Example sentences of "' [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the last opening , 400 visitors in one afternoon flocked in to admire the Weedons ' strikingly formal walkways flanked by irises , lavender , peonies and closely clipped privet hedges . |
| 2 | Douglas Adams ' Mostly Harmless ( Pan ) is right back to Hitchhiker standard ; Len Deighton , with City of Gold ( Arrow ) , is back on form too ; Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( Mandarin ) is just brilliant ; and the New Virginia Andrews ™ , Secrets of the Morning ( Pocket ) , is the second of the trademarked lot . |
| 3 | Douglas Adams ' Mostly Harmless ( Pan , £4.99 ) stands head and shoulders above the rest of the pack . |
| 4 | Other big sellers included Sue Townsend 's The Queen and I ( which most booksellers agreed was very sensibly priced at £9.99 ) , Mr Bean 's Diary by Rowan Atkinson , The Liar by the ubiquitous Stephen Fry , Douglas Adams ' Mostly Harmless , Andrew Morton 's Diana ( mainly in paperback ) and James Herriot 's Every Living Thing . |
| 5 | The FADS ' criminally disappointing first album , ‘ Pigeonhole ’ , hung , albatross-like , around their necks for the whole of last year , marking them out as no-marks , never-rans , couldn't-have-beens . |
| 6 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 7 | The Oakland left fielder , a unanimous choice as the series ' most valuable player , put on a display of aggressive running between the bases that had Toronto in tatters . |
| 8 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 9 | Iro 's direct running down the wing always looked the tourists ' most promising mode of attack , and on the stroke of the interval , he muscled past three defenders to give the Kiwis a 10-4 half-time lead . |
| 10 | No visit to this area is complete without a walk around one of Wales ' most famous headlands . |
| 11 | General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed and 50 wounded . |
| 12 | General Miguel Maza Marquez , chief of the investigative police and one of the traffickers ' most vocal critics , escaped unharmed as he did from a car bomb attack last May in which seven people were killed . |
| 13 | Yet banks ' most compelling concern is access to precious capital , and mergers could prove one of the quickest ways to get it . |
| 14 | At the centre of the action in Joshua 6 is the ark , the Israelites ' most sacred object of all , the box containing the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments inscribed upon them , the box upon which , so they believed , their God was invisibly enthroned . |
| 15 | Above right : one of Koons ' most famous works from his earlier period , ‘ Rabbit ’ , 1986 |
| 16 | 1.10 am , Birmingham Selly Oak : Anthony Beaumont-Dark is one of the Tories ' most voluble MPs and if he loses the country will be a quieter place . |
| 17 | Selly Oak is the Tories ' most marginal Birmingham seat . |
| 18 | As the larger chart shows , two of the three issues on which the Tories ' most improved their position between mid-March and Thursday were inflation and taxation — the issues they put at the heart of their propaganda effort . |
| 19 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 20 | The building has been refurbished , and access is either by boat , or across trackless fields ; but there can be few more attractive places to spend a fishing holiday , right on the edge of one of the Borders ' most productive lochs . |
| 21 | Working in close association with designers , builders , brokers , agencies and banks to fulfil our clients ' most exacting requirements . |
| 22 | Self-confidence bordering on arrogance is one of Graeme Souness ' most abiding characteristics . |
| 23 | They tend to concentrate on manufacturers ' most popular brands |
| 24 | Reliable domestiques are the stars ' most valued comrades — and by long tradition they share the stars ' winnings . |
| 25 | Not only did the occupiers introduce gin to the island , which remains one of the locals ' most popular drinks , but in 1813 cricket was recorded as having been first played in Menorca by the surgeon of HMS Scipo — a match which received the patronage of Admiral Lord St Vincent , the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet . |
| 26 | The Willses ' most obvious contributions in the sphere of education have been the founding and development of the University of Bristol . |
| 27 | St Andrews ' most celebrated caddie . |
| 28 | Needless to say ( if you saw the BBC2 series ) , this inexhaustible well of fun is pure genius , as the two nasal , patronising , Tory airheads ( based on all of Fluff Freeman , DLT and Simon Bates ' most heinous crimes ) turn ‘ chit chat ’ and ‘ being MAD ’ into a way of ( avoiding ) life . |
| 29 | The investments are reported at the lower of cost and net current value , the latter based on the enterprises ' most recent accounts . |
| 30 | Abersychan RFC 's main claim to fame is that it produced Bryn Meredith who , at 34 games , is Wales ' most capped hooker . |