Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an exaggeration , but you should remember that the older the history book ( especially over 20 years ) the less reliable it can be considered to be , because ( i ) new evidence is always being unearthed ( ii ) all historians tend to write from within the perspective of their own times ( " every generation writes its own history " ) ( iii ) most professional historians update their own interpretations according to personal preference and in the face of scholarly criticism . |
| 2 | We use the most advanced techniques to assemble our clubs , which have the best designs in the world . |
| 3 | Such misbehaviour of strata in their most classic sections leads me to have serious doubts ( in fact , positive hatred ) of the concept of the " stratotype " so much favoured by many continental workers . |
| 4 | In the 1979 and 1983 elections there were examples of locally popular candidates holding their marginal seats against the national swing . |
| 5 | These dead cortical cells form what the authors call ‘ burned-out plaques ’ made of the neurotransmitter 's degradation products . |
| 6 | The students need to take with them to the placement properly prepared work-assignments requiring them , with the assistance of hotel staff , to observe some things , to do others and to enquire about a third group . |
| 7 | Until the end of the nineteenth century , or even later , most foreign offices adapted their internal structures , for so many generations designed to meet demands which were entirely European , only slowly and reluctantly to cope with new problems which increasingly embraced the entire world . |
| 8 | His contemporaries described him as being ‘ oak-hard ’ , and in his photographs the bullet-head , the upswept moustaches and rather piglike eves remind one more of a typical Prussian Feldwebel , with all its connotations of brutal , unimaginative single-mindedness . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's got some rather unorthodox ideas mind you , but that 's all to the good when you 're young . |
| 10 | Anyone who takes on public duties sets himself up for attack , and in Rees-Mogg 's case , the succession of posts was dizzying . |
| 11 | To help you spend all those Christmas gift vouchers , TODAY has compiled a list of some of the most entertaining books to suit everyone 's taste . |
| 12 | Harriet sensing , quite rightly , that this must have something to do with a man , failed to receive any response to the most careful attempts to discover what was wrong . |
| 13 | Yet most social workers find their work intensively bound up with families . |
| 14 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 15 | The copper map had evidently been fastened to the concrete plinth through the medium of some nineteen-thirties metallurgical technology which is sadly lost to us today , because it ruggedly defied even the most enterprising attempts to prise it free and bear it off to the smelting pot . |
| 16 | ‘ Expanding Emporio is the most important aspect of my business plan for the next five years , ’ says the maestro , confidently plotting his way to a bright future as less resilient designers wring their hands or close shop . |
| 17 | Their world was petrified , and only fifty metres separated their sanctuary from the sea of red death . |
| 18 | Her own body of work was complete five years ago , when failing eyesight and less mobile hands forced her to retire . |
| 19 | However , whatever , the reason why I mention it , I do notice that Green Peace are thinking of , perhaps some members saw it in the press , did you , that Green Peace are making a formal complaint to the European Commission about switching from de-sulphurisation to importing low sulphur coal , and it may be something that we should focus in on as well . |
| 20 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |
| 21 | She checks them out carefully through face-to-face interviews and obtains references , but is still surprised that so few customers ask her any questions about her sitters . |
| 22 | It is disappointing that so few teachers thought it worth attending to express their views either on the resolutions put forward or to raise other matters . |
| 23 | Evaluation of the McClellan system is difficult because there have been so few opportunities to see it in operation . |
| 24 | Perhaps few manors detailed their work as much as Tangmere ; many were probably worked from oral instructions , but the complexity of daily organisation in a society often unpredictable and expanding becomes clear . |
| 25 | The sparing use of the Practice Statement is confirmed by the statistics : the use of the Statement was made 39 times between 1966 and the end of 1989 , but in only 12 cases has it been applied to overrule a previous decision . |
| 26 | A pleasant stroll through gently wooden slopes brings you to a small clearing of luxury homes … |
| 27 | You know I , I , I mean I have n't written this one and it makes it quite difficult for me to see some of the questions , but I actually write I think that 's the most important thing in training is asking questions er and I 'll perhaps bring down some examples to show you . |
| 28 | So social scientists interpreted him as a cultural determinist ? |
| 29 | So some academics fear they might fall behind in the promotion race if they get involved with TCS . ’ |
| 30 | So some academics fear they might fall behind in the promotion race if they get involved with TCS . ’ |