Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Pound the critic seems to be always in his shirt-sleeves sparing a few distraught hours or minutes from the more serious business of writing poems or translating them , his criticism is dispersed , though there is much more of it than we are likely to remember . |
| 2 | Nothing could be worse than the life I was leading at present , I thought , where the pressures from being homeless and unemployed were likely to force me into a series of criminal acts which would result in prison , or vagrancy at the least . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've merely done a little time-tailoring , simply removed one of the pleats or flares from the ostensibly straight leg of time . |
| 4 | The large scales are very easily dislodged or damaged against the cover glass , and this may lead to infection or distress at the very least . |
| 5 | A feature of many predator assemblages is the preferential destruction or loss of the more distal parts of the limbs . |
| 6 | There is a misapprehension that Northern Ireland is the only category 1 area that will not benefit from that , but that fund is designed to help the poorest member states , not poorer regions or provinces within the more prosperous nations . |
| 7 | Quite apart from his business acumen ( by the end of his commercial life he was the head of the largest clothing manufacturers — which his father had acquired earlier , originally named Freedmans — in the British dominions , as well as chairman or president of the most important trade bodies related to that industry ) he held very senior positions in such organisations as the Baron de Hirsch Institute , the Montreal Reform Club , the Montefiore Club , the Montreal Insurance Co , the Jewish Public Library , the Hebrew Educational Institute , the Canadian Jewish Committee for the Relief of War Sufferers in Europe , the Executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress , the Canadian Colonisation Committee , the Zion Athletic Club , the Zionist Organisation of Canada , and many , many more . |
| 8 | Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ . |
| 9 | Moreover , in none of these surviving volumes is there any sign of interest or skill in the rapidly developing scholastic disciplines of northern France and Lorraine at this time . |
| 10 | I just thought that the war would be fought far away , like the one in Abyssinia , and that it would be over in a few days , or weeks at the most . |
| 11 | Moreover , just like racism and sexism , it is so engrained within the structure of social life that it is unlikely to be challenged effectively by rational argument or appeals to the more philanthropic side of human nature . |
| 12 | They readjust the picture to admit a counter-current of more radical authors or point to the less dramatic use of ‘ experimental ’ and ‘ modernist ’ techniques in the novels of mainstream fiction ( Bradbury 1973:177–7 , 1977:18–20 , 1987:106–11 ; Lodge 1971:9–34 ) . |
| 13 | In 1990 , 6079 residents were enumerated in 241 establishments , including 21 NHS hospitals , 160 homes for elderly people ( 46 run by the social services departments , 105 private residential , and nine run by voluntary agencies ) , 32 private nursing homes , and four hospitals or hostels for the mentally or physically handicapped ( table I ) . |
| 14 | ABOVE : Intensive training enables sniffer dogs to detect drugs or explosives in the most unlikely places . |
| 15 | Competition organiser Michele Marcus said : ‘ An overwhelming number of parents nominated M & S as the least friendly retailer . |
| 16 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 17 | If , in a multi-pack file , the only information about hits is the relative number per pack or area , the index should be placed in the centre of the pack or area with the lowest hit density . |
| 18 | Many of the poems in these collections were originally written for publication in magazines or newspapers amidst the increasingly time-consuming business of managing his literary property . |
| 19 | Because the outer layer is hard and brittle , any heaving or shifting of the more mobile material deeper down will cause it to break up , providing the clean , sharply-defined angular blocks which cover the surface of the flow . |
| 20 | While much was achieved in improving safety standards , towards the decade 's end there was a series of accidents that perhaps shocked the public more than anything since Harrow & Wealdstone in the very early days of nationalisation . |
| 21 | Always ask service engineers whether their diagnostic disks are ‘ clean ’ , or write-protected at the very least . |
| 22 | This book has discussed the nature of mental handicap in Britain today , and the ways that attitudes to the mentally handicapped community are changing . |
| 23 | It made no reference to the possibility that schools for the less able might depress expectations and discourage the pupils in them , or make it difficult for such schools to attract an adequate share of available resources . |
| 24 | But it did not accept that schools for the less able should be poorer in buildings , quality of teaching , or any other respect . |
| 25 | The tendency amongst many contemporary psychologists is to give less significance than Freud to the purely psychosexual aspects of property . |
| 26 | In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited . |
| 27 | Now out in paperback is Joyce Molyneux 's The Carved Angel Cookery Book ( Grafton , £6.99 ) , full of recipes that range from the frankly rib-sticking to the fashionably rib-revealing , from pheasant with pig 's trotters to courgette terrine , and with a whole , wonderful chapter on offal . |
| 28 | Together , these studies suggest that although individuals with the less active form of ALDH and more active forms of ADH are less likely to become alcoholic , they have a greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease if they do drink than people with the normal form of ALDH and less active forms of ADH . |
| 29 | A frequent correlate of feminist psychology 's lack of political analysis , is a conviction that changes in the purely psychological areas of perceptions and expectations can improve gender relations . |
| 30 | Financial supports and incentives for agricultural development are graded so that farmers in the least favoured zone ( montagne ) receive the highest levels . |