Example sentences of "nowhere [adj] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaucer makes this point on more than one occasion , nowhere more emphatically than at the end of the Canterbury Tales , after the Parson 's Tale , where he " revokes " in his " retractions " " " my translacions and endytinges of worldly vanitees " " ( endytinges : compositions ) including " " the tales of Caunterbury , thilke that sownen into synne " " ( sownen into synne : " resonate with sin " ) ( X : 1084 – 5 ) . |
| 2 | The modern world is juxtaposed against and involved with a world very definitely presented in terms of primitive rite — nowhere more clearly than in the ritual expiation of the curse . |
| 3 | Christianity is such a religion : God is worshipped through Christ , the male principle , and the affirmation of light is found nowhere more clearly than in the opening chapter of St John 's gospel , which includes the verses : |
| 4 | This is seen nowhere more clearly than in the Latin American Communist parties which ’ prefer systematically an alliance with a strong personality ( not to speak of a strongman ) rather than with an organised political party which could propose or , worse , impose independent tactics and a different and permanent leadership upon the whole alliance' ( Caballero : 1986 , p. 109 ) . |
| 5 | But by now , the whole Lockerbie investigation was dogged by a sense of futility felt nowhere more keenly than at the Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry which , just before Christmas 1990 , recessed for a month after hearing 150 witnesses in 46 days . |
| 6 | Does it even speak from some recognition , however disavowed , that police practices transgress the ‘ rules of civilized conduct ’ which they are supposed to be upholding , and nowhere more obviously than in their treatment of black people ? |
| 7 | And all in all not a bad place for a romantic tête à tête , nowhere more so than at the Las Palmeras Apartments where , among the seclusion of the palm trees , you can relax in maximum tanning mode with the partner of your dreams . |
| 8 | But they are pastoral at the same time , as you are constantly made aware , and nowhere more so than up here on the lofty Plateau d'Iraty , where several roads meet . |
| 9 | The river Trent has always flooded , and nowhere more so than on the levels between where its own waters and those of the Yorkshire Aire flow out into the Humber . |
| 10 | The policy stakes have been raised ; but nowhere more so than in Britain , which will be the luckiest to avoid a ( pre-election ) recession . |
| 11 | Film can cruelly expose limitations , and nowhere more so than in the case of the gloomy Dane and the blue-eyed wonder . |
| 12 | Farmers are under pressure from tough legislation in many areas of agriculture , but nowhere more so than in slurry disposal . |
| 13 | The steady economic growth and the increasing level of wealth which it generated led to an expansion of commerce whose effects were visible throughout the whole of France , but nowhere more so than in the capital , making it more and more a commercial as well as a political centre . |
| 14 | The same people , however , demanded a high standard from public works and nowhere more so than in the domain of street lighting . |
| 15 | The government 's policy of dividing the different ethnic groups among the African population has in some cases encouraged particularist nationalisms , nowhere more so than in Kwazulu , where the ‘ Zulu nationalism ’ of the Inkatha movement has contributed to a polarization of black society in Natal , with highly detrimental effects on the education system and on the lives of young people ( Chapter 13 ) . |
| 16 | The two Education Acts of 1986 and 1988 brought about some revolutionary changes in education — nowhere more so than in the role of governing bodies . |
| 17 | This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring . |
| 18 | Projects in Tilburg and in the Hague in the late 1970-s provided much practical experience , nowhere more so than in The Hague where deficient participation procedures angered shopkeepers who , fearful of trade falls through loss of car parking , tried to dig up the new cycle track . |
| 19 | We are in a decade when the timeless truth of John Wesley 's words is apparent , and nowhere more so than in the realm of church planting . |
| 20 | Although it was hardly disputable that a West German contribution to NATO would be invaluable , especially as the other European members did not wish to , or could not , meet the new levels of requirement set by the United States , the American demand caused consternation and an agonising evaluation of its consequences in the capitals of Europe , and nowhere more so than in Paris . |
| 21 | In a comparison carried out by the National Economic Development Council and the Manpower Services Commission ( 1984:85 ) it was said that the concern for a sound basic education is voiced strongly in all the three countries [ USA , Japan and the then Federal Republic of Germany ] as it is in the UK , but nowhere more so than in the US . |
| 22 | Nowhere more so than in the rape scene itself , which , in marked contrast to the humiliation of Lipstick , makes the men the object of spectacle , focusing on their behaviour , not Sarah 's suffering . |
| 23 | For unlike serf insurrection , slave rebellion was relatively uncommon — nowhere more so than in the United States — and never in the nineteenth century considered a very serious political threat . |
| 24 | The importation and use of drugs in this country is a major problem , nowhere more so than in our prisons . |