Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be showed how intimately the traditional could influence the dances for his corps de ballet . |
| 2 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 3 | Professionally the two should go together . |
| 4 | The insensitivity of the Benthamites , who promoted the Act , lay in their refusal to see how bitterly the poor would resent becoming the designated victims of the Act , as if their love for the dead were in some way inferior to that of ‘ their betters ’ . |
| 5 | But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps the British should back off him . |
| 7 | His harrying of Essex in 994 could well have been this second occasion , and if so the first may have been the Maldon campaign in 991 . |
| 8 | so the seventh will stay |
| 9 | So the latter can have important repercussions at a later stage . |
| 10 | delivered from a maternity hospital so the newborn can have something to look forward to in , in |
| 11 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 12 | Once this was conceded , the next step would be to move to their becoming semi-independent public bodies ( much the same might happen to hospitals and other public services ) , with the ‘ freedom to manage ’ without regard to political pressure from local electors or ‘ vested interests ’ ( trade unions and professionals ) and the freedom to cut labour costs ( the main item in service budgets ) by paying people only what it was necessary to pay them in that local market . |
| 13 | Alternatively , it may be suggested that the question was how much the French should have been asked to concede ; and even if the critical time , ( according to Edmund Gullion , ) was ‘ right after the Elysee agreements of March 1949 ’ and for all the complaint that ‘ South-East Asia 's policy has been junked ’ , and dismay at Acheson 's ‘ French captivity , a closer inspection suggests that there may not in fact have been all that much difference in the assumptions upon which different parts of the State Department were operating . |
| 14 | The more you thrust forward your ideas , your solutions , your methods , the less the subordinate will feel responsible for his own actions , and hence committed . |
| 15 | Only the poor will face the bailiffs . |
| 16 | Only the affluent could afford to take vacations or to travel abroad because holidays with pay were not mandatory in the 1920s . |
| 17 | No spark of humour ( even of sanity ) was allowed to invade the hallowed Mixture as Before : Beauty , Knitting , Fashion , Cookery , Short Story , in embalmed vacuity , delivered from that pinnacle of self-righteousness which only the mediocre could sustain . |
| 18 | If they have money , they can go into private homes or villages where only the elderly can live . |
| 19 | When the Malay leaders of Malaysia assert that the Malays are ‘ bumiputras ’ , sons of the soil , and therefore to be accorded privileges as against the Chinese and Indian Malaysians , only the unkind would point out that the Malays were also immigrants from an earlier period , and that no-one has paid attention to the claims of the real indigenous peoples , the Dayak and other tribes of the forestland . |
| 20 | Only the best will do , in everything from personnel through equipment and working practices . |
| 21 | And for people for whom only the best will do , the magnificent Eclipse has everything … from hob light to an automatic oven timer . |
| 22 | Affluent , up-market , very fashionable : only the best will do . |
| 23 | But if this were to happen , only the rich would benefit . |
| 24 | There was little social justice in a system whereby simony could dictate the duration of one 's time in purgatory ; was it right that only the rich could secure such release ? |
| 25 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 26 | Only the rich can ski in Switzerland which makes for a degree of civilisation neighbours ca n't match . |
| 27 | Contrary to popular belief , recent studies reveal that wood ( especially firewood in the shape of logs rather than small twigs and branches ) has become so scarce that in many villages only the rich can afford to buy it . |
| 28 | Suppose everyone buys meals , but only the rich can afford to go to the cinema . |
| 29 | But the point is what we 're being told is effectively that only the rich can have second marriages , that 's what this Child Support Act brings about . |
| 30 | Indeed , if tennis was just the French Open , only the strong would take it up , and even then , many would n't survive . |