Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case Napoleon III was not worried by Austria ; economically weak and diplomatically isolated as a result of her erratic policy during the Crimean War , she was no threat to France . |
| 2 | But because it is essentially Brose 's show , the biggest should go to Mr Hoffman , who must be reckoned one of the most agile and subtly controlled comedians around . |
| 3 | It is not possible or useful to provide an encyclopaedic account of the collectivities existing ‘ within ’ the economic classes in Britain but this section pursues the analysis of two rather broad and vaguely defined , yet nonetheless politically and culturally important , social collectivities : the ‘ working class ’ and the ‘ middle class ’ , as these terms are used by ‘ ordinary people ’ and formalised by sociologists . |
| 4 | GEOFF BANKS : ’ Quite the most striking and uniquely designed piece of fun-wear I 've seen in years . ’ |
| 5 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 6 | Set in Chile , men and women , spirits , the forces of nature and history come together in an unforgettable , wholly absorbing and brilliantly realised epic drawn from Allende 's best selling novel . |
| 7 | Unlike a scoria cone though , a pumice cone is usually rather low and poorly defined , and sometimes does not even have a recognizable crater . |
| 8 | The intricate and narrow ( 5 ; 0.2pc ) filaments of Fig. 6 b are strikingly linear and mostly run parallel to one another . |
| 9 | The dictionary , published in 1835 , though not the most copious , is the most serviceable , the most reliable and soundly based , ever produced . |
| 10 | This poem foreshadows the method of the later , greater poetry of The Waste Land in trying to hold the most primitive and most developed in one by letting the former show through the latter and the development of one out of the other be seen . |
| 11 | This is the most interesting and well preserved specimen of sixth century Byzantine church building in the west . |
| 12 | As an architect he is one of the most interesting and least known of the Victorian Gothic Revivalists . ’ |
| 13 | Of these , by far the most popular and universally used is the Dewey Decimal Classification . |
| 14 | The most popular and much sought after public houses are those with a wide range of services , such as accommodation and food , in addition to beers and spirits . |
| 15 | The bush — or , as it used to be called , dwarf ( misleading these days in view of the growing popularity of the miniature and patio types ) — is the form that is most popular and commonly planted in gardens everywhere . |
| 16 | One of the most charming and intricately made toys is the toy theatre . |
| 17 | Not so tall and powerfully built that she felt as though she might break if he so much as touched her . |
| 18 | ‘ The teacher was not highly qualified but very much alive and specially trained in English medium teaching at Kagumo Training College nearby ; the children had been learning English for six months . |
| 19 | That said , the car felt extremely solid and well screwed together , exterior panel gaps were uniformly narrow and even and all the doors shut with a satisfying ‘ thunk ’ . |
| 20 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 21 | Joe Haines , from his vantage point as Harold Wilson 's press secretary , reckoned that so strong and so determined was their resolve to make the country a member that no government , regardless of party , could have resisted it indefinitely . |
| 22 | This was essentially a room for transacting business , though if Fournier 's picture is reliable , the Emperor seems to have sat at an inconvenient height at his desk in a small chair , covered in green plush , so low that once seated in it , writing must have been difficult . |
| 23 | It is highly effective , highly professional and highly regarded and in no way would its organisational change mean that it was any less committed to or capable of working on the types of renewable energy mentioned by the hon. Gentleman from tidal to wave power . |
| 24 | The fullest development of karst scenery is attained where the limestone is relatively pure ( in excess of 80 per cent ) , very thick , mechanically strong and massively jointed ( so that water flow is concentrated along joints rather than passing through the mass of the rock ) . |
| 25 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |
| 26 | The SPG was , however , highly controversial and widely criticized for its behaviour at demonstrations in particular . |
| 27 | Deep feelings are aroused by such activities in those who care , even though these are sometimes personally repressed or professionally suppressed . |
| 28 | To refute charges of atheism he cited two religious treatises he had written , ‘ Sabbath-dayes exercises ’ and ‘ Positions in Divinitie ’ ( apparently unpublished and now lost ) . |
| 29 | While SCAP had sponsored major changes in Japanese society , these were less extensive than originally expected and the result of SCAP policies was to strengthen the forces of moderate conservatism and capitalism in Japan . |
| 30 | Once treated fabric will be quicker drying , less absorbent and better insulated . |