Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The isotope most commonly used for measurement of colonic transit is 9 9 m Tc-DTPA in liquid form , or it may also be incorporated into ispaghula husk to simulate the physical properties of faeces more closely . |
| 2 | The kind most widely favoured for jewellery , at least in the west , was a delicate pale pink , but in and around Hawaii a black variety might be used for this purpose , and the Chinese were particularly keen on deep red coral for their carvings . |
| 3 | At the other , encoders wishing to ensure that their texts can be used for the widest range of applications , will want provide a level of detailed documentation approximating to the kind most often supplied in the form of a manual . |
| 4 | A companion analysis of findings from samples of eligible women in Colombia also revealed prolapse to be the gynaecological malady most closely associated with parity . |
| 5 | NB : A sentence imposed by a court outside Great Britain shall betreated as a sentence most nearly corresponding with a Great Britain sentence . |
| 6 | Rare transatlantic vagrant , drake most easily told by conspicuous white patch at back of head ; darker duck has much smaller white patch behind eye . |
| 7 | Pure platinum could readily be shaped by hammering , the technique most commonly found on prehistoric nose-rings from Colombia , but its high melting point ( 1775C ) put casting the pure metal beyond the reach of early smiths . |
| 8 | As with the guided tours current staffing levels mean that the time spent on preparation etc. further adds to the strain on the system . |
| 9 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 10 | Stream of consciousness and a variety of other devices are used to transcribe an inner mental world at the expense of the external social experience most often favoured in the conventional , realistic forms of earlier fiction . |
| 11 | Packets of the mixed white and orange-brown powder most strongly implicated in this case each contained an average of 105 mg of inorganic arsenic trioxide ( As 2 O 3 ) . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the particular division most often invoked in contemporary political rhetoric concerning private and public property is misleading with regard to this issue , since the concept of private property suggests a close relationship between person and thing , whilst in practice private property is an institution which works to produce precisely the opposite effect . |
| 13 | Where the rugs of a particular group fall into more than one price category , they have been included in the category most closely associated with their rugs ; their percentage costs in relation to the yardstick items indicate the range of qualities . |
| 14 | Each word within a paragraph is assigned all its possible subject categories , and the category most frequently represented over the whole paragraph is deemed to be the subject area of the text . |
| 15 | The index most often used for this purpose is the General Index of Retail Prices published by the Department of Employment . |
| 16 | When the philosopher-agronomists advocated new crops and new methods they were met with the excuse so often given to Cavanilles on his tour of Aragon , ‘ We do as our fathers do . ’ |
| 17 | Catherine 's sister down there flirting in her |
| 18 | Here the answer must be found through small-scale sustainable business initiatives — difficult to foster without the huge scale of corporate funding so often avalanched into the developing world , but modestly emerging never the less . |
| 19 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 20 | There was also the fact that she had fair hair only partly hidden under her straw boater , a most peculiar hat in these parts . |
| 21 | She half held it out to Ellie as fair play so obviously fought with desire — and Ellie took the decision out of her hands by shouting , ‘ She 's found one ! ’ |
| 22 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 23 | Like the little half-eaten ostrich so expertly reconstructed by Gould back in England , much of what Darwin had seen on the voyage had to be reassessed and re-evaluated after the event . |
| 24 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 25 | The result is a very friendly room without the formality so often associated with many dining areas . |
| 26 | Alistair had not been a published screenplay writer long enough to respond to , or even recognize , this graphic proposition ( though he did keep the telephone number she threw at his feet ) . |
| 27 | But it is gon na be a lengthy er injury and that is a major blow so successfully converted from centre half to striker . |
| 28 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 29 | He had , quote , rarely seen a case so well managed as in this case , unquote . |
| 30 | His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism . |