Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you seen a picture go on relentlessly developing until its whole surface is black , its celebratory moment obliterated ? |
| 2 | However , if given plenty of room it will eventually slowly establish and flourish . |
| 3 | News of the break-up reached some tour officials soon after the princess arrived in Whitley Bay , but she carried on staunchly chatting and laughing with everyone she met . |
| 4 | At the time of our research one of the two most widely acknowledged and apparent problems for Shetlanders was one which was formulated in public and private discussion as good agricultural land going for new ( incomers ' ) housing . |
| 5 | A sort of Liberal party Man Friday , the region 's most widely travelled and most durable candidate twice fought Darlington in 1974 , contested Middlesbrough in 1979 , Jarrow in 1987 and this time tackles Easington . |
| 6 | Apart from being one of the most widely read and influential books , it is also more enlightened than most of the published work getting through to teachers , health visitors , therapists and parents too . |
| 7 | Perhaps the most widely quoted and influential study of ‘ moral entrepreneurship ’ is Joseph Gusfield 's study of the American Temperance Movement . |
| 8 | Shakespeare is the most widely known and read of the classical playwrights and it is for this reason that a piece from one of his plays is nearly always obligatory at a drama school audition . |
| 9 | The series with Racing Club de Pan-s whetted the appetite for overseas adventures , and Arsenal soon became the most widely known and respected club in the world , a model for emerging soccer nations . |
| 10 | The Korn/Ferry name is most widely known and publicly quoted of all search firms — Lester Korn is seen as the man who brought headhunting out into the open — and thus the firm can guarantee almost instant interest from potential candidates . |
| 11 | This is perhaps one of the most widely used and cheapest of supplements in bodybuilding . |
| 12 | Yet mud remains both the most widely used and most neglected building material in the world . |
| 13 | At the same time , however , he earned massive public support for standing up to the most widely feared and despised Soviet institution . |
| 14 | Covering South America , Central America and the Caribbean , the Middle East and Africa , the International region is the most widely dispersed and varied of United Distillers ' regions . |
| 15 | Modern society , it may be argued , is not like a set of neatly intermeshing and well-oiled cogs , but rather a game in which groups of players have considerable discretion so long as they keep within a set of rules which are often themselves rather loosely defined or at least open to negotiation and change . |
| 16 | It is because values can be most effectively defined and expressed in words that the study of literature claims a central place in humane studies . |
| 17 | The most toxic residues from industrial society are rarely successfully neutralised or excreted by living organisms , and they tend to be increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they are passed up the food chain . |
| 18 | Farmers , their pride stung , can easily become aggressively unhelpful to even the most politely worded and well-reasoned appeal to curb some of the unnecessarily destructive aspects of their farming practices . |
| 19 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 20 | Do you start on A Question of Upbringing and throw it away after twelve pages ( my God this book 's abysmally badly written and boring ) ? |
| 21 | Most confusingly named as it is a stork not an ibis . |
| 22 | He was admitted to the most lavishly decorated and furnished room he had ever been in . |
| 23 | Ernst Mayr rather unkindly remarks that Jenkin 's article ‘ is based on all the usual prejudices and misunderstandings of the physical scientists ’ . |
| 24 | He attaches great importance to ‘ the association of ideas ’ and sees it as being most powerfully achieved where the punishment symbolises the offence as far as possible . |
| 25 | Grief is most powerfully eased when it can be shared . |
| 26 | This courier service could be most economically operated if both pollen and egg were placed close together on the plant . |
| 27 | Described by a recent historian of the North-east as " one of the most rigorously controlled and poorly paid of all British labour " , even in the mid nineteenth century it paid only about 3s ( 15p ) a week . |
| 28 | The severity of symptoms in inoculees was thereby much reduced and the risk of a healthy patient dying almost eliminated . |
| 29 | They suggest , by implication at the very least , that modern society is characterised by greater promiscuity , greater sexual licence , by altogether less controlled or constrained sexual behaviour . |
| 30 | Such gains were effectively only taxed as and when a UK resident enjoyed a benefit ; hence arose the opportunity for a gross roll-up of gains , followed by the eventual distribution of all gains to a beneficiary on a tax holiday . |