Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial change of auditors of the past two years took place at Prudential Corporation . |
| 2 | Leapor 's most telling examination of standards of beauty is ‘ Corydon . |
| 3 | Cruel , a little , but not savage : Alix could see Hannah smiling gamely , taking it in good part , and wondered if she was also taking in the rather subtle sub-text of allusions to drugs other than nicotine . |
| 4 | In addition , I do not believe that it would necessarily be the most cost-effective use of resources in terms of environmental output to spend such a substantial sum on that project . |
| 5 | Always she brought with her a rather odd bunch of flowers for her old friend . |
| 6 | ‘ The challenge that faces car manufacturers is the development of a process and infrastructure which can achieve the most complete re-utilisation of materials from cars and the development of models which permit even easier recycling . ’ |
| 7 | Though this work was done to explain the strength of very tiny crystals it is worthy of the attention of engineers who are perhaps somewhat frightened of cracks but take a rather light-hearted view of steps in machinery and structures . |
| 8 | His mother writes that ‘ it was just a comfortable flat with no frills ’ , but Hanns Ebensten says that ‘ it was one of the most prestigious block of flats in Johannesburg at that time ’ . |
| 9 | The procedure was explained by one of the most celebrated sculptors of icons in India , Acharya Sri Hanumanthacharya , whose idol-adorned gardens and studio are situated near Bangalore at the township of Devanahalli . |
| 10 | In recent years this has become more widely recognized , with various authors identifying the fundamentally different sets of values upon which different studies have been based . |
| 11 | Thus we see in sociology two strikingly different analyses of crimes of violence against women : one in which they are the infrequent consequence of a few mentally deranged men ( which is supported by the low incidence of such crimes in the criminal statistics ) ; and one in which they are an institutionalized set of practices which are part of an overarching system of gender inequality ( in which the low number of convictions for such crimes is merely evidence of the state 's collusion ) . |
| 12 | Arguably this advocacy of mercurials for the treatment of syphilis laid the foundations for the success of the paracelsian movement , because the newly arrived scourge of syphilis was the most feared disease of the sixteenth century , occupying a similar position to AIDS in Africa today . |
| 13 | So it has proved , with that alert enthusiast Ashdown turning to the eminently qualified Anthony Lester , QC , who has come up with a rather different interpretation of events to that brought forward by the Law Officers . |
| 14 | From this viewpoint , the regulationist theories give a rather different account of economies like the UK 's from that of world-system theories . |
| 15 | The deletion of the negative by Kirkup matched well the new more assertively public attitude of homosexuals in the 1960s and 1970s ; his means , the depiction of a homosexual relationship between a Roman centurion and the crucified body of Christ , depicted in the most physical sensual terms , was nothing if not polemical . |
| 16 | They are driven by an altogether broader set of changes in the conditions under which information is circulated and exchanged as a commodity . |
| 17 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 18 | One of the most interesting groups of buildings at Cosmeston is the farmstead , a group of three buildings arranged around a central yard . |
| 19 | The Reptile House contains one of the most interesting collections of snakes in the country , including both venomous and constrictive types . |
| 20 | There is something strange about a subject in which its research workers are willing to dabble at the application of the jargon of thermodynamics but unwilling to apply even the most rudimentary aspects of mechanics to these problems . |
| 21 | One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information . |
| 22 | The view that a ‘ threshold of effect ’ exists for the effects of phenylketonuria on brain development is based largely on the apparently normal intelligence of subjects with the mildest forms of the disorder ( so called ‘ benign ’ hyperphenylalaninaemia ) , whose plasma phenylalanine concentrations are <1000 µmol/l ( normal 50–120 µmol/l ) and who do not usually receive treatment . |
| 23 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 24 | Marani has been assisted in his efforts by a highly distinguished panel of scholars including Giulio Carlo Argan , Antonio Paolucci , John Pope-Henessy , Craig Hugh Smyth and Giovanni Testori . |
| 25 | The work has now made possible some extremely interesting analyses of changes in time use over the last twenty-five years . |
| 26 | On the other hand , there are three points which may count in its favour : First , it provides a straightforward account of the very varied uses of adjectives in English , and points to a quite direct correlation between observable facts and a highly economical set of assumptions about basic grammatical relations . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , we 'll be trotting them along to probation or a solicitor or whatever and getting that side of things dealt with , etc. etc. , so we try to stitch together some sorts of packages for people who otherwise fall through . |
| 28 | The attention of the news media was firmly focused on the Falklands , and so few accounts of disturbances in British cities were reported . |
| 29 | In their view party leaders and presidents can effectively shape a much broader span of decisions in an open way which advances the representative quality of government . |
| 30 | In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ . |