Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quartz , on the other hand , is the most stable and crystallizes at the lowest temperature . |
| 2 | The best Manchester bit is when he talks about still being with his wife — he looks dead guilty and starts feeling his nose in a very shifty manner indeed . |
| 3 | sh , he 's really sort of like , dead brainy and goes to the child-minder and goes to school and whatever ! |
| 4 | GPSG is computationally economical and has been developed to a point where a large number of interesting syntactic phenomena may be dealt with in an integrated formal framework . |
| 5 | It is the most demanding and requires a high commitment of all staff involved . |
| 6 | The nave arcade , with its capitals and columns , is the most interesting and dates from the eleventh century ( 401 ) . |
| 7 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 8 | ‘ Norlite is terribly sorry and knows it has to do things to the letter in future . ’ |
| 9 | When Jack and Alick , after being shipwrecked and narrowly escaping murder , starvation and sundry other perils , are reunited with Terence on board a brig-of-war , he declares it is worth being lost when reunion is so pleasant and ends with a flourish : ‘ Old fellows , I knew you would come back somehow or other ; I always said so ; astride of a dolphin , if in no other way … ’ |
| 10 | The organising committee is highly professional and lends ability and experience to the planning of such an event . |
| 11 | For example , in the word ‘ father ’ the second syllable , which is weak , is shorter than the first , is less loud and has a vowel that can not occur in strong syllables . |
| 12 | Novo Nordisk 's pesticide Novodor FC , based on a subspecies of Bacillus thuringiensis , is highly specific and controls the larvae of the Colorado beetle without harming non-target insects or animals that feed on them . |
| 13 | Tackling revision questions with fellow students reminds you that you 're not alone ; it allows you to comment constructively on one another 's outline answers ; it saves time ; it is mutually supportive and helps you maintain good morale . |
| 14 | But , according to Macchio 's lawyer , Norman Oberstein , ‘ It 's so absurd and strains one 's imagination . |
| 15 | He 's very funny , terribly generous and heightens any occasion . |
| 16 | The text can be highly discursive and reads like a series of points rather randomly formed into short paragraphs . |
| 17 | This is extremely patronising and helps no-one least of all the playwright . |
| 18 | As in the ease of classical criminology , positivist criminology embodied an assumption that there is some objective category of ‘ crime ’ that is obviously wrong and needs something doing about it . |
| 19 | My prognosis is extremely grave and follows from the diagnosis , that these are consequences of a divided society . |
| 20 | They discover , however , that the logic of narrative is far less rigorous and relies far more on individual taste : ‘ … it seems harder to tell a story , even our own , than to make up the most complex program . |
| 21 | It is extremely light and has a sensible gear ratio of 4:1 . |
| 22 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 23 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 24 | The computation required for each sentence is extremely simple and does not require the complicated intermediate storage of possible parses to be kept in memory . |
| 25 | Experimentally the system is extremely simple and consists of a device rather like a geiger counter filled with an inert gas and containing the atoms of the element in question . |
| 26 | In relation to corporate governance and in the different field of financial reporting , the legal framework is less restrictive and allows much more opportunity for organic development . |
| 27 | His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloé in being soft , rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons . |
| 28 | I 'm beginning to feel that the greatest threat to canoeists are other canoeists which is extremely sad and reflects the pressure on the BCU to resolve the problems associated with river access before we all end up squabbling . |
| 29 | A major ( and fundamental ) reform of public sector accountability is long overdue and needs to start from the top down ; that is , with constitutional accountability . |
| 30 | The track becomes less distinct and goes into birchwood and a beautiful glen . |