Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial issue raised during the visit related to Japan 's colonial occupation of Korea , and specifically the forced recruitment of thousands of Korean women — some historians suggested as many as 200,000 — to be used sexually by the Imperial Japanese Army fighting in China and South-East Asia . |
| 2 | What is known , is that approximately 200 enemy aircraft were encountered , in what was the most concentrated attack made on the 401st . |
| 3 | There is , however , a problem over the derivation of the result , for a rather subtle reason connected with the structure of the smaller-scale motions . |
| 4 | For example , neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , one of the techniques used to determine the composition of ancient ceramics , would be impossible without a computer program , since the calculations required are so complex and extensive that not even the most resilient individual armed with a pocket calculator could possibly complete them in a single lifetime . |
| 5 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 6 | One the most widely used dialects included in the bill was Sardinian ; others were Ladino , Catalan , and the Occitan dialect existing mainly in southern France . |
| 7 | A widely used definition pitched at the macro-level is Maxwell 's ( Maxwell et al. |
| 8 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |
| 9 | Twenty-four hours later it would still have required access to a crystal ball to predict the result after some of the most enthralling encounters seen on a golf course since man first put club to ball . |
| 10 | These findings lend support to the view that persuading people to dispose of unused or rarely used medicines stored in the home might play a part in reducing the numbers of impulsive overdoses of these substances . |
| 11 | Looked at from the perspective of land distribution and usage , Great Britain could be described as a predominantly agricultural kingdom based on the three countries of England , Scotland , and Wales . |
| 12 | Silicon Graphics Inc is moving on down this this week , with the launch of new ‘ RISC PC ’ desktop systems , presumably ACE systems based upon the MIPS R4000 chip . |
| 13 | The most striking activity undertaken on a frontier without consulting royal authority — perhaps the most striking event in the whole history of European expansion — was the conquest of most of the American continent south of the Tropic of Cancer in the space of a single generation by a succession of Spanish military leaders . |
| 14 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Shearman , as District Chairman , recognised that the District could not continue in its relatively impecunious way ‘ sustained by a very small number of rather weak branches dispersed over a very wide area … most of the branches were struggling ’ . |
| 16 | They sought out the most profitable lines produced in the most efficient of their plants operating with the cheapest labour available . |
| 17 | Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) . |
| 18 | One of the most wanted fugitives sought by the Italian police , Nunzio Barbarossa , alleged to be a head of the Neapolitan Camorra , had been arrested in the northern city of Bologna in October 1989 . |
| 19 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly these rather different agenda reflected to a certain extent divisions between the needs of teachers operating out of humanities computing and history departments , respectively . |
| 21 | By anybody 's standards , and even by the rather disorganised measurements applied by the hon. Gentleman , that is a substantial increase . |
| 22 | A BADLY decomposed body found in the Sidlaw Hills near Dundee at the weekend is that of Nealle Wilson , a mentally handicapped man who went missing two years ago , police revealed yesterday . |
| 23 | Police in Sunderland do not know if the badly decomposed remains found in the River Wear are male or female . |
| 24 | Thus in a bid to weaken Arab support for allied action , Saddam turned the bunker deaths of Iraqi citizens into an international photo-opportunity while allied and Iraqi intelligence continue to collude in suppressing images of the dead Iraqi conscripts slaughtered by the bombing of Kuwait . |
| 25 | I was also sent details of a most interesting menu served at a banquet for Prince Charles and the Prince 's Youth Business Trust held in Warwick Castle . |
| 26 | It opens with an outline map and the superimposition of the rather rigid zones used by the emergency planners . |
| 27 | The most popular story told by the regulars to casual strangers , concerned a very large Swedish seaman who had visited the Blue Boar with a couple of shipmates one evening before the war . |
| 28 | Bourbon , the most popular whisky made in the United States , must have at least 51% corn in the mash ; it may have as much as 79% . |
| 29 | Granger , these full-blooded pictures were among the most popular films released in the latter stages of the war . |
| 30 | And the most popular figure left in the waxworks ? |