Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UDCs are the most controversial of the urban innovations , and are given separate consideration later in this chapter . |
| 2 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 3 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ I like the walrus best ’ , … ‘ because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters . ’ |
| 5 | I felt a little sorry for the old fellow . |
| 6 | She 'd feel a little sorry for the little girl if she blacked out in the race and fell under all those hooves . |
| 7 | The Association is most grateful to the Rococo Group for their work in producing an excellent book and to all those who contributed to it and supported its sales . |
| 8 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 9 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 10 | I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind opening remarks . |
| 11 | I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his statement and endorsement of the policy under which the security arrangements are conducted within the Province and for his reference to the rule of law . |
| 12 | Central Council is most grateful for the generous support that has led to this successful outcome . |
| 13 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 14 | Death must represent one of the strongest impingements of reality , and perhaps the most confusing for the confused self . |
| 15 | At later stages of preservation , the predator assemblages may be further biased by water transport or weathering , so that the end result can be most confusing to the would-be palaeoecologist . |
| 16 | The problems are most acute in the non-advanced sector where many eligible applicants are unable to gain admission to courses leading to vocational qualifications . |
| 17 | It must be most trying under the present pressures . ’ |
| 18 | Although rendered rather unnecessary by the current spell of good weather , the usual rainy summer season should see a warm welcome for a new climbing wall opened in norther Snowdonia . |
| 19 | He is perhaps most Spanish in the mystical emotion at the heart of such motets as ‘ Emendemus in melius ’ and ‘ O crux , ave ’ . |
| 20 | It is quite possible that that arrangement is the one that is most conducive to the public good . |
| 21 | LIFFE 's membership is widely representative of the financial services industry . |
| 22 | During that first year in Fontanellato I was obliged to join the most junior of the Fascist organizations and became a Piccola Italiana , a little Italian . |
| 23 | Measurement , and the reason why Lazarsfeld was so insistent on developing a social research format that permitted even a modest level of quantification , is one of the procedures that facilitates the mathematisation of theory , a feature which is the hallmark of the most advanced of the natural sciences , such as physics . |
| 24 | The reliability of the developed approach was further confirmed by the fact that no protected bases were observed when an identical binding reaction was subjected to various DMS treatments in solution ( prior to electrophoresis ) , presumably due to the kinetic instability of the Jun-AP-1-binding site complex ( 7 ) which DNase I being a bulky molecule is unable to sense . |
| 25 | Not only are the most disadvantaged on the receiving end of most crime , argues Harrison , they also have to put up with the heaviest police presence . |
| 26 | Any feeling of insecurity in the reader 's mind concerning this dual interpretation of unc is not so much due to the perversity of the author but is rather due to the dual role that the public at large expects x to play . |
| 27 | Although our sample may not be rigorously representative of the whole population with complications of reflux it is representative of the population presenting to physicians and surgeons with a gastroenterological intrest . |
| 28 | The drama menu is potentially the most mouth-watering in the entire festival programmes . |
| 29 | Other factors were deployed , but the standpoint of the report was predominantly that of the legal profession and local affinities , rather than the interests of the accused or the more efficient despatch of business . |
| 30 | As regards the latter , some of the most mobile in the British case are workers in personal services ; those , for example , seeking work in the catering trades . |