Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ryarsh also makes non-standard special shapes , although it is most economic to select from the extensive range of standard specials . |
| 2 | From 1275 , with the exception of a certain number of years , usually two parliaments met annually , even three in 1278 ; altogether fifty assembled during the thirty-five years of the reign . |
| 3 | Whether such a steady state is locally stable depends on the assumptions made concerning expectations . |
| 4 | So are you saying then effectively that looking towards the post two thousand and six scenario , and bearing in mind that that review will not be let , will , is likely to take place at the most within the next five years ? |
| 5 | There was remarkably little to do in the hospital if you did n't want to read Agatha Christie or knit half-mile scarves . |
| 6 | After four years at sea and now without compass and sextant , apparently the main attributes of its navigational aids , the old tub and crew are in need of a refit and the new establishment would be most foolish to embark upon the same kind of voyage.J I HOWARD , Glendale , Upper Street , Witnesham . |
| 7 | Well if we 're going to start to go into funding , I 'd rather this went into the pink paper session , and that we have our Chief Executives down here to explain that situation . |
| 8 | This match had all the ingredients which still make the British game the most exciting to watch in the world — speed , commitment and flair . |
| 9 | Clearly , it is most unpleasant to sit on the beach surrounded by dog excrement , and of course , above the high tide mark , it will remain here without being washed away by the sea . |
| 10 | Eventually this deepened below the random of Fleming 's Level and rendered the pumping and winding sump at the intersection obsolete . |
| 11 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 12 | In this case the message sent on the SWIFT system from the US bank to the UK bank is that your ( NOSTRO ) account has been credited by us with $10 000 , in return pass on this amount to the named beneficiary , the UK exporter . |
| 13 | The situation was vastly different compared with the high-inflation 1970s . |
| 14 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to hear about the royal situation , but it is a personal matter , ’ she added . |
| 15 | I am naturally extremely sorry to hear of the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman very properly brings to the attention of the House , but he will not expect me to prejudge any issue of criminality that may arise . |
| 16 | These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously . |
| 17 | For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites . |
| 18 | That kind of situation , Dr is entirely right to say to the general assembly , that kind of situation is utterly unforgivable , it 's utterly unforgivable . |
| 19 | If a given investment project within the domain of operation of capitalist enterprises were considered desirable as part of an investment plan ( to satisfy a definite ‘ social need ’ , to gain export revenue , to develop a ‘ growth industry ’ , to preserve employment ) and yet the capitalist enterprises concerned were unwilling to invest then the investment planning authorities would have two broad options : either nationalise the enterprises and force them to invest on criteria other than those of profitability , or ‘ distort ’ the market to render the project sufficiently profitable to appeal to the enterprises . |
| 20 | Writing as a Marxist influenced by the philosopher Louis Althusser , Castells argued that urban sociology , especially that developed by the Chicago School , was ‘ ideological ’ By this he meant that urban sociologists had never stopped to ask what was actually theoretically significant about cities and city life . |
| 21 | It also includes information on mineral exploration in some areas , especially that derived from the activities of the MRP or MEG projects . |
| 22 | The most amusing commentary on the limitations which are inherent in this type of research , however , is perhaps that enshrined in the Indonesian concept of a ‘ statistical Muslim ’ ( or Islam statistique ) , a person who , while not actively practising the faith , so records his identity for census and other purposes . |
| 23 | Maggie had so little to do during the day that she spent much of the time chatting and gossiping with Rose . |
| 24 | When you 're superhuman , so little seems worth the bother . |
| 25 | And so Labour went into the election on a fudged policy designed more to placate Roy Hattersley than to win over voters . |
| 26 | It is only confusing to shift from the intellectual argument to how Freud and others acted . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : Nothing could be called so that belongs to the Countess of Pembroke . |
| 28 | Trespass was obviously unsuitable to deal with the case where the owner had voluntarily put his goods into another 's possession and the other refused to re-deliver them , but this situation was covered by the remedy of detinue . |
| 29 | In ‘ Grey Shadows ’ the areas of grey are sufficiently solid to balance with the strong blues and yellows , but the sense of landscape remains . |
| 30 | Of course , making an unauthorized copy of an Esperanto– English dictionary would infringe copyright , if only that subsisting in the typographical arrangement . |