Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Kennedy 's talent won over the hard-to-please punters despite him being one of the scruffiest acts ever to face the Royal box . |
| 2 | I think one of my difficulties with Adam Bede is that she begins to lose interest a little bit in the figure of the beautiful , but not actually very bright , village girl , whose seduction is an important part of the story , and by the end of the book we feel that she 's actually bored with Hettie , is n't really concerned any longer to explore Hettie 's own sufferings as the other woman who has been badly treated by the rascally gentleman . |
| 3 | General Hawley had only reached Edinburgh on 6 January , and having built up his strength , wrote optimistically of ‘ driving the rascally scum out of Stirling ’ . |
| 4 | Led by Dimas Tigrillo ( " Wildcat " ) , the re-contras had on June 13 forcibly occupied the town of San José Bocay , 250 km north of Managua , to publicize their demands , among which were the restructuring and integration of contras into the predominantly Sandinista police force in the north , and the removal of Humberto Ortega from his post . |
| 5 | After reports that police reservists in the predominantly Serb town of Benkovac had been disarmed , by order of their Croat superiors , Serbs took to the streets there and in nearby towns . |
| 6 | From about 9 000 to 7 000 years ago there was a gradual improvement of climate , the predominantly birch forest of the previous period being replaced by pine forest and then by mixed oak forest . |
| 7 | The spectra of show a very pronounced intensification of the bands due to ionization from the predominantly metal-d orbitals of t 2g symmetry at photon energies that appear to correspond to absorptions in the high energy electronic spectra [ 16 ] . |
| 8 | The roundup was centred on the predominantly Shia Moslem Bnaid al-Gar district and communist and fundamentalist Shia opposition figures were particularly targeted . |
| 9 | Two separate major rebellions were centred in the predominantly Shia southern provinces of Iraq and in the Kurdish northern provinces . |
| 10 | The composition of the Sunni-dominated IJC had been broadened on June 18 when the predominantly Shia Moslem Wahdat-i-Islami , a coalition of eight Iranian-backed parties previously excluded from power , was given eight seats and control of three government ministries , including that of National Security . |
| 11 | The lack of social contact between the predominantly local working class and the predominantly newcomer middle class can be particularly marked . |
| 12 | The relocations were to begin on July 21 with the return of Maronite Christians to more than 80 villages in the predominantly Druze Chouf mountains and the area east of Sidon . |
| 13 | The old man stopped in surprise and then craned forward , squinting in the dim light coming through the grimly fanlight . |
| 14 | Afterwards a rickshaw driver hauls him off to the City of Joy , a vast area of slums where the matronly Joan Bethel ( Pauline Collins ) runs a school . |
| 15 | Labour and Delivery was quiet tonight , and so was Recovery , to which they were directed by the matronly grandmother of five who presided over the ward . |
| 16 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 17 | At Notting Hill , Carnival was rained on but still managed to struggle past the 7pm curfew in parts , though sensible southerners spent Monday in the marquee at the Full Circle all-dayer . |
| 18 | The driver of the 10pm LMS passenger and mail train seemingly overran a home signal at danger and plunged into the rear of the 9.15pm Oxley sidings to Bristol GWR fitted goods before finally colliding with another freight , the 4.45 Westerleigh to Gloucester empties , that was passing on the opposite line . |
| 19 | Its use does not preclude the side-by-side use of specific MAS checklists or work programmes but the SEPR must be regarded and treated as the lead control record . |
| 20 | The fit-again TV funnyman joined a host of big names for a panto season launch in London . |
| 21 | The 28-year-old graduate from Bristol University was fined at the end of last season for failing to turn up for the team coach travelling to the FA Cup final after discovering he had been dropped in favour of the fit-again Bruce Grobbelaar . |
| 22 | Similar emphasis on the Security Council 's authority was advocated by the Soviet Union , whose government also proposed reactivation of the effectively moribund UN Security Council Military Staff Committee to take control of any enforcement action . |
| 23 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 24 | ‘ The fro s t p erforms i ts sec r et ministry . ’ |
| 25 | The horsefly larvae use their two large jaws to capture the tiny toad and pull it down into the mud where they feed on its body fluids . |
| 26 | Even if they escape the attentions of the horsefly larvae , the young toads are still not safe . |
| 27 | Even the SIB itself appears to be having self-doubts about the unwieldly monster it has created , particularly at a time when the City 's self-regulation will have to be grafted on a more legalistic European Community framework . |
| 28 | Also we could n't understand why , since there were only three trains a day each way , and only the 11.50am arrival and the 4.05pm departure were ever heavy trains . |
| 29 | After the War General Student who had commanded German airborne forces congratulated Lord Mountbatten on the raid as the ‘ best example of the use of airborne forces with other forces ’ , and Lord Mountbatten considers this raid ‘ the most 100% perfection of any raid I know ’ . |
| 30 | Far from encouraging a re-examination of Soviet stakes in the area , a full rendering of costs ( and , most important , alternatives ) is likely to confirm them : if , as one expert has calculated , the ‘ cost of the Soviet Empire ’ amounts to some 14 per cent of Soviet defence expenditure , it could be the most cost effective component of the Soviet defence effort . |