Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our experience , the A-2 runs slightly small . |
| 2 | Why are the North York moors not included in the 12 proposed environmentally sensitive areas ? |
| 3 | In December they picketed the Guildhall and the local Unionist Party headquarters , and called on the unemployed to become more militant . |
| 4 | He said that the new ‘ learning for work scheme ’ — intended to provide opportunities for the unemployed to pursue vocationally relevant full-time courses of education , with fees paid and an allowance equivalent to their benefit entitlement for up to a year — gave another opportunity for the longer-term unemployed to take up training opportunities and thus to increase their chances of finding employment . |
| 5 | The older two continued their walk , but the youngest seemed more interested in the girls than his brothers were , and stayed to dance with several of them . |
| 6 | The English came very close to establishing a real live Queen of Beauty in the person of Elizabeth I ; her cult was that of the ever-lovely and ever-youthful Virgin Queen . |
| 7 | Just a few paragraphs in and we are plunged into the fog and grime of the capital : in 1817 the American Ambassador was enveloped in a midday fog in Bond Street so thick that he felt tempted to ask how the English became so great with so little daylight . |
| 8 | At the end of my reading , the lecturer asked the newcomer his name , and I heard his voice for the first time — a soft , warm American accent , with the rich , furry tone the English find so attractive . |
| 9 | Despite intensive efforts to reinvent the national identity along imperial lines — including the rebuilding of central London as a theatre for imperial parades — the English remained obstinately English , refusing to think of themselves even as ‘ Britishers ’ , let alone as members of the Greater Britain projected by imperialist dreamers . |
| 10 | The British swept aside traditional food-and-agriculture systems in all the countries they ruled , replacing them with food-store and cash-cropping . |
| 11 | As a corollary to the undifferentiated nuclear deterrent , the British became increasingly insistent from 1954 that Nato 's forces in Central Europe should be limited to a trip-wire role . |
| 12 | The British felt very confident of their position at sea ; to reinforce the strength of their blockage they laid down unilaterally the rule of 1756 that neutrals could not take advantage of wartime conditions to enter upon trade that would not have been allowed in peacetime . |
| 13 | R : It 's true that the British seem very lacking European solidarity , but you know our activity was n't just about altruism , far from it . |
| 14 | In general , however , the British remained more conscious of American criticism than support in the Middle East . |
| 15 | While the Americans endeavoured to cultivate Arab support when and where they could , the British remained more reliable and useful partners , especially in the Persian Gulf . |
| 16 | And what Claudia was to find is that our century has proved that the irrational and the immaterial have as strong a hold as ever . |
| 17 | The French became increasingly equivocal . |
| 18 | And er the French speak very good English |
| 19 | The French seem more nervous about buying garden flats , for example , than the British , so these can often be proportionately cheaper . |
| 20 | It was not only English intervention which brought this about , for although this undoubtedly tipped the balance , Mary of Guise held Edinburgh castle , and the French appeared almost impregnable in Leith . |
| 21 | The French built surprisingly modest stations in North Africa . |
| 22 | For the few considered politically reliable enough to get a closer look , there can be no mistake . |
| 23 | If anything , the metabolism of the obese becomes more sluggish when exposed to the cold . |
| 24 | On 10 August the Japanese bombed most Portuguese towns on the island to discourage support for the Australians . |
| 25 | Although America 's electronics industries are keen for the government to renew the parts of this agreement that call for the Japanese to buy more American chips , their ardour for price-fixing has cooled . |
| 26 | The second aroused more positive interest , though it is unclear with what precise effect . |
| 27 | The second accepts as normative American practice , with which foreign judicial authorities must not be allowed to interfere . |
| 28 | The second seems more likely since the Mexican navaids do n't have a great record for reliability . |
| 29 | Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time . |
| 30 | Such claims , which would be dismissed today as unscientific , were taken seriously in the past even by the great , who were no less willing than the humble to accept as true what brought them comfort . |