Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 Now , still clutching the slices of unyielding satin to her , Nicandra wondered how it was possible to acknowledge fitly the immediate and selfless gallantry she had seen .
2 Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come .
3 Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately .
4 I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way .
5 Without this redshift/distance relation , it would be possible to estimate reliably the distance to most of the galaxies we observe .
6 In this way , it is possible to estimate how the chemical stability of a sound recording will fare with time .
7 They allow the economically strong to drive out the economically weak , and so generate monopoly power which robs workers and consumers of any effective economic control .
8 On the word ‘ go ’ , everyone runs round the room trying to burst as many balloons as possible using only the newspapers .
9 There is a complete lack of understanding , and that goes right the way through the Health Service …
10 Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners .
11 For this reason , it is not always possible to carry out the preferred size or type of investigation until certain data or resources become available .
12 Difficult to move , hideous to breathe in the shuttered carriage .
13 That hungers down the blood-smell even to a leak of its own
14 The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones .
15 In that work it is possible to see clearly the relation between his insistence on totality and the Romantic aesthetic of totality as the inner necessity that moulds all works of art .
16 On a clear day it is possible to see both the English and Bristol Channels ; the distant Quantocks and Mendips frame the Somerset Levels , with Glastonbury Tor rising mysteriously out of the mists .
17 Because we do not have the legs preserved , it is not possible to see how the mouth appendages functioned in feeding , and neither are the stomach contents preserved .
18 We were due to try out the show at Farnham , a 400-seater theatre , less than an hour from London .
19 That beats even the £1,784 a week paid last year for unemployed interior designer Peter Julien 's house in Hampstead , London .
20 Certain cases dominate the coverage in the national press , and by using these cases it is possible to indicate how the images of sex beast are constantly being preferred to readers .
21 When the index is computerised it will be practicable to increase greatly the number of names on the index .
22 That illustrates nicely the interaction of practical and psychological guidance which characterises the best of apprenticeships .
23 That illustrates graphically the fact that in 1980 we had fewer pedestrian deaths than West Germany and now we have more .
24 Therefore the area of the rectangle shown at the bottom of the last page is equal to base x height and the area of the triangle is unc We can now see that to work out the area of any triangle we simply need to remember are unc
25 The most appropriate technology for many people will be one that helps a country to organise a postal system so that stamps are available , to bring radio within everyone 's reach and that holds out the possibility of early telephone links .
26 A business relies on a driving personality taking it forward , and the confusion about getting somebody on board who is working with you in the business and who is putting money board , is that they feel to some extent , proprietorial to that business , and you can find that that will result in those individuals who have done that tearing apart the business because they are trying to go in different directions .
27 As Pahl ( 1988 ) points out , it is not possible to accept uncritically the idea that an underclass has emerged in British society .
28 Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life .
29 She believes some people will vote Labour to shake up the Conservatives and make them reconsider their policies .
30 It is possible to work out the length required for a garment by measuring the length used for a tension square and calculating the total area of the garment from the diagram but I think you would need to be addicted to mathematics to find this worthwhile .
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