Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Projects UK , 1 Black Swan Court , Westgate Road , Newcastle ( Until March 7 ) AS the second of the four overseas photographers , who came to Tyneside last summer , thereby pre-empting the international flavour of the Cleveland 's River Tees project by more than a year , Natassa Markidou , who has a studio and dark-room in Athens , decided that she wanted to commemorate her stay in the North-East by going back to basics . |
| 2 | Veteran Australian Cheyne Horan took third place , while Tahiti 's Vetea ‘ Poto ’ David , a popular favourite with the crowd , who stylishly hot-dogged the biggest waves on the shortest board , was only narrowly pushed into second . |
| 3 | If this is so , it renders rather arcane the controversy about whether the dipnois were the true air-sucking lungfish , or the crossopterygii as is recorded in most textbooks . |
| 4 | It was most odd the way this woman had immediately made her feel as though she had to be conciliating . |
| 5 | Teachers ' status position in the school hierarchy also significantly affects these attitudes , the most senior ( heads and deputies ) being almost neutral , the most junior the most negative and ‘ middle management ’ ( heads of faculties , departments , years ) slightly less so . |
| 6 | Again the most senior teachers in schools are the least negative in this regard and the most junior the most negative . |
| 7 | Rather dear the shirt . |
| 8 | Also at the table were the Most Reverend the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs Robert Runcie ; Viscount Churchill , a former Lord Mayor of London Sir Robin Gillett , and Lady Gillett ; the Earl and Countess of Strathmore , and the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps the High Commissioner for Cyprus and Mrs Tasos Panayides . |
| 9 | Mostly definite the restaurant . |
| 10 | There 's something about that flight … every time you do it , you just get off the plane shaking your head and thinking how incredibly tolerant the staff are . |
| 11 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 12 | Sure , ‘ Something So Good ’ and ‘ Harbour Force ’ are thoroughly adequate on a headnodding level , vaguely emotional and politely insistent the both of them . |
| 13 | and I think that rather ruined the whole afternoon erm |
| 14 | As the banks were rather steep the defenders spent several days cutting entrenchments and embrasures in expectation of battle . |
| 15 | Broadly speaking , the less social closure there is , the less cohesive the social class grouping will be . |
| 16 | Who would have dreamed she would be so fiery the first time ? |
| 17 | In under a minute they 'd made two sharp lefts and a squealing right , and were roaring down a back street so narrow the least miscalculation would have taken off handles , hubs and mirrors . |
| 18 | Since published sources for instrument makers are extremely scarce the French archives provide the best ( and perhaps the only ) opportunity for new research on the Hotteterres . |
| 19 | er the coach to er to er Bowness on the bus we took thirty nine pound erm with discount from last year people who er bought some last Christmas we made twenty three pound on that the library , only thirty pence course , we 've had trouble with the library because we ca n't leave it here now and er so that 's why it 's s so low the , the income . |
| 20 | Your Mum 's fucking fanny is so wrinkly the crabs have got walking sticks . |
| 21 | And Celia comes and she 's cheerful and she does the admin with them , she organizes it and I just personally I 'm just so grateful the best thing which has happened to me . |
| 22 | jumping around while I was talking to her on the phone , I was getting so pissed the phone . |
| 23 | But one can go on almost endlessly tinker-tailoring the sources of greenness : Nordic nature-loving fascist , Quaker , Zen Buddhist , Taoist , Social Creditist , Marxist , socialist , pacifist , quietist , 1930s Green Shirt . |
| 24 | The sound was so terrific the trains seemed to pass across the end of the bed , and we drew up our feet instinctively . |
| 25 | In early 1947 a bitterly cold winter damaged industrial output and trade , and although the economic impact was only short-term the psychological blow to popular morale seemed significant . |
| 26 | Calcium and magnesium salts may then be added to partly catalyse conversion of a acids so pre-empting the boiling reactions . |
| 27 | In this diagram the higher the lines the less stable the oxide . |
| 28 | Continuation of inflation at this kind of rate would cause the whole problem to recur in that the value of gold stocks , at the new fixed price , would be regarded as insufficient in relation to the rising value of trade , and speculation on a further gold price rise , against the dollar , would redouble ( as it would have been proved so profitable the first time ) . |
| 29 | The rise in rents between 1848 and the late 1880s more or less matched the rise in real wages during the same period . |
| 30 | The reverse also holds ; the smaller the organization , the less prevalent the problems and generally the more constructive and productive the conflict . |