Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based in Whale Beach in Sydney , he has featured in ( Australian ) Penthouse and Playboy and been named among the country 's fifty most eligible bachelors . |
| 2 | Their usual professionally lugubrious expressions slipped markedly into stark astonishment , almost disbelief , hoping , no doubt , that this was not a glimpse of the future . |
| 3 | You can , for example , create exercises on only the 500 most frequent words , or those words which you have put into your ‘ Unit 15 sluice ’ or your ‘ Banking sluice ’ . |
| 4 | The argument is that while elements of culture are not directly , eternally or exclusively tied to specific economically determined factors such as class position , they are determined in the final instance by such factors , through the operation of articulating principles which are tied to class position . |
| 5 | By April 1990 unrest in the eight predominantly Kurdish provinces of south-eastern Turkey appeared to be turning into a mass nationalist uprising . |
| 6 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 7 | It is probably true to say , therefore , that most small towns , when taken with their immediate surroundings , were to some degree self-sufficient in basic agricultural produce . |
| 8 | It was observed above that most serious woundings involve the use of a weapon , and that may make it easier to establish intention . |
| 9 | So if you think about it a therapeutic group could certainly use suggestive therapy like hypnosis and my guess is that most successful groups like Alcoholics Anonymous or groups of people who wan na stop smoking or do slimming and things like that succeed for that reason , cos every member of the group reinforces every other member with a kind of group super ego and says look , you must n't smoke , you must n't drink , you must n't put on weight and it , it reinforces every individual 's erm super ego by means of identification with the shared value of the group and similarly reduces feelings of shame and guilt if the individual fails the group , cos next week when they come back they say oh dear , I 've put on five pounds , erm that they 're gon na feel bad about it because it offends against the ideal of the of the group if it 's Weight Watchers or something . |
| 10 | It was because of this , along with the commonplaces of fashionable racial theory , that most educated Russians at the beginning of the twentieth century were convinced that practically all the smaller peoples of Siberia were irrevocably doomed to extinction . |
| 11 | It is true , of course , that most Victorian parents regarded acquaintance with death as an integral part of the school of experience , much as modern parents look upon sex education . |
| 12 | Now it is generally observed that most civil servants whatever country they come from make sure that they er give each other pay rises and I know it happens in this country the Civil Service pay pays quite well and it 's certainly a key erm feature in er pay structure in developing countries that if your , if you work for the government you are very very well paid , like government wages can be , you know , four , five , six , ten , twenty times |
| 13 | It is worth stressing once more that most consequential points or passages in BT are prefigured , sometimes loosely , sometimes almost verbatim , in one or other of the preliminary versions of 1870 and the extended fragments of 1871 . |
| 14 | It is important to remember , moreover , that most eighteenth-century reformers saw freedom in largely negative terms . |
| 15 | Fatherless Shirley knew perfectly well that most British men carved , and that it was a bit of bad luck that she happened to have married into a family where the women were expected to wield the knife . |
| 16 | It was recognized more clearly than before that most large companies actually held a portfolio of businesses , and that long-term growth , or indeed survival , might depend more on managing that portfolio rather than assuming continued growth on all fronts . |
| 17 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 18 | Note too that most astronomical telescopes give an upside-down or inverted image . |
| 19 | His pastels , of which Wildenstein lists 109 mostly undated sheets , show that , even if he did not match the delicacy of Monet or the textural subtlety of Degas , Monet could , on occasions , use the medium in an exciting way . |
| 20 | Now Liessa , the most skilled of my children , can barely imagine fifty rather nondescript creatures . |
| 21 | Our eleven most varied songs , too , with a different feel to each song . ’ |
| 22 | The plan centres on the Galleria dell'Accademia , but also includes the city 's eleven most interesting churches , namely the Frari , with its Titian masterpieces , and the church and adjoining Scuola of San Rocco , which houses the most important cycle of paintings by Tintoretto . |
| 23 | Open fields without hedges or other divisions were awkwardly split up in a system known as ‘ run-rig ’ between joint small tenants living in a small village or ‘ fermetoun ’ , each annually allocated strips or ‘ rigs ’ of from a quarter to half an acre , with a rough- and ready attempt to balance the better and poorer land between the respective individuals . |
| 24 | Defence , which lost Labour so many votes in 1983 and 1987 , is especially important . |
| 25 | A recent survey by the Consumers Association ( CA ) showed that a third of the tools hired from 32 randomly selected shops were found to be faulty when examined by experts . |
| 26 | km , on average every year , but by 1980 only five hares were shot for every sq . |
| 27 | Where ground conditions are unsuitable less conventional materials such as cast iron and turf have been used . |
| 28 | He worked with reasonable diligence , getting to Wilden by eight o'clock most mornings , and also travelling a good deal — to South Wales , to Birmingham , to London and even on one occasion to the United States — on the firm 's affairs . |
| 29 | With our present-day highly developed technologies , we can re-create many of the complex molecules found in nature , but we can not create life — another argument in favour of the existence of the life force or life energy , whatever it may be . |
| 30 | I am sorry so many years passed without our having an intercourse by letters , as I am sensible how many observations I have lost which must have fallen in your way to have made . |