Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet resolutions of the lower House do not make law , and arguably the royal supremacy established over the Church by Act of Parliament during the Reformation had vested the monarch with the power to suspend penal statutes . |
| 2 | This is arguably the fundamental point made by a famous set of attempted proofs of God 's existence associated with the medieval theologian , Aquinas . |
| 3 | At 11.45pm the two men listened and waited in silence . |
| 4 | Thankfully the downward trend stopped at ‘ Cemetery Gates ’ , an absurdly overstated flash of self parody , immensely pretentious but laughably so , hilariously so . |
| 5 | The courts determined that the commissioners had exercised properly the wide discretion given them by Parliament and rejected the case . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend has illustrated powerfully the double standards employed by the Government to deal with ordinary people and those in the City . |
| 7 | It is the effort and pressure which the bowel-wall muscle has to exert in propelling onward the firm faeces produced by a Western diet ( rather than the soft and voluminous matter produced by fibre-rich diets ) which has been found to be the cause of this illness . |
| 8 | Additionally the new bill applied to all confiscations since May 1939 ( rather than June 1949 ) . |
| 9 | Slowly the great room emptied until only the six T'ang and the two young boys remained . |
| 10 | Slowly the long train wound past the derelict shanty-town houses between the water and the tracks where Malcolm Lowry was writing his great novel , ‘ Under the Volcano ’ , straight to the Pacific terminal of the transcontinental railway . |
| 11 | After half-an-hour of this eventually the other wheel dropped into place . |
| 12 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 13 | The Thurn und Taxis family , which had since the sixteenth century controlled the postal services of the smaller German States , maintained on behalf of the Emperor similar establishments in many cities of the Holy Roman Empire . |
| 14 | Ross had previously noticed that Minton seemed slightly uneasy on his own , ‘ as if questions might be put to him that he preferred not to consider ’ , and liked better the easy banter encouraged by the presence of a crowd . |
| 15 | She looked at him a bit anxiously , wondering how she was going to tell him , and suddenly the hard face softened and he held out his hand . |
| 16 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 17 | Caccini was dead but Peri was still composing in 1628 , when he contributed the music for the part of Clori to Marco da Gagliano 's La Flora and produced a work of his own , Jole ed Ercole , both for a ducal wedding in Florence Orpheus was still a favourite subject : witness the Orfeo dolente ( Florence in 1616 ) of Domenico Belli and La morte d'Orfeo , apparently the first opera produced in Rome , before the Papal court ( 1619 ) , by Stefano Landi . |
| 18 | There were fears of a crackdown in those republics demanding their independence , especially the Baltic states given the events of January 1991 [ see p. 37944-45 ] and more recent attacks on border posts [ see pp. 38302 ; 38350 ] . |
| 19 | The scene of Essex 's rebellion , in which the Earl never appears , has been judged unfavourably , especially the running commentary provided by the blind ballad-singer.I wonder how widely praised this scene would be if it had issued from the hands of Brecht or one of his collaborators . |
| 20 | The propellers are responsible for most of a hovercraft 's noise , especially the tearing sound made as the blade tips approach the speed of sound . |
| 21 | Perhaps the only occasion suggested in this chapter where you would n't want to press the flowers immediately is on Valentine 's Day . |
| 22 | Such a distinction was perhaps the greatest novelty imported into the world of classical antiquity by Christianity : no Greek or Roman would have tried to disentangle sacred from profane in his ceremonials , or even have understood the distinction . |
| 23 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 24 | It began with the statement : ‘ Perhaps the favourite accusation thrown at the National Front by its multi-racialist critics is that we are simply a bunch of bigots , that our stance on Race , the very heart and core of our political being , is no more than ignorant prejudice against Coloured people ’ ( Vanguard , April 1987 ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps the spiral designs originated in the ‘ Bandkeramik ’ of the Danube basin and arrived in Crete by way of the Cyclades , where stone pyxides were made with spiral ornaments ; but Stylianos Alexiou thinks it more likely that the spiral came from the Middle East , where it was used in gold wire jewellery from an early date . |
| 26 | Obviously the actual people chosen for training will depend upon the needs of your particular organisation and its PR programme . |
| 27 | Women for Socialism is all the more imperative given the labour movement 's political crisis ’ . |
| 28 | So the extra credit funnelled through the banks was ultimately provided by workers . |
| 29 | Gerd clearly is very apprehensive of this place , wo n't enter here , and if forced to do so the terrible event described in the next section occurs automatically , right in the doorway . |
| 30 | So the financial hardships imposed by temporary unemployment or strikes fell . |