Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are duly grateful to Joseph Kosuth for keeping the ball rolling while not rocking the boat . |
| 2 | ‘ I am most grateful to Hope Ward for sparing you , Nurse Dungarvan . |
| 3 | It appears that the mosaic of room LI of the " abaton " — and presumably that of room L — could be earlier than this ( Britannia XII ( 1981 ) , 357 ; Britannia KIll ( 1982 ) , 380 ) . |
| 4 | So is Tye 's and presumably that of John Sheppard , a turbulent and eccentric figure too little of whose music has been printed . |
| 5 | I felt rather sorry for piers Gaveston . ’ |
| 6 | In particular , the ratio is rather lower in Northern Ireland ( 14.5 to 1 ) and especially in Scotland ( 13.0 to 1 ) ( CSO , 1989a , Table 9.1 . |
| 7 | That has now been reduced to 15 and the problem is at its most acute in East Swindon . |
| 8 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 9 | We arrived rather exhausted at Peking airport , but were immediately met enthusiastically by a rather formidable delegation of ministry of education officials , people from this or that Revolutionary committee , and members of the Peking Language Institute . |
| 10 | The premier 's talk of working with councils rings rather hollow in Mr Cawley 's ears : ‘ My idea of a partnership is that it 's a two-way thing , with give and take . |
| 11 | Hezbollah ( Party of God ) elections in Tehran ( the capital of Iran ) in January 1990 produced a new leadership which excluded the party 's " pro-Syrian " wing and was almost wholly supportive of Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi , the hardline former Interior Minister and Hezbollah 's principal Iranian patron . |
| 12 | Most are woven on woollen warps and wefts ( p.20 ) — not the most stable of foundation materials — and consequently tend to lose their shape . |
| 13 | The results show an initial period of maintained growth and then an oscillatory decline , presumably due to water stress . |
| 14 | And as a not-particularly-modest Squidgey told her friend in that most revealing of telephone calls , you have to have been to Hell and back yourself to know how to behave nicely with the dying . |
| 15 | More than 1 million ha are currently classified as severely saline and are mostly unsuitable for crop production because of either highly saline water in the root zone or the presence of salt crusts on the soil . |
| 16 | As access to the gall bladder is rarely possible after gall stone clearance , it seemed that , until recently , they could not be studied in patients with complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 17 | The platform , which had become rather glazed during Mrs de Crespigny 's harangue , came to life . |
| 18 | It is one of the most prestigious of Northern Ireland 's theatres and is a focus of artistic activity in the North-West of the province , serving both the University and the wider community . |
| 19 | It is one of the most prestigious of Northern Ireland 's theatres and is a focus of artistic activity in the North-West of the province , serving both the University and the wider community . |
| 20 | The two most common rootstocks used nowadays are known as ‘ Quince A ’ and ‘ Quince C ’ , the latter being the more dwarfing stock , but ‘ Quince A ’ bring the most used by fruit growers . |
| 21 | UP AND down the country , in the backwaters of telephone directories and local papers and whatnot , to stars are leading secret lives which on the most eagle-eyed of NME readers can spot . |
| 22 | And the Chesterfield , which stood , as Don had last seen it , in the middle of the room , waiting to go somewhere , was now plumply buttoned in the most florid of Sanderson prints . |
| 23 | He made it , too , taking over against Pakistan in 1982 for one match when Willis was injured — and , given the most toothless of bowling attacks , losing heavily . |
| 24 | ‘ It may seem a little odd for prison staff to be looking at their prisoners as customers , but they are the direct consumers of our service , ’ explained Mr Stephen Twinn , prison director , who spent 23 years in the public sector at various grades of prison governor . |
| 25 | Keenly interested in school education , Thomson was a strong believer in the species of grammar school which he himself had attended . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , Piaget 's accounts of these studies are rather lacking in frequency data so the extent to which the children psychologized is not clear . |
| 27 | Weill devotees will be most interested by Carole Farley 's inclusion of a song from the projected Huckleberry Finn that Weill was working on when he died , and two very early songs . |
| 28 | I was most interested in Mark Blythe 's article on racing up towers and high buildings around the world . |
| 29 | Like the oceans in general , healthy reefs seem remarkably free of plant life . |
| 30 | This pattern was apparent for all four solicitors , but it was most marked for solicitor B ( the suburban practitioner ) and least marked for A ( the central metropolitan solo practitioner ) and D ( the practitioner in the large provincial firm ) . |