Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 All the more tragic therefore that one of the earliest deaths in boxing , and perhaps the most controversial resulted from a fight in which a deaf boxer took part .
2 Ryarsh also makes non-standard special shapes , although it is most economic to select from the extensive range of standard specials .
3 Well yes , yes in terms it sounds mos most confusing compared with a straightforward business world but if , if , if the campaign are saying that it 's got to be this way for legal reasons they 're not prepared to accept it .
4 From 1275 , with the exception of a certain number of years , usually two parliaments met annually , even three in 1278 ; altogether fifty assembled during the thirty-five years of the reign .
5 Whether such a steady state is locally stable depends on the assumptions made concerning expectations .
6 This would then mean that there should be 12 teams or thereabouts each dealing with a particular geographic area of the Region for all aspects of Council Tax .
7 So are you saying then effectively that looking towards the post two thousand and six scenario , and bearing in mind that that review will not be let , will , is likely to take place at the most within the next five years ?
8 De Klerk on May 8 embarked on an 18-day , nine-country tour of Western Europe , the most extensive undertaken by a South African leader since the National Party came to power in 1948 .
9 There was remarkably little to do in the hospital if you did n't want to read Agatha Christie or knit half-mile scarves .
10 After four years at sea and now without compass and sextant , apparently the main attributes of its navigational aids , the old tub and crew are in need of a refit and the new establishment would be most foolish to embark upon the same kind of voyage.J I HOWARD , Glendale , Upper Street , Witnesham .
11 At its worst this results in a sort of tasteless Euro-soup , which by trying to be all things to all men , ends up being nothing to anybody .
12 Altogether this led to an effect which might be described as a tapering of market opportunities , and it was sharpened as international growth rates decelerated in the early 1970s .
13 Well if we 're going to start to go into funding , I 'd rather this went into the pink paper session , and that we have our Chief Executives down here to explain that situation .
14 This match had all the ingredients which still make the British game the most exciting to watch in the world — speed , commitment and flair .
15 Clearly , it is most unpleasant to sit on the beach surrounded by dog excrement , and of course , above the high tide mark , it will remain here without being washed away by the sea .
16 Eventually this deepened below the random of Fleming 's Level and rendered the pumping and winding sump at the intersection obsolete .
17 Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob .
18 Often a family of bull , cow , and pup can be found quite close to the dunes and is most interesting to observe from a reasonable distance .
19 The situation was vastly different compared with the high-inflation 1970s .
20 This is one reason why firms are often most willing to start with a clean sheet of paper when setting up a new subsidiary , as Britain 's Midland Bank did when it established First Direct , its successful telephone-banking business .
21 ‘ I am extremely sorry to hear about the royal situation , but it is a personal matter , ’ she added .
22 I am naturally extremely sorry to hear of the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman very properly brings to the attention of the House , but he will not expect me to prejudge any issue of criminality that may arise .
23 Why is it so pleasant to walk down a particular street , drive through a country village with its church , cottages and farms , or visit a country house and gardens ?
24 These last two are obviously each related to the nervous system and to the brain but not necessarily to a particular part of the brain and taken together they overlap in such obscure ways that they are best regarded as sub-systems in different domains , one can talk in terms of one or the other but not both simultaneously .
25 For reasons principally of economy , most county councils have preferred to concentrate development on a few villages which can then conveniently be provided with the full range of public amenities — schools , shops , libraries , sewerage facilities and so on-This saves on the enormous cost of duplicating amenities in every village and helps to direct and contain population growth to a few well-chosen sites .
26 That kind of situation , Dr is entirely right to say to the general assembly , that kind of situation is utterly unforgivable , it 's utterly unforgivable .
27 If a given investment project within the domain of operation of capitalist enterprises were considered desirable as part of an investment plan ( to satisfy a definite ‘ social need ’ , to gain export revenue , to develop a ‘ growth industry ’ , to preserve employment ) and yet the capitalist enterprises concerned were unwilling to invest then the investment planning authorities would have two broad options : either nationalise the enterprises and force them to invest on criteria other than those of profitability , or ‘ distort ’ the market to render the project sufficiently profitable to appeal to the enterprises .
28 Writing as a Marxist influenced by the philosopher Louis Althusser , Castells argued that urban sociology , especially that developed by the Chicago School , was ‘ ideological ’ By this he meant that urban sociologists had never stopped to ask what was actually theoretically significant about cities and city life .
29 It also includes information on mineral exploration in some areas , especially that derived from the activities of the MRP or MEG projects .
30 The most amusing commentary on the limitations which are inherent in this type of research , however , is perhaps that enshrined in the Indonesian concept of a ‘ statistical Muslim ’ ( or Islam statistique ) , a person who , while not actively practising the faith , so records his identity for census and other purposes .
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