Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A woman is beautiful to the extent that she most completely incarnates the secret aspirations of man ’ , wrote the poet Benjamin Peret in his Anthologie de l'Amor ; and whether in the work of Magritte or Masson , Max Ernst , Dali or most chillingly of all , Hans Bellmer , the female form appears distorted , dissected , feathered , bound and strapped to machines , she rarely even wears a face . |
| 2 | As ever the builder was one jump ahead , or rather ahead of any one who 'd jump . |
| 3 | Algorithms such as reversing sequences of ie to ei following a letter c are effective first attempts before going on to more complicated techniques , or even instead of such techniques which may turn out to be counter-productive in terms of time taken and the number of candidates produced . |
| 4 | I would honestly say , and it may sound arrogant , that although the White Paper came out in 1975 and it was some sort of a landmark to point the way , we were never conscious here of any tremendous pressure or even really of any light pressure to reorientate our services to the Priority Services . |
| 5 | In the remaining insects only the basal segment contains muscles , Johnston 's organ is present and increase in the number of segments occurs through division of the 3rd segment or sometimes also of some or all of the more distal segments . |
| 6 | It was not comfortable to consider her parents ' intimate life ; she could recall no demonstrations of affection or indeed even of much displayed interest in one another . |
| 7 | The index of the city 's wealth is its contribution of £1,704 to the subsidy , which , although far ahead of that of any other provincial town , was only slightly more than a tenth of London 's £16675 . |
| 8 | Above all , and most curiously of all , it is to come to a deeper knowledge of the inexplicable mercy of God , and of that fierce love that simply will not let his world go . |
| 9 | Your assistance in telephoning alterations , even temporary , of time , place , closure and most importantly of any new classes would help the scheme to be efficient and always up-to-date . |
| 10 | The greatest differences between the groups were in understanding the different ideas ( propositions ) in a sentence , in dealing with problems of grammatical unpredictability , and most simply of all , in recognising words . |
| 11 | The word ‘ mor ’ first occurs in Saxon accounts of King Alfred hiding in his wetland fastness in Somerset , and most evocatively of all in our national epic poem Beowulf . |
| 12 | The programme is an all-Ravel affair consisting of the ( with Mikhail Rudy ) , and most interestingly of all , Yan Pascal 's own orchestration of the Piano Trio . |
| 13 | I see now that finally , critically , and most insidiously of all , I had started to lose my self-respect . |
| 14 | She hid more success with the identities of various names that had been puzzling her since their last encounter , and most satisfactorily of all , she placed the baby . |
| 15 | MINIS , however , by dividing departmental work into discrete blocks , and summarizing the costs/objectives/achievements and so on of each , provided the basis for such a reorganization within the DOE . |
| 16 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 17 | And perhaps best of all is the 19th hole , for if you ignore ( and it 's hard ! ) the hospitality of the Golf Academy , Seefeld is full of cafés , beer kellars and superb restaurants . |
| 18 | For the LEA , and somewhat untypically of most LEAs at that time , it was not a problem of finance for the scheme which had been difficult but the reluctance to establish a precedent through appointing a tutor for adult education . |
| 19 | For a moment he imagined he was in another world , a simple uncomplicated world : a world where there was no place down below in the valley where men were being prepared for war ; that there was no place in Northumberland where a woman sat in a room all day with only her thoughts for company ; that there was no one called Carrie Smith ; that the world had dwindled and there was only this secluded garden and a secluded house , as had been said , with the hills to the back of it and the river at its feet and two women so unalike , yet alike : so understanding , so thoughtful of each other , and not only of each other , but of him . |
| 20 | Our curtain rises , then , in the nineteenth century , when the study of man was treated as a kind of history and more especially of that generalizing sort usually known as ‘ universal history ’ which is so well represented today in the works of Arnold Toynbee . |
| 21 | So instead of those two , we 'd , we 'd do that first , as you 've done it and then instead of those two we 'd just write two A B. So it 'll come to A squared plus two A B plus B squared . |
| 22 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 23 | Dedicated courtiers , undistracted by families , they soon rose to powerful positions , first in Mameluk Egypt , then in Ottoman Turkey , but most prominently of all in Mughal India . |