Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went on : The worst happened when British-Indian forces took over Rangoon on 3 May . |
| 2 | Time and again a landowner , the man who actually has the most to lose since it is his land , is willing to donate corners of his fields for ponds or tree planting , as his contribution to the environmental compromise of a land-drainage scheme ; but then a letter from his agent arrives , demanding that these corners be heavily compensated or even bought by the water authority , as payment for the concessions made . |
| 3 | ‘ I got the most stick when Clinton was defending himself against allegations of an affair . |
| 4 | It is an abstract art , which we none the less consume as readers rather than as connoisseurs of pure form . |
| 5 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 6 | The words ‘ I ask you , son , to care for the lands which will come to you with your usual diligence and look after them so that they may come to your sons ’ , although they do not sufficiently express a trust but advice rather than obligation to leave the lands , are none the less regarded as having the force of a trust in favour of the grandsons after the death of their father . |
| 7 | In 1697 Peter I sent groups of Russian nobles to Venice , the Dutch republic and England , essentially to study seamanship ; but though their training was intended to be purely technical they none the less provided when they returned home a nucleus of mainly young men with experience of foreign countries and a grasp of foreign languages . |
| 8 | The stores and building sectors were among the hardest hit as traders anticipated a continuing squeeze in the high street and on house prices . |
| 9 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 10 | Thus Hilton says : But he is aware of the extremely close if not absolutely inseparable connection between the two modes of knowing , for : This shadow is cast by the body of Christ through the light of God . |
| 11 | Discomfort glare , experienced by the normally sighted when looking at something in bright light , causes no special difficulties . |
| 12 | If you have the misfortune to be wrongly suspected of an offence , the grim reality is that employment law contains fewer safeguards for the incorrectly accused than does criminal law . |
| 13 | Hazel and Blackberry turned and scuttled up the nearest run as though he had been a ferret . |
| 14 | ( It was Lawrence who ‘ blew my cover , ’ he said , on finding that Leonard was failing to attend Law School lectures , which was all the more concerning as he had no scholarship to go there , only his family 's financial backing . ) |
| 15 | She was tremendously impressed by a casual comparison which he drew between the victorious hero of the film and Corneille 's Le Cid , and all the more impressed because Le Cid was one of her set texts for A Level , whereas he was taking physics , chemistry and mathematics . |
| 16 | She knew that this trouble with her daughter would be all the more enjoyed because it was a reflection on herself . |
| 17 | Because of these complexities , friendships with the Willses tend to be built up step by step and to become all the more valued because their qualities are seldom revealed all at one time . |
| 18 | Are they to be sharply accented upwards with a hold on the downwards accent as they are in Ashton 's version of the Act III pas de quatre in Swan Lake ? |
| 19 | Most will be educated in special schools for the severely handicapped where their academic achievements will be limited but capable of development . |
| 20 | Madame behind the counter was not in the least fazed when he said he wanted to call England . |
| 21 | Nobody appeared to show the least surprise when Charles appeared in Service Dress after his servant had arranged a room at the farm for the change and a hot water wash after a little light work on the trench system , trenches that bore every resemblance to those he had seen and read about as constructed in the First War . |
| 22 | If we take from ( 1 ) the phrase distant cousin , we can remark that it is closely analogous to another phrase — near relative — in which it is quite plain that the adjective is not assigned to the referential locus of the following word , but qualifies the property which it expresses in just the way that the same word does in : ( 5 ) a near impossible task The facts of intensional qualification are not in the least altered because traditional grammar has customarily described near as an adverb in phrases like ( 5 ) , but as an adjective in near relative . |
| 23 | But for the moment his comments revealed that there was no longer the least doubt as to which of the contending voices on the Reichsrundfunk had acquired the title and character of Lord Haw-Haw . |
| 24 | According to his memoirs de Gaulle willingly envisaged that hostilities would commence in Indochina : ‘ French blood shed on Indo-Chinese soil would give us an important voice … since I did not harbour the least doubt as to Japan 's ultimate aggression , I desired that our troops should fight , no matter how desperate their situation . ’ |
| 25 | When he read from Mr Thackeray 's Book of Snobs , choosing the ‘ Great City Snob ’ as his text , imitating the while Sir Thomas 's mannerism of impatiently snapping his fingers and clasping his lapel , followed by his grave walk , hands behind back , no one had had the least doubt as to whom was meant . |
| 26 | This does not in the least matter when looking at birds or distant ships , but it is not helpful when observing a planet or a star , when it is important to collect as much light as possible . |
| 27 | Efforts to counter local air pollution problems in Los Angeles appear to be working , with low-level ozone densities in 1991 the lowest reported since records began in 1976 . |
| 28 | Dulé stalked the ladder again , and circled it , turning it with him as he paced ; again he bowed to his adversary , again he placed a foot on the lowest rung as it stood up held light by his right hand . |
| 29 | Compare the teeth-together hiss as you say ‘ The Mi ssiss ippi flow s s wiftly to the s ea ’ to the lower-lip-to-top-teeth of ‘ The mu ff ins f ell onto the f loor ’ and to ‘ Judi th 's th ird bir th day is on Th ursday . ’ |
| 30 | All these behavioural skills fall into the easier said than done category but they are all learnable techniques that can be mastered with practice . |