Example sentences of "and the [adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the cost of being born in the most beautiful and the most cruel country in the world . |
| 2 | Robert Fellowes , her personal private secretary and the most powerful man in the Palace , is credited with the Princess of Wales 's recent announcement that the Queen and Prince Philip had been supportive to her . |
| 3 | He had left the next Phoenix King with a strong army , a secure line of fortresses in the north and the most powerful navy in the world . |
| 4 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 5 | In his softly spoken New Zealand accent he says ‘ It 's the biggest and the most influential monastery in the area and is very much regarded as a religious and cultural centre for the local people . |
| 6 | El Rocco was Sydney 's top jazz club in the 1950s , an atmospheric dive which dispensed both the worst coffee and the most daring music in town . |
| 7 | The Premier League have already demonstrated that the almost regal Sir John Quinton and the most pleasant man in the street , Rick Parry , are postmen — and nothing more — for the 22 clubs . |
| 8 | And the most dangerous players in the world today are those athletic and financially secure ones who calculate risks with the astuteness of a bank manager , but go for the first prize , if possible , and the subsequent contracts , knowing that if the high-flying fairway wood does n't clear a ditch at Augusta , they can still enjoy a steak dinner tonight , thanks to a pitch and single putt ! |
| 9 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 10 | All the more odd , then , that yesterday 's funeral should have been both a celebration of time-honoured Tembu ritual and the most vocal demonstration in years on what the rest of the world calls South African soil of the strength of the ANC and its far from tribalistic affiliate , the South African Communist Party . |
| 11 | Powerfully supported in West Germany by leading academic figures such as Professor Ingolf Lamprecht , Head of Freie University 's Institute of Biophysics in Berlin , and in Canada by Professor James Webb of Victoria University 's Department of Biophysics , to name only two , his work has been described as being of prophetic insight , incredibly productive and important and the most significant breakthrough in the field of cancer research today , one which should be given the highest priority in terms of social worth , funding and exposure by the media , as such discoveries can literally usher in a new science for the benefit of all humanity . |
| 12 | Though summer moisture and warmth encourage vegetation , soil mobility discourages it , and the most active spots in patterned ground remain uncolonized ( Figure 3.9 ) . |
| 13 | And the most vital step in preparing to persuade is to find out as much as you can about the people you are targeting . |
| 14 | The obvious contender is Mr Havel , the Forum leader and the most popular man in the country . |
| 15 | The terrific open air restaurant and bar situated on the beach front serve a full range of local and international dishes , and the most popular disco in Gumbet is only a 300 metre stroll away across the beach . |
| 16 | For that half of the nation , the Government have been the meanest , the most divisive and the most vindictive Government in modern times . |
| 17 | The following account shows the enormous developments in church life in Albania , once a declared atheistic state and the most isolated country in Europe . ’ |
| 18 | THE proud citizens of Florence will show you the most beautiful painting in the world and the most beautiful statue in the world . |
| 19 | This was the man whom Mary of Guise described to Sadler as ‘ a simple and the most inconstant man in the world ; for whatsoever he determineth today , he changeth tomorrow ’ ; and there were plenty of people in Scotland to help him to change from his position of March 1543 . |
| 20 | However , although significant , these changes in cell proliferation were very modest ( <20% increase ) and the most marked changes in cellular kinetics were seen in the proximal colon where most of the fermentation occurred and the highest SCFA concentrations were seen . |
| 21 | Another topic on which we touched , because it was one of our preoccupations , was London and the most desirable districts in which to live . |
| 22 | The chief of all these Colleges and the most important wizard in the Empire is the Supreme Patriarch . |
| 23 | But no single country at present has the money to build a really major new telescope to follow the Space Telescope — and the most important advances in astronomy have always come with the use of a major new instrument , from Galileo 's telescope of 1609 to the Einstein Observatory in 1978 . |
| 24 | As the final sentence of the chapter puts it , The belief which inspires every paragraph of the present Report is that this much-desired spiritual unity in the nation and the equally necessary uplift in the whole level of the popular imagination can only come through a general acknowledgement of the paramount place which the native speech and literature should occupy in our schools and in the common life of our people . |
| 25 | This may be so , but in the light of the difficulties inherent in the decision , the very clear decision in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 and the equally clear statement in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 that the question whether a contract is void or only voidable is irrelevant , I have been unable to reach any other conclusion . |
| 26 | This ought not to be surprising given the diversity of law itself and the increasingly diverse ways in which legal systems are developing . |
| 27 | Marr was overwhelmed by the bravery of the lyric and the immensely humane way in which Morrissey tackled the subject . |
| 28 | For an industry which , as Frans Andriessen , the External Affairs Commissioner , has pointed out , accounts for only 5% of EC exports compared to the 25% of the population in industrial work and the even larger percentage in financial services , agriculture is absurdly mollycoddled . |
| 29 | Their uniforms were the practical donkey jacket , the denims , and the comfortably sturdy boots in red , yellow , bright blue or green . |
| 30 | The sharp fall in share prices in 1990 and the more protracted decline in commercial property prices could have exerted an influence , since such movements reduce the value of corporate collateral , possibly making distress borrowing more difficult . |