completion conditional on prior approval by the OFT using a clause similar to that in Clause 4.1(b) of the Standard Sale Agreement ( see Appendix III ) . |