Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Norman Cowans , Ricky Ellcock and Angus Fraser all been healthy , the script would surely have taken its expected course ; as it is , the Middlesex seam attack deserves that ‘ pop-gun ’ tag rather more than its national counterpart . |
| 2 | He admitted that this was the first time he had really looked at the stoma and that he found the appearance and the smell rather offensive . |
| 3 | ( In contrast most European authorities — including the UK — insist on lead management occurring in their own market . ) |
| 4 | He was an ex-barrister , a very live wire , who could justly claim to be the founder of the present vastly expanded business . |
| 5 | Each node contains one letter rather than one word , thus allowing for the study of sub-word letter sequences , but to make the searching algorithm most efficient , all 26 routes from every node in the tree must be allowed for , and on average most of these are wasted . |
| 6 | The rich tend to buy the services of doctors and the poor purchase mostly unprescribed medicines from pharmacists . |
| 7 | In particular , the speed of cutting from one scene to another has accelerated considerably , so that commercials from the late fifties or early sixties now look incredibly slow . |
| 8 | At the same time he checks the mouth for any other problems that may have evolved since his previous visit and , because every month is different , he can give valuable advice to the horse owner on the shape of the mouth and type of bit most suitable for the individual horse . |
| 9 | If this is your first experience in the role of main helper to someone close to you who has suffered a major loss , and if you have not yet suffered one yourself , you may find the strange variety and intensity of her emotions and her need for long-term support rather daunting . |
| 10 | If the decisions were being made by a planning inquiry and we were the planning inspectors , would we give permission for the spending of someone else 's money on such as project ? |
| 11 | Her response to nature had a subtlety beyond the range either of her brother or of Coleridge , and indeed was a response altogether different from theirs . |
| 12 | Instead of being a development of an inherent or generally available faculty , it is a specialized technique wholly dependent on specific training . |
| 13 | As there was no suitable textbook , he and another schoolmaster in Rugby decided to write not one , but two , and he also wrote The Mathematics of Physics for Biologists , who often find the mathematical aspects of Physics rather difficult . |
| 14 | Although , on the face of it , this might not appear to have been conducive to the development of industry-wide bargaining paradoxically such ‘ division by occupation promoted bargaining by industry ’ ( Phelps Brown , 1959 , p. 362 ) . |
| 15 | Flamenco at its most heart stoppingly authentic ’ The Guardian Dancers and musicians with all the romance , power , heat and rhythm of Spain . |
| 16 | There are large variations in the inter- and intra-national rates for this operation , which can not be explained adequately by differences in morbidity , and there is at present little professional consensus on the appropriate indications for hysterectomy . |
| 17 | The overall effect of the system therefore , it could be argued , was to produce a rather impotent self-evaluation which took few risks followed by a local inspection little different from that of any other LEA . |
| 18 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 19 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 20 | That is a tenable argument as is the belief that in any case little that is practical can be done without help from outside agencies . |
| 21 | With a few exceptions , sixteenth-century towns were in any case little more than glorified military and administrative headquarters , supplied by a small population of artisans and petty traders . |
| 22 | Visibility mostly good . |
| 23 | The assumption is offensive to teachers ; it encourages professional dependency ; it discourages professional autonomy and self-motivated development ; and it is in any case empirically unsustainable . |
| 24 | Finally , and this returns us to Kumar 's statements , it is unlikely that with the elimination of the scarcity of resources — and this made cultural direction incredibly simple — and the internationalization of media productions a nation can ever maintain its defensive walls unbreached . |
| 25 | I am in any case rather intrigued by the project ! |
| 26 | On the DEC PDP-10 computer most fixed point binary and logical operations ( such as And and Add ) have four modes , as shown in Figure 3.7 . |
| 27 | It is perhaps not surprising that choreographers use the classical style fur most abstract ballets . |
| 28 | Although lateral eye movements appear at first sight to offer a simple and straightforward way of assessing which hemisphere is active at a given Instant , the evidence relating eye movements to hemisphere function is at present rather insubstantial . |
| 29 | The Cobham model is significant to church planters in that some of those involved in leadership believe they have already gone through certain different models for church planting before reaching their present most favoured version . |
| 30 | It is the speed and the extra space that make the Squirrel commercially attractive . |