Example sentences of "[verb] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two aspects that distinguish the fully optimal dynamic strategy from this inferior myopic strategy : ( i ) the use of a reservation sales strategy ; and ( ii ) the use of a declining output strategy and ( associatedly ) the use of a declining reservation price on the reservation sales strategy . |
| 2 | As a young deb visiting her brother at Oxford , she first met the rather moody , womanising Baron Michael de Stempel . |
| 3 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 4 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 5 | In this day room we again met the most interesting folk . |
| 6 | I met the most determined teenage resistance ever . |
| 7 | Here he met the most notable trade unionists of the area , some of them with national reputations . |
| 8 | In Chapter 5 we met the more sophisticated idea of the evolutionarily stable set of genes . |
| 9 | Although the Bois became notorious as the place where the respectable of society met the less respectable , it was nevertheless , in some sense , an extension of the Court itself , for the carriage outings of the Emperor and the Empress formed part of the spectacle : |
| 10 | As such a concentration upon ‘ women as carers ’ neglects the very important contribution of male carers ( Arber and Gilbert 1989 ) . |
| 11 | In all three cases there has been a marked increase in the proportion who favour the more liberal status quo . |
| 12 | Similarly , " this personage " , a mock dignified label for Pemberton himself perhaps fits the rather forbidding image he presents to the child , as well as reflecting sadly on Pemberton 's own lack of dignity in the situation in which he finds himself . |
| 13 | Dr. Elliott detects in it ‘ a desire by the composer to accommodate progressive ideas about clear word-setting and harmonic , chordal idioms ’ : he has elsewhere invoked the violent and repressive political climate of the time , and seen an attempt by Carver to compromise — in a period of Protestant fundamentalism which had limited the formerly sumptuous musical presentations in the Chapel Royal to plainchant and Faburden improvised upon it — with the strictly harmonically-conceived music of English Reformation composers . |
| 14 | In 1939 , after several years of study , the Conservative government attempted to reorganize the rather inefficient operation of the two airlines and to encourage more competition . |
| 15 | Electrode pullers may be either electromagnetically or gravity-operated and are commercially available from a number of suppliers , Minor modification may be necessary in order to fit tubing of 1.0 mm diameter because most pullers are designed to accommodate the slightly larger , standard microelectrode capillary tubing . |
| 16 | The Course also goes a long way to accommodate the not uncommon student experience of making a mistaken choice of degree subject . |
| 17 | You will need to adjust the tension dial to accommodate the rather thicker yarn you are using . |
| 18 | Such preaching , far from deterring the people , attracted them in such large numbers that the parish church of St.Mary and All Saints , which held about 1,000 , was filled beyond its capacity so that five galleries had to be erected to accommodate the greatly enlarged congregation . |
| 19 | It is rare for a house of this size and date to remain thatched , for so often the roof pitch would be changed to accommodate the more convenient slates or tiles . |
| 20 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 21 | The emphasis on helping the visually handicapped pupil to develop skills to cope with his school environment , rather than adapting the environment significantly to accommodate the visually handicapped child , may , however , be usefully tempered by an understanding of the way in which the developmental and experiential levels of the child can be affected by his school life . |
| 22 | Large firms pursuing the most sophisticated levels of managerially-directed computer-control of production processes will confine traditional metal working skills to marginal remedial tasks . |
| 23 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 24 | Longer-term trading considerations may be far from the Chancellor 's mind as he tackles the more urgent problems of balancing the books by squeezing maximum contributions from energy supply , but a quick tax fix is no substitute for a well-defined investment strategy to ensure the best balance is struck between available supply and demand . |
| 25 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 26 | As a subject , travel photography was immensely popular from the beginning , if you could n't do it yourself , you could always buy a print or two which depicted the more interesting scenic points of your journey . |
| 27 | Shooters will be less pleased , since the idea of a ‘ weapon passport ’ allowing the reasonably easy transportation of legal weapons will not be accepted in Great Britain . |
| 28 | Both the sheep and the cows , after drying off in early June , went to the high mountain meadows during the summer , allowing the more accessible grass around the farm to be conserved either as hay or silage . |
| 29 | Here near to Foxton are examples of all sorts of things that excite the blood of the canal enthusiast : a delightful cut through the centre of the village taking the boatman to the once prosperous wharves and building yards of Market Harborough ; a wonderful hand-operated swingbridge allowing the more adventurous visitors to negotiate Swingbridge Lane on their own ; visible and tangible memories of boatmen 's inns . |
| 30 | You cook the moules as for marinière : moules marinières is prepared by scrubbing the mussels , rejecting any that do not close when knocked against the sink , whilst allowing the finely chopped onion and garlic to thoroughly soften in the wine in a large pan for which you have a close-fitting lid . |