Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 2 | Was he taking up the gauntlet against the subtle yet inevitable erosion such wealth would bring to the culture of his people ? |
| 3 | The 15th normally annual session of UNEP 's Governing Council at the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi , the Kenyan capital , on May 15-26 , 1989 , was attended by representatives of 103 governments , 26 UN agencies , eight intergovernmental bodies and 29 international non-governmental organizations . |
| 4 | One fact which people often forget is that horses which have passed the acute clinically ill stage of the disease will still remain infectious for up to six weeks or possibly even longer . |
| 5 | IBM has posted the largest ever annual loss in US corporate history — $4.96 billion . |
| 6 | THE largest ever new product offering was on show at the ‘ Wedgwood 1993 ’ annual trade fair at Barlaston . |
| 7 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 8 | The turning point in our campaign came in 1987 when the Easthall Residents Association ( ERA ) and our allies worked together on two unique initiatives — the Heatfest Housing Project and ‘ Housing makes you Sick ’ — the largest fully independent survey into housing and health ever carried out in Britain . |
| 9 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 10 | I believe the magazine was read quite widely even by some of our hierarchy , and sometimes I felt obliged to censor the odd more outspoken word when I considered it might cause trouble . |
| 11 | It 's actually a very fast guitar and after half an hour of chords , runs and the odd quite musical moment , I found myself getting on really well with it . |
| 12 | People had the money or the shops they were on show on the that most expensive dress shop . |
| 13 | The lower more level land , around Balerno , for example , is good agricultural land . |
| 14 | Which left her free to make mistakes , overdo the set of his features , and she grinned at the strange yet familiar creature , disdainful nose , filll lips and ridiculous chin . |
| 15 | Yet later , after Mubarak 's death , Genet discovers that he did not sleep with women or men ; all of his sexuality was social : ‘ the warmth of that voice had the shy yet imperious sureness of an erect penis stroking a beloved cheek . |
| 16 | The little dumpling stands to attention with its arms stiffly by its sides , as if being told off by a parent ; the shroud appears to be a shift with separate head-cloth but in actuality is nothing more than the usual loosely gathered linen , parted with greater than usual emphasis to show the entire face . |
| 17 | THE sex in the rest of the film , otherwise the usual rather silly collection of schematic cliches by David Hare , follows a similarly leaden pattern . |
| 18 | Because of the common age of onset being in the late teens it can easily be equated with the usual somewhat awkward behaviour and natural rebellion of teenagers , and initially be set aside by both relatives and professionals , resulting in great family trauma , and at times violence or suicide . |
| 19 | With a quick wave she darted off through the clusters of people , and Caroline was left facing Roman , abruptly gripped by shyness as well as the usual quietly simmering resentment . |
| 20 | Several features of O. abyssicola and O. granulifera distinguish them from most species of Ophiacantha : the high often indented disk , the arm spines of O. granulifera forming a fan on most proximal arm segments , large conspicuous disk plates and the very wide ventral arm plates are all reminiscent of the Ophioplinthacinae . |
| 21 | Conversely , because of the universal very steep learning curves with early experience , any novel enterprise is bound to have extensive teething troubles , which should be allowed for in general even though they are not predictable in particular . |
| 22 | The minutes crawled like tired snails , but the ambulance arrived before Tom had returned from making his phone calls in the study , and with the compassionate yet businesslike speed that Belinda never ceased to admire , the paramedic ambulance officers slid Faye on to a stretcher and carried her to the waiting vehicle , where an intravenous line could be set up immediately . |
| 23 | You had the old bleeding white gas cooker the dangerous one . |
| 24 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 25 | It was certainly overt in Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ( 1964 ) , with its surrealistic emphasis on machinery ( a Coke machine , a wheelchair , telephones , radios , computers , aeroplanes , bombs ) , culminating in the semi-mechanical yet sex-obsessed figure of Dr Strangelove ( Peter Sellers ) himself , whose rebellious mechanical arm keeps rising in a gesture at once phallic and fascist . |
| 26 | The primary care physician should emphasise the positive diagnosis , the chronic yet benign nature of the systems , the role of stress , and the ineffectiveness of drugs . |
| 27 | [ Drawing on a case register summary he continues ] any further reduction of mental hospital beds will be to the detriment of the chronic mentally disturbed person . |
| 28 | His air of tetchy , meticulous perfectionism , which encourages those around him to walk on eggshells , percolates through the entire Really Useful organisation . |
| 29 | Thirdly , in economic theory it is presumed that any level of output is always produced at the lowest technically feasible cost . |
| 30 | After a series of high speed taxi-runs , at 8:38am on September 21 , 1964 NAA 's Chief Test Pilot , Al White , and the USAF 's project pilot Colonel Joe Cotton lifted 20001 off the runway by the 5,000 foot marker , leaving behind them a sooty trail from the six most powerful jet engines then known to exist . |