Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adv] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the heart of supposedly the most advanced power , Britain , the issue of Irish national liberation re-emerged in the Easter Rising of 1916 ; for the British , this was as shocking in act of disloyalty in the midst of war as was the Bolshevik revolution for the Russian establishment . |
| 2 | The combined effect of these provisions is to give a power of summary arrest in the case of all the more serious offences and many of the most commonly committed offences , e.g. murder , manslaughter , the major offences against the person , offences under the Criminal Damage Act and almost all the Theft Act offences . |
| 3 | ‘ Over there is an occasional table with a vase of flowers , dried and well past their best , and down there is the piano ; and one , may I add , which would try the patience of even the totally tone-deaf . ’ |
| 4 | At the clearing stations the backlog of even the partially repaired mounted alarmingly as , with the constant demand of the Voie Sacrée supply route , all too few vehicles could be spared for use as ambulances . |
| 5 | South Armagh , once known as bandit country , is notorious for the operations of arguably the most effective and committed members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army . |
| 6 | One notable exception to the bland , sanitised image-building that marks many a sporting biography is Jonathan , the story of perhaps the most gifted Welsh fly-half the Lions never had . |
| 7 | The enthusiasm of even the most committed staff can flag when routine work and unanticipated events distract teachers from the targets and task " ( DES 1989e:15 ) . |
| 8 | On the other hand , in the eyes of even the most loyal ministers and the foremost grand dukes and prelates , he was no holy man but a charlatan whose doctrine of ‘ redemption by sin ’ was but a thin veil for crude depravity . |
| 9 | We can see that their present distribution upon the globe is the result of all the more recent changes the earth 's surface has undergone ; and by a careful study of the phenomena we are sometimes able to deduce approximately what those past changes must have been , in order to produce the distribution we find to exist . |
| 10 | The communal redistribution of land , the heavy impositions of the State , the vulnerability of even the most successful household to the vagaries of the climate — all provided major obstacles to the emergence of households sufficiently enterprising to hire labour , invest and expand . |
| 11 | Exhaustion is a permanent feature preventing the completion of even the most simple task . |
| 12 | To be described as surplus to requirements , perhaps after many years of loyal and diligent service , can cripple the self-esteem of even the most resilient person . |
| 13 | In seeking to develop a technique that would be compatible with the findings of modern physics , she demonstrates the relevance of even the most abstract of concepts to our understanding of ourselves and our relation to others through language . |
| 14 | As the case studies make clear , there was much variation in the circumstances of even the relatively narrowly-defined categories of cattle theft and homicide . |
| 15 | THE past couple of years has seen an explosion in the number of computing books on the shelves of even the most humble book shop . |
| 16 | But of course , the ‘ life from space ’ hypothesis does not answer the question of how the very first organic molecules arose ; and it seems at least as likely that they arose on primitive Earth as elsewhere . |
| 17 | Another hundred years on , the station has undergone a multimillion-pound facelift and British Rail is confident its ambitious refurbishment and future development plans will meet the approval of even the most regal travellers . |
| 18 | Expectation has been shown to influence the outcome of even the most carefully controlled double-blind trial in either a positive or a negative direction . |
| 19 | Is it seriously suggested that the entire elderly population should be regularly screened , that a clear majority should be followed up monthly for six months , and that half should be treated for life on the basis of even the most optimistic interpretation of the trial data ? |
| 20 | The collectorship , however , was not in the gift of even the most influential politician , for it was an elective office , but it was , nonetheless , intimately connected with parliamentary politics . |
| 21 | stock responses like ‘ well , you know , we do n't really think about it that much , actually ’ , send the hearts of even the least demanding interviewer plummeting into their boots . |
| 22 | It is all the fault of speculators who used the cars as a means of making mega-bucks , like buying paintings or antiques , rather than as personal playthings. 11 MC2966 meteoric rise in the price of even the most mundane of so-called classic motorcars , such as Morris Minors and Volkswagen Beetles , which have now come back down to earth with a thud . |
| 23 | It has always been a source of amazement to me that anglers who are prepared to pay upwards of £100 for a rod and reel moan plaintively about the price of perhaps the most important item of tackle : the hook . |
| 24 | The conduct of the War required fiscal policies sufficiently egalitarian to appease the conscience of even the most austere socialist . |
| 25 | A reader is free to interpret the actions and the motivations of the characters of even the most traditional novel in a variety of ways . |
| 26 | Luckily , basic preventative measures and healthy lifestyles are within the reach of even the most impoverished Solomon Islander who , in the case of malaria , can greatly reduce chances of possible infection with a combination of fixing drainage , making or buying mosquito nets and learning more about how the disease works . |
| 27 | Animation Works Interactive ( AWI ) uses the number crunching and logic abilities of PCs to make animation an art that is within the reach of even the least artistic amongst us , almost a science , in fact . |
| 28 | There may be a tendency to overdo it and attach sounds to almost everything , however , which can fray the temper of even the most patient colleague after a while . |
| 29 | There may be a tendency to overdo it and attach sounds to almost everything , however , which can fray the temper of even the most patient colleague after a while . |
| 30 | He says it is difficult to sustain solidarity here : the daily attrition of labour , exhaustion and hunger undermine the will of even the most committed . |