Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 2 | UDCs are the most controversial of the urban innovations , and are given separate consideration later in this chapter . |
| 3 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 4 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 5 | And he himself told me that the Lord Willington Nursing Home is the most professional of the local nursing homes . |
| 6 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 7 | For parasites whose offspring infect the offspring of their host ( vertical transmission ) , any behaviour by the parasite that decreases the fecundity of its host ( and thereby that of the parasite itself ) is unlikely to be favoured by natural selection . |
| 8 | DIDEROT ( 1713–84 ) is the most solid of the three great intellectuals of 18th-century France ; he is also the least known . |
| 9 | The LWP has been the most political of the East European Warsaw Pact armies , because it is in Poland that the political authorities have been weakest . |
| 10 | In the most possible of the hotels — it goes by the name of Toppin — all the rooms are taken by seven o'clock . |
| 11 | This , the most far-reaching of the bill 's proposals , would have resulted in the prohibition of over 300 pesticides . |
| 12 | What was to prove the most far-reaching of the changes introduced in the July 1951 cabinet was the elevation to ministerial rank of Admiral Carrero Blanco 's position as director of the office of the head of government ; and the one which best exemplified the combination of new and old , change and ossification , was the creation of a Ministry of Information and Tourism . |
| 13 | Primitive Methodists , the most rural of the four leading denominations , built a total of 660 chapels between 1890 and 1901 and the average cost was £1 , 151. |
| 14 | In the spring of 1907 , when he began the preparatory sketches for the Demoiselles , Picasso was already establishing his reputation as one of the most outstanding of the younger figures in contemporary French painting . |
| 15 | The most liquid of the market loans are money at call and short notice lent to the discount houses . |
| 16 | John McIlroy , most persistent of the critics , argues that |
| 17 | LIFFE 's membership is widely representative of the financial services industry . |
| 18 | He is helped by some good performances , too , especially from Danny Webb as the cleverest and most conscience-racked of the sales force . |
| 19 | The chain , now with six shops in London and one in Manchester , has always been a pioneer , bringing to the UK the most innovative of the continent 's labels . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Presidency devolved upon Pascal-Trouillot , the most junior of the 12 Supreme Court justices , after her colleagues had declined to accept the post . |
| 22 | Scientists talk in terms of ‘ generations ’ of computers , and the most advanced of the machines in operation at the moment are of the fourth generation . |
| 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 | They still guard the interests of the smallest and most protectionist of the country 's auctioneers who would be bankrupted by an open market . |
| 25 | I hold him down , Nathan operates the most stable of the head torches , Odd-Knut operates the needle and thread and Tony takes the photographs . |
| 26 | As for Unix , that is a time-tested , used and abused system that is one of the most stable of the platforms currently available ’ he says . |
| 27 | It seemed to be the most stable of the six tested . |
| 28 | She battled her way to the last eight finalists of the 28th European Open Karate Championships , taking on 32 of the world 's best female karate exponents . |
| 29 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 30 | Among EC ministers most supportive of the Commission 's plan yesterday was the British Foreign Secretary , John Major , attending his first EC Council meeting . |