Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the other Pyrenean divisions , Béarn is medieval ; this was once the largest of the furiously independent mountain states , a viscounty which came into existence as early as 820 , was at different moments of its history the vassal of Aragon and England , became joined by marriage with the powerful viscounty of Foix and with Basse-Navarre , and finally , when Henri IV , ‘ le grand Béarnais ’ , became king of the whole of France in 1589 , was integrated with the Crown . |
| 2 | If programmes aiming to pick up directly beamed contact' messages from other worlds are starved of funding , what possibility is there of anyone picking up the incredibly faint traces of extraterrestrial radio leakage ? |
| 3 | Why nothing less than the incredibly savage and dangerous piranha . |
| 4 | Out of the window , Daisy admired the incredibly tidy garden . |
| 5 | The debate is about what sort of magnetic container to build to hold together the incredibly hot gas ( plasma ) in which fusion can take place . |
| 6 | Dated 1656 and painted by the artist at twenty-five years of age , it depicts the ship ‘ De Esperanca ’ , which was rented by the Amsterdam Chamber of the East India Company to escort home the incredibly rich return fleet of Pieter de Bitter and other merchantmen which had sought refuge from the English in the port of Bergen , Norway . |
| 7 | Another aspect of the incredibly resilient romantic tradition is re-examined by the young artist Richard Kenton Webb , whose latest work is at the Benjamin Rhodes Gallery , 4 New Burlington Place , London W1 ( until April 25 ) . |
| 8 | The stones were large , being the incredibly rare blue milk diamonds from the clay basins of Mithos . |
| 9 | For me this means making the incredibly potent High Elf archers the backbone of the army . |
| 10 | Firstly , he has been involved with the team as a test driver for the last two years ' development of the incredibly successful active-ride suspension system which powered Mansell to the world title . |
| 11 | Sky have splashed £304 million over five years for Premier League football , but the evidence shows the incredibly low viewing figure of less than 400,000 . |
| 12 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 13 | In a land where , with a little water , anything would grow , and private gardens were a blaze of bougainvillaea and oleander , Cairo 's public gardens remained bits of desert , and the only colour in the Ezbekiya was provided once a week by the uniforms of the incredibly incompetent Egyptian regimental band . |
| 14 | I thought I 'd better have a word with you about the incredibly clever trick-ending . |
| 15 | Quite unable to stop herself , she too reached out to stroke the satin-softness of his skin , her eyes darkening as she saw the many bruises that came from trying to control the incredibly fast cars that flew so low and hard round the Grand Prix circuits . |
| 16 | After a disastrous fire the new church was begun by Justinian in 532 and was built in the incredibly short time of six years , though the interior decoration was completed after this . |
| 17 | That said , they were presented with some fairly easy targets , not least from the incredibly untidy lineout ball that the Welsh jumpers were offering poor Robert Jones before it eventually dried up altogether . |
| 18 | Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing — and drawing the figure especially . |
| 19 | To anyone else , the incredibly exciting three-level building is , er … well , a place where you park your car . |
| 20 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 21 | Last week the society took the incredibly high-handed decision to refuse a cheque for £50,000 because it came from the profits of the famous Dianagate tapes . |
| 22 | Bondi had the affront to list past observational mistakes by some of the society 's members and , what is more , had the incredibly bad taste to prove his case beyond question , an unforgivable lapse , and one not to be lightly taken . |
| 23 | You did n't even wax lyrical about the incredibly romantic island we could see from the cliff-top at the cape . |
| 24 | Take into account the incredibly high standards of service in the excellent hotels and you have every possible ingredient for the ultimate holiday experience . |
| 25 | Then , set against the incredibly complicated French and Indian Wars , the actual story has Hawkeye falling in with the Brits as he falls for the daughter ( Stowe ) of a Scots officer . |
| 26 | The intimately invading pressure of another body against one 's own , from neck down to knees ! |
| 27 | Er within the model , there is the provision to er not take the date which is issued with the model , but to allow for local correction factors and it er maybe that we 've got the locally correct death statistics in and our colleagues have n't got the local corrections . |
| 28 | The locally stable strategy in any particular part of the trench lines was not necessarily Tit for Tat itself . |
| 29 | Smith had a wide circle of friends who included the members of the locally influential Brigg family , Sir Isaac Holden , first MP for Keighley , John Bright , whose free-trade views he shared unreservedly , John Morley ( Viscount Morley of Blackburn ) , Sir Henry Roscoe , and , not least , Andrew Carnegie [ qq.v. ] , whom he considered the most remarkable man that he had ever met . |
| 30 | The successful candidate had been imposed by the Labour Party nationally after it had refused to place on the selection short-list the locally preferred nominee , Ken Capstick , who was a close associate of Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers . |