Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These modes of thought are so deeply embedded in the collective conscious that ten years after the amalgamations , when the chief constable ( from the south ) replaced the flat cap with helmets , a number of ex-city men could not discuss the impending change without exhibiting distress and described this event as being something of an Armageddon , even though the expensive guard-style cap of the pre-amalgamation days had long since given way to what was always derided as ‘ a cheap and nasty alternative ’ . |
| 2 | There is perhaps only one situation in which one can envisage the majority speaking , and it is not a voice which one wants to hear . |
| 3 | Last week I saw you in Suddenly Last Summer in which I thought you were incredible . |
| 4 | Keeping them alive in mind and body is a much more accurate description of what we do . |
| 5 | Her elder sister ( 8 years ) had a much more accurate view of what Maria liked to play with . |
| 6 | Amidst the ‘ garotting ’ agitations of 1862 , however , those who were discontented with crinolined philanthropy and magnanimous justice discovered a much more amenable slogan around which to marshal their energies . |
| 7 | Joni used much more solid underpainting on which the flesh tones would be laid — convincing proof of a recent attempt at fifteenth-century painting . |
| 8 | will ultimately apply utilitarian standard , but he does n't make much of it here and he relies on a much more intuitive idea of what manage things well and he assumes that different branches of government will have different standards of success and that we will be able to tell pretty much whether they 're doing well or badly . |
| 9 | Such an argument , in implying that the problem is simply a question of the lack of history or of its presence , as if history were some undifferentiated entity that could just be added or taken away , stepped into or got out of , skates over the fact that the real question has always focused on the much more difficult issue of what kind of history , and of what status can be accorded to historical thought . |
| 10 | Modern photographic and printing techniques made both atlases feasible ; but there is also a much more fundamental way in which technological innovation has changed , and is continuing to change , the study of igneous rocks . |
| 11 | The evolutionary story , to the extent that it can now be understood ( and to the much more modest extent to which I understand it myself ) seems to me to give some support to the view that in this respect the historical story means very much what it seems to mean . |
| 12 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 13 | But it 's been adapted , it 's been worn by an ordinary person doing everyday things , and I think that 's , it 's something that 's , it 's very important to remember when you 're studying Victorian fashion and Victorian costume , that actually a lot of the documentary evidence gives a very biased picture and that to find clothes like this , I think you get a much more realistic picture of what people actually wore . |
| 14 | It constitutes the best evidence we have come across so far that training in which the critical stimuli become linked to different events generates a unique source of transfer to further discrimination learning . |
| 15 | ( Exercise 3.12.10 gives an example not so unlike Q in which no such m can be found . ) |
| 16 | The Government is ostensibly looking to Parliament to confer not just statutory enactment of what it negotiated at Maastricht , but moral and political assent . |
| 17 | For the British at large , Czechoslovakia , compared with some of the others , was a not too far-off country of which we did know something : that distinctive spelling , those operas . |
| 18 | It was an alarming and not very attractive event in which the Bisus were treated more like circus whores than like priests , yet retained a touchingly self-possessed dignity , despite the ragging they received from their " flock " and the abuse to which they subjected themselves with their own blades . |
| 19 | He suggests that such an analysis is for the ‘ intellectually bankrupt ’ , and that the predictive power of economics offers a more intellectually credible basis upon which to decide whether insider dealing is desirable or not . |
| 20 | But Shirley , Bill , Keith and Roger have found a more comradely social milieu in which to begin their pursuit of the good life , and to seek out occasions for the establishment of a reputation — Football ! |
| 21 | This is not surprising because there is still comparatively little available evidence from which such explanations can be derived . |
| 22 | There was really only one ground on which the reformers could agree , in fiction as in fact : that cleanliness , above all , was the answer , and that the working class could achieve it in conditions where it was possible to make a genuine home . |
| 23 | None of Britain 's 140 nuclear power stations will get a licence to continue operations until they provide far more detailed information on what damage they are doing to the environment and what steps they are taking to prevent it , according to an announcement from HM Inspectorate of Pollution . |
| 24 | And there was a second and even more admirable fantasy in which he had knelt at his father 's side , had pressed his clenched fist hard into the groin , quenching the spurting blood , had whispered reassurance into those dying eyes . |
| 25 | And the recent conflict between Presidents Hussein and Bush dragged the rest of us into it , causing even more ridiculous carnage over what I still do n't know . |
| 26 | There was an even more profound sense in which the prevailing version of good practice was deficient . |
| 27 | That negative , apprehensive , fearful , even sometimes hostile tone with which some Euro-sceptics approach and discuss the question is wholly contrary to the best interests of Britain . |
| 28 | It was , she thought , an almost indecently incongruous remark with which to begin a visit of condolence ; or was this his way of confronting her grief and stoicism by taking refuge on professional ground , the only one on which he felt confident and could speak with authority ? |
| 29 | I was just gon na point out that if you were to refer to the approved key diagram , you can get a quite easily visual representation of what that embraces . |
| 30 | And if this process can be conceived as relevant not only to a possible future but to processes of critique and struggle now , then to point to the emergence of black American , non-Western and European ‘ folk ’ elements within mass produced popular music commodities — with however ambivalent results — may be the historically most significant way in which we can put Adorno 's critical pessimism in its correct place . |