Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cautioned museums not to embrace wholly mass media which ‘ simplify and cheapen ’ the experience of art , and declared the museum 's main purpose is not preservation , but ‘ cultivation of the human spirit ’ . |
| 2 | Rowntree 's stringent poverty line produced remarkably similar results to those of Booth . |
| 3 | It should be said , incidentally , that the remastering of the original 78s has , without affecting the overall frequency range , virtually eliminated their surface noise and produced remarkably quiet backgrounds : the only exception is the Prokofiev sonata ( which Horowitz introduced the USA ) , where the 1945 recording ( the earliest here ) is also more resonant and in which , just occasionally , a little to much pedal is used : the tremendous drive of his rhythm nevertheless makes for a compelling performance . |
| 4 | Indeed , it seems to be a general rule that organisms acquire new capacities by modifying existing structures rather than by inventing wholly new ones . |
| 5 | By comparison , on Gibson 's Flying V guitar , the bridge pickup has to sit rather high because of the effect the tune-o-matic bridge has in raising the height of the strings above the body , which I 've always thought looked and felt a little clumsy . |
| 6 | Individual psychological treatments entailing long sessions with any kind of therapist seem of limited value in general practice and make little economic sense . |
| 7 | Jamal al-Afghani had travelled widely encouraging religious reform and ideas of liberal constitutionalism , which even had a brief effect on Khedive Tewfik . |
| 8 | Businesses , such as property investment companies , which may make wholly exempt supplies , can not reclaim any input VAT . |
| 9 | THE BRITISH government has decided to pull the plug on a European investigation into what happens when a pressurised-water reactor goes badly wrong . |
| 10 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 11 | Certainly there are similarities : he is one of a group of city businessmen confronting their mid-life crisis by plunging into a macho holiday endeavour that goes badly wrong . |
| 12 | The consumer 's voice has been heard , if faintly and intermittently , usually when something goes badly wrong , for example in the medical or social work fields . |
| 13 | When a campaign goes badly wrong , it is invariably the poor bloody infantry that gets the blame , while the leaders remain sublimely unaffected . |
| 14 | Its fantastic white sands and clear seas of deepest sapphire attract regular visitors , yet this region 's beaches remain remarkably uncrowded most of the time . |
| 15 | whilst there remain widely varying explanations of the reasons for the disturbances of 1981 , 1983 and 1985 , there can be no doubt that the fear of social disorder , and its association with the needs and demands of black people , has been a major factor in sustaining central government interest in inner cities policy . |
| 16 | And , unfortunately , the situation is likely to remain rather explosive and uncertain until the full Moon in Libra on 10 April brings to light all the information you require to force a showdown . |
| 17 | We expect the underlying pricing structure to remain rather similar when the electricity industry is privatized , but closely regulated , in the early 1990s . ) |
| 18 | The weather , the rest of today 's likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 19 | The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 20 | The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 21 | The weather , the rest of today is likely to remain rather cloudy with a chance of more rain at any time . |
| 22 | Mrs Orton told Stephanie how in her day they made right big puffed-up brown Yorkshires and served them separate , with the gravy poured in , before the meat , to spin it out , you had to scrape and pinch in them days . |
| 23 | As I became professionally involved in trying to understand what , if anything , was happening I realised that here was a rare opportunity for the public to experience science in action , feel the excitement that drives inquisitive minds , and see how discoveries are made , tested , replicated , proven and developed into a new technology . |
| 24 | For all its fine engineering and good design , the Audi 90 20v quattro offers rather less than meets the eye . |
| 25 | The women migrants within countries became overwhelmingly domestic servants , until they married some fellow-countryman , or passed into some other urban occupation . |
| 26 | Partly because of the earlier bitterness of the battle over comprehensive reorganization , more because in the new artificially contrived areas ( such as ‘ Humberside ’ , ‘ Avon ’ , ‘ Kirklees ’ , and ‘ Thamesdown ’ ) there was no tradition and no sense of local needs , political alignments became overwhelmingly important . |
| 27 | Suddenly then Fabia became overwhelmingly conscious of her thin cotton robe , her scrubbed face with her hair , brushed out of its knot , now floating around her — and it all at once seemed more urgent that she return to her room with all speed . |
| 28 | Using mostly commercial housepaint , his work is process-generated and involves pouring and intervention . |
| 29 | The reasoning , however , is that problem determination is not a ‘ core competency ’ and so IBM is happy to relinquish its responsibility and concentrate on further CICS development . |
| 30 | To identify a new chairperson for the board , or to derive full value from bringing on those trustees , five years is too short . |