Example sentences of "[adv] entirely [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family . |
| 2 | Thinking regarded as internal manipulation of events and ideas does not necessarily depend on language , but if it is not entirely ego orientated , that is not concentrated on the relationship of the person to the scheme of things , then it usually invokes iconic representation . |
| 3 | Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation . |
| 4 | Zimbabwe 's rulers are not entirely masters in their own house . |
| 5 | Not entirely fertilizers but that seems to be er the main cause of it . |
| 6 | Therefore the operation is now entirely direct-sales orientated supported by advertising in the local and national press . |
| 7 | ‘ My job is now entirely management . |
| 8 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 9 | ‘ But it is n't entirely Craig 's money , you know , a substantial part of it will be mine once my father 's estate is sorted out properly . ‘ |
| 10 | The animals coming into the infirmary were almost entirely horses . |
| 11 | the kind of people that come to my surgery are genuinely and almost entirely women who are struggling to keep their children |
| 12 | In the extreme southwest of England , N. lapillus very definitely selects mussels in preference to barnacles ( which are almost entirely E. modestus , C. montagui and C. stellatus ) restricting their distribution in some places . |
| 13 | The roots of the law of confidence lie in equity and it is almost entirely case law . |
| 14 | By contrast , the percentages of isolated teeth are higher in the trampled sample , and in the case of the incisors is greater than 100 per cent , indicating loss of jaws from the sample ( see Chapter 3 ) , in this case almost entirely maxillae ( Table 1.2 ) . |
| 15 | L. Khabarin , B. Mamyrin and V. Yudenich had discovered in 1978 that when they heated several metals to drive out helium trapped within , the gases were almost entirely helium-3 rather than helium-4 ; normally helium-4 is much more abundant , the helium-3 being the rare form . |
| 16 | In many cases the school was also the church , where the small groups of Christians , almost entirely Karen in race , gathered for Sunday worship and for Holy Communion when I was able to turn up , or occasionally one of my four Karen ‘ curates ’ . |
| 17 | In Scotland , the 16 ‘ Central Institutions ’ correspond roughly to the polytechnics in the rest of the UK , but in Scotland and Northern Ireland the colleges are typically ‘ monotechnic ’ ( concentrating exclusively on technology , education or art , for example ) , whereas in England and Wales they are now almost entirely multi-subject . |
| 18 | The figures that I have before me certainly show that the highest spending authorities comprise almost entirely Labour and the occasional Liberal authority and that those have some of the worst results . |
| 19 | Design is almost entirely mouse controlled , and is more fun than its name suggests . |
| 20 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 21 | In the Auvergne Region , the Departments of Haute-Loire ( in the SE ) and Cantal ( in the SW ) are the two almost entirely upland in character and within the LFA . |
| 22 | The seemingly endless lengths of costly fabric which the masked ladies bought when they were in London were almost entirely presents for family and friends . |
| 23 | It is the dorsal ganglionic centre of the head ; its nerve-cells are almost entirely association neurons and it is formed by the coalescence of the first three neuromeres in the embryo . |
| 24 | The wealthy rub shoulders in the village centre with its quaint olde worlde shops comprising almost entirely estate agents . |