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 | Her own body of work was complete five years ago , when failing eyesight and less mobile hands forced her to retire . |
| 18 | A pleasant stroll through gently wooden slopes brings you to a small clearing of luxury homes … |
| 19 | So social scientists interpreted him as a cultural determinist ? |
| 20 | Whereas previously people wanting to travel abroad had had to overcome a range of bureaucratic and political obstacles , the new regulations only required citizens to present their passports . |
| 21 | We have had a few meetings about the rule but they have always brought in extra bodies to out-vote us . |
| 22 | The reason there have been few accidents is that the road is so dangerous pedestrians avoid it and both Scorton residents and the many visitors to the area are denied pedestrian access to the village . |
| 23 | Extremely fast cars evaporate it is no use changing extremely or fast — we must replace cars or evaporate : Extremely fast cars disintegrate or Extremely fast solvents evaporate . |
| 24 | the complexity of company records , which are not only subject to mysterious , ( but relief-bringing ) disappearances down the corporation vortex , but when occasionally discovered are often so specialized and riddled with technical jargon that the average jurist finds them unintelligible — naturally corporate lawyers render them intelligible in ways which favour their clients ; |
| 25 | Pairs breeding along acidic streams laid their eggs slightly later , laid fewer , lighter eggs and fed their chicks less often . |
| 26 | No black faces , only white ones watching her without greeting . |
| 27 | So it was that a generation of highly educated women occupied their minds with Bowlby and Spock and The Joy Of Cooking and little else . |
| 28 | It 's only good manners to make your guests feel at home and give them a go now and again , but Swindon were a little too kind just before half-time . |
| 29 | The falsity of the impression that all private press books are expensive is demonstrated by the fact that fourteen examples from the Essex House ( 3 ) , Vale ( 1 ) , Shakespeare Head ( 1 ) , Riccardi ( 1 ) , Nonesuch ( 3 ) , Golden Cockerel ( 4 ) and Gregynog ( 1 ) presses fell in the price range £18-£40 , and the uniformity of some of the prices suggests that only protective reserves pushed them as high as that . |
| 30 | Two other extremely good chapters include one on the granivorous genus Pogonomyrmex and the exciting area of cooperative colony foundation in Atta leafcutting ants . |