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

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1 What 's happening to the local government this time of the democracy and they have been savagely attacked savagely attacked at the locally controlled Labour councils .
2 Such an exhibition , and its permanent record in the lavishly illustrated new book edited by Wendy Roworth , should alert us to the rich possibilities offered by serious reassessment of the work of such a varied , complex and intellectual artist as Angelica Kauffman .
3 But with more than 50mpg available and the possibility of good deals to reduce the outlay , the cheapest Fiesta has made me take a long hard look at the lavishly equipped hot hatch we use as a shopping car .
4 Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates .
5 And further , is it really possible — given the varieties of people , the gigantic distances and the vastly differing ideological systems to be found in the Pacific — that this part of the world could assume the mantle of leadership ?
6 Nevertheless , the vastly expanded social contacts removed a shield of isolation from village life .
7 We were even using the papally approved contraceptive method , only in reverse .
8 In Manhattan , the famous yellow water-taxis thread their way through the grid of canals to take you directly to the landing-stage of hotels in the luxuriously converted upper storeys of what were once the city 's proudest skyscrapers .
9 First , the ‘ working class ’ in Britain may be seen as a subset of the economically defined working class ( i.e. wage and salary earning employees separated from the means of production ) , although it probably also includes sections of the petty bourgeoisie ( in the strict sense of small-scale producers and traders employing their own means of production and labour power ) who regard themselves as ‘ working for a living ’ .
10 The British middle class , on the other hand , includes large sections of the economically defined working class ( especially salaried employees ) as well as sections of the petty bourgeoisie proper and sections of the ‘ individual bourgeoisie ’ ( i.e. personal owners of means of production and employers of the labour power of others ) .
11 To look at the matter differently , one could say that the members of the economically defined working class in Britain are divided between the ‘ working class ’ and ‘ middle class ’ collectivities , with this division depending on a range of factors including place within the division of labour by strata , parentage , education , home-ownership , and income .
12 These include the curved canines and straight incisors of hippopotamus , walrus tusks , which project downwards from the upper jaw , the teeth of the sperm whale and the spirally twisted left tusk of the narwhal .
13 None of the districts came out with a clear resolution of the underlying planning difficulties , and the clear cut local decision in favour of closures which the RHA had hoped for , was not forthcoming .
14 The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate .
15 Wandering through the vibrant streets of Rome , one is constantly reminded of the widely differing historical periods .
16 President François Mitterrand had warned in December following the most recent city riots [ see p. 37869 ] that modern socialism had to come to grips with the management of urban society , and the worst affected local authorities had complained that they lacked resources and bore a heavy burden compared with more affluent areas .
17 Only a week after the strike , a clean-up of the more open violence had begun in the worst harassed loyalist districts .
18 The stylishly colour co-ordinated hotplate offers the best in gas technology , with three standard and one semi-rapide burners , each igniting instantly at the touch of a button and each with a simmer-stop position , which maintains a steady flame at a low setting .
19 This is clearly a much more sophisticated analysis of the phenomena than the empirically invalidated instrumental account .
20 The Italian dirty tricks department worked overtime as Galvano 's management tried to scream ‘ no contest ’ , claiming a head clash caused the badly cut left eye that meant their man could n't go on after the third round .
21 They also suffered most from the centre-left government 's failure to push through reforms — in particular , its failure to modernize the badly overstretched social infrastructure in the northern cities to which the migrants had flocked .
22 Glancing over at the faint quiver in the hand holding her fork , and at the nervously fluttering long eyelashes , casting dark spiky shadows on her pale , trembling cheeks , he gave her a warm and reassuring smile .
23 Yet many of us do not really know how much we drink or the medically recommended sensible drinking levels .
24 And not just the ordinary version you see today , but the rarely encountered Hanoverian version .
25 During her third term Mrs Thatcher became the longest serving Prime Minister this century , and she has had , therefore , an unparalleled opportunity to change British society .
26 Since Walter Scheel had been elected President on 15 May , Schmidt 's foreign minister was the new FDP leader , Hans-Dietrich Genscher who became , by 1989 , the longest serving foreign minister in the Western world .
27 What is the length of the longest recorded recorded freight train ?
28 After all he had been through he had missed the longest standing running record of them all by just one mile !
29 Mandy Rodrigues is the editor of Adventure Probe , the longest running multi-format adventure fanzine in the known universe , and proprietor of Atlas Adventure Software .
30 The National Food Survey is the longest running continuous household food survey in the world .
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