Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new survey for 1993 , ‘ Pay and Benefits in the Hospitality Industry ’ , will give the most representative review ever of the payment structure and wage costs in the UK hotel and catering industry . |
| 2 | Distance from those affected by government decisions has had the effect of increasing their indifference and sense of alienation , especially in the economically disadvantaged regions furthest from London . |
| 3 | Labour economic development spokesman Councillor Colin Dow said : ‘ We are hoping to get all the people concerned to agree to best and most progressive way forward for Laird . ’ |
| 4 | JODAMI remains a best-priced 4-1 for next month 's Cheltenham Gold Cup after a thrilling win over Chatam in Ireland 's most prestigious steeplechase yesterday at Leopardstown . |
| 5 | At Dundee High Street Branch they decided the most profitable way forward on an exercise bike . |
| 6 | In response , Mr Burgreen undertook what he says is the most extensive study ever of the use of force by policemen . |
| 7 | Here is the very subway corridor in which , in 1980 , Lord Home , Sir Alec as was , became the most celebrated personage ever to be mugged on the Underground system . |
| 8 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 9 | This was not a total surprise , since Prendergast suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome and was frequently to be encountered in the Directors ' Lavatory , but Vic had thought he was alone , and felt rather foolish standing there with the stump of the clothes brush , like an incriminating weapon , in his fist . |
| 10 | It was from a rather combative chapter somewhere around the middle of ‘ Wimbledon in the Ninth Century after Christ ’ . |
| 11 | However , if I may , there is a most distinguished gentleman downstairs in need of your attention . ’ |
| 12 | Yet he or she is usually limited by lack of resources , lack of accommodation , lack of contact outside the institution and downright sexual repressiveness within from any sexual expression whatever . |
| 13 | Then to everyone 's surprise they saw on the side of the track a little old man perhaps in his seventies , wearing an old-fashioned waistcoat and jacket , standing in a brick arch-shaped embrasure looking anxiously at the train . |
| 14 | The flute is an extremely agile instrument both in scale and arpeggio work , staccato and legato ( but in its low register the staccato is difficult of clear articulation and is safer avoided ) and is capable of extremely rapid repetition by double- or triple-tonguing in the medium and upper registers . |
| 15 | THE spokesman for the convicts in a squeaky-clean Danish jail says he will vote No : he fears he may be sent to do his sentence in less salubrious surroundings elsewhere in the European Community if the Maastricht treaty is ratified . |
| 16 | This involves a radical restructuring of the organisation , with devolution into local authority or private management of up to 203 of the 350 or so historic sites now in English Heritage 's care ; the eventual redundancy of nearly 500 staff ( more than one quarter of the total ) ; and the handover of powers to influence decisions on Grade II listed buildings in London , powers inherited in 1986 from the now defunct Greater London Council . |
| 17 | ‘ Aye , ’ Athelstan replied , gently guiding Philomel away from the snow-covered sewer which ran down the middle of the street . |
| 18 | Other changes , this is the Commons ' Heritage Committee of MPs who er were sitting yesterday , under their er leader Gerald Kaufman , the former Labour politician , well he still is a Labour politician , but er he 's not so high profile now in politics , but he seems to be creating a bit of a stir here . |
| 19 | As the politicians try to find a mutually acceptable way forward towards democracy , it is feared disillusioned activists are no longer answerable to the higher echelons of their parties and are turning to crime . |
| 20 | He was taking this highly nervous lady away from the local hospital to one in the Bedford area . |
| 21 | One word of warning : although you should learn to resist strangling by tensing your neck muscles and hitting out hard , it is an extremely dangerous exercise even between friends . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've had this idea ’ , said Lewis , ‘ of letters from a senior devil to a junior devil ’ The Screwtape Letters brought into literary use qualities which Lewis had had to a highly developed degree ever since adolescence . |
| 23 | P. L. Forey offers us a somewhat smug polemic directly on this view ( ’ In itself the scenario is harmless ’ ; ‘ the cause of that ( taxonomic ) pattern if it is considered desirable to know it ’ etc ) . |
| 24 | Favourable financing from the Public Works Loan Board is still made available to the local authorities , although the money market rationale has largely disappeared and local authorities borrow only limited amounts directly in the capital markets . |
| 25 | I seem to remember the Labour Party being dragged down what proved to be a very long dark road indeed by the trade unions . |
| 26 | To everyone 's surprise they now find this somewhat unusual repertoire much in demand , to such an extent indeed that it could be described as ‘ cult ’ . |
| 27 | Not because you wonder if you need them in June , but because they are long white scars instead of neat little puncture marks . |
| 28 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 29 | The greater incidence of widowhood among women of this age means a much lower proportion living with their partner than is true for men , and a much increased likelihood both of living with children/children in law , and of living alone . |
| 30 | After breaking into two local homes and hi-jacking the occupants ' cars the IRA launched their attack on the apparently vulnerable target only to be ambushed themselves by the SAS . |