Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
| 2 | Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly . |
| 3 | We can imagine a departmental head in a local authority urging his/her staff to be the most efficient and effective , the most caring or the friendliest department . |
| 4 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 5 | For the brilliantly successful or the politically fortunate there are the offices of Attorney-General and Solicitor-General and about 110 superior judgeships , the latter carrying very comfortable stipends , plus pensions . |
| 6 | Only the utterly naïve or the determinedly blind could believe that any government activity near to election time does not have electoral implications . |
| 7 | They recruited their soldiers from the more adventurous or the more unruly on their route . |
| 8 | Apart from the bad , there is another category that might be called the gloriously bad or the awfully bad : one thinks of all those collections of groan-producing puns and nonsensical jokes and riddles . |
| 9 | Professional and managerial households were four times as likely to inherit as were the least skilled or the unemployed . |
| 10 | Age is a vital piece of information for the pharmacist because different strengths and dosages of medicine may be required for the very young or the elderly . |
| 11 | How can we , wanting to help look after bereaved people , be particularly aware of the needs of the very elderly or the very young , when they are coping with the impact of death and grieving on their lives . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that only the very wealthy or the very foolish can afford to go to the libel courts for justice ? |
| 13 | Though it may be the last right remaining for the terminally ill or the aged , it is remarkably easy to undermine it . |
| 14 | Certainly those working with the mentally ill or the handicapped or the senile or in health education may properly think it is . |
| 15 | Private insurance schemes clearly do not wish to become involved with either the mentally ill or the chronically sick . |