Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among that most representative breed of ministers , Moderators , it is even closer to the mark , and without consulting the records I can think of the Very Reverends MacLeod , Fraser , Craig ( Archie ) , Craig ( Robert ) and Reid , as examples . |
| 2 | The most controversial change of auditors of the past two years took place at Prudential Corporation . |
| 3 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 4 | The final and most controversial aspect of Akihito 's accession process , the Daijosai , or Great Food Offering Ritual , was held in the grounds of the Imperial Palace on the night of Nov. 22 . |
| 5 | This is , without doubt , the most controversial aspect of food sensitivity . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes . |
| 7 | Overall levels of education and of skills are lower , our institutions are coping only fitfully with modern conditions and there is an unsafely low level of investment . |
| 8 | Behind his insistence that the intensely hierarchical system of submissions be changed , lay Jenkins 's determination that the Home Secretary had to be allowed sufficient scope to use his political judgment in weighing up alternative courses of action . |
| 9 | ‘ May I observe that this is a rather strange sort of idleness … ’ and he went on to admit that , although it was difficult for him to defend his present way of life , there was purpose in it , even if that purpose was an obscure one . |
| 10 | A rather strange collection of men and women , thought Rupert with an anthropologist 's detachment , none of whom really know each other but between whom waves and currents of feeling are already beginning to pass . |
| 11 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 12 | At the end of 1919 Lenin showed Russian indifference by offering virtually all of Belorussia to Poland in order to stave off a Polish offensive , but the most telling instance of Russia 's attitude had already occurred after the German withdrawal in December 1918 , when the Northwestern Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party held a conference at Smolensk . |
| 13 | The most telling indicator of Railfreight 's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance . |
| 14 | Perhaps the most telling measure of performance comes from a straight comparison with the R25 V6 . |
| 15 | Leapor 's most telling examination of standards of beauty is ‘ Corydon . |
| 16 | ‘ A most telling stream of miracles ’ is related , and the King is recorded as having prophesied ‘ the Satanic horror of all those human rebellions against the Crown which were to rise , no longer in the British Isles , but in America and in France from the end of the XVIII century , and to develop on the Continent as well as in Africa and Asia during the XIX and XX centuries ’ . |
| 17 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 18 | Eleonora herself is the most the most concentrated depiction of evil in Leapor 's writings , an interesting point which unfortunately is missed by Donna Landry . |
| 19 | Cruel , a little , but not savage : Alix could see Hannah smiling gamely , taking it in good part , and wondered if she was also taking in the rather subtle sub-text of allusions to drugs other than nicotine . |
| 20 | It seems likely that responses were sometimes in terms of whether the post was full-time or part-time , and sometimes whether training responsibility was full or part-time , and that this genuinely reflects the rather confusing diversity of titles held by library staff with training responsibilities . |
| 21 | In all the cases I have encountered , despite strenuous efforts to cure it , the latter is unfortunately the most usual course of action . |
| 22 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 23 | The most usual category of finds needing conservation is metalwork , but this can often remain in a stable condition for several months ; on the other hand , finds such as those of wood or leather require immediate conservation on site as they are excavated . |
| 24 | The most usual mode of transmission of type I herpes is kissing , and following exposure a susceptible individual will develop a crop of blisters ( vesicles ) on the lips after about four days . |
| 25 | The most usual area of difficulty is in relation to leasehold properties . |
| 26 | The most usual form of enforcement is the issue of a writ of fieri facias ( fi . |
| 27 | The most usual method of calculation is to determine the net profit of the business ensuring that this amount is the amount of pre-tax and pre proprietor drawings and pre interest charges . |
| 28 | But there is an additional condition : we should be able to see a prominent feature of style as forming a significant relationship with other features of style , in an artistically coherent pattern of choice . |
| 29 | Also , like the writer in the Congregational Year Book he insisted that Gothic architecture was ‘ the most economic style of Chapel Building ’ . |
| 30 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |