Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | YOUR VERY OWN MANAGER There has been a surge recently in the number of smaller fund management companies keen to take on private clients |
| 32 | There are more than 200 stockbroking firms eager to take on private clients , ranging from the independent , old-fashioned type of broker through to some of the larger international firms or subsidiaries of the clearing banks . |
| 33 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 34 | Hang on eight at eight at what ? |
| 35 | Five six , seven , I say again seven , no I 'm not , hang on eight , I 'm twenty eight , two hundred and eighty thousand there |
| 36 | The festival is also screening POISON , one of the most controversial American films for a long time , which has caused storms of protest in the States and will be a film that has everyone talking . |
| 37 | He was also a disciple of Ezra Pound , more ( one suspects ) because Pound was ‘ the most controversial , dynamic and stimulating figure in modern literature , ’ than for personal rapport between the two men . |
| 38 | Such freedom is one of the most controversial areas in the scheme . |
| 39 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 40 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 41 | Davies had become the most controversial player of this tournament . |
| 42 | But the most controversial part of the bill relates to unofficial strikes , a legacy of the one-day summer stoppages on the London Underground . |
| 43 | One of the most controversial — and praised — bosses in American industry , he now wants to make his firm ‘ boundary-less ’ . |
| 44 | So far so good — but this still left me with what was to prove the most controversial part of the whole social security review . |
| 45 | One of New York 's most controversial ( and successful ) artists has now teamed up with Italy 's most controversial MP , Cicciolina . |
| 46 | One of New York 's most controversial ( and successful ) artists has now teamed up with Italy 's most controversial MP , Cicciolina . |
| 47 | He was beaten half a length in probably the most controversial big Flat race run in England in the 1980s . |
| 48 | But the most controversial feature of the broadcast was the inclusion of the telephone number of Labour 's headquarters . |
| 49 | The most controversial issue the Association handled was Harris Tweed where there was a sharp conflict between competing commercial interests . |
| 50 | The story is long , complicated and just a part of one of the most controversial and problematic developments in the creation of the English canal system , a story admirably told in Charles Hadfield 's The Canals of the East Midlands and more fully still in Philip Stevens ' The Leicester Line . |
| 51 | One of the most controversial religious works of the 1960s , John Robinson 's Honest to God , is a well-written and clear introduction ( from a Christian perspective ) to the problem of defining what God is , and the difficulty of bringing together theological description , popular imagery and the language of worship . |
| 52 | The Cornish investigations proved by far the most controversial . |
| 53 | It is perhaps hardly surprising then that , faced with this kind of system in operation , councillors in Derbyshire and elsewhere should fight back with their own Realpolitik and hit where they think the effect will be most controversial . |
| 54 | The miners ' strike will give us an opportunity to discuss the militarization of the police , one of the most noticeable as well as one of the most controversial trends of recent years . |
| 55 | Of these five tools , tests are the most controversial and the least used in Britain . |
| 56 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 57 | And , what is more , I would have instructed the ministers , as far as the Prime Minister can instruct another minister , to take the decisions in their committees and only bring the really most controversial aspects of particular bills to Cabinet . |
| 58 | The most controversial goal ever seen at Wembley had been scored . |
| 59 | It has emphasised its continued support for Green Belts , although much of the most controversial development is taking place in areas outside them , and appears to be responding to the fears of its backbenchers about the electoral disadvantages of apparently condoning the wholesale ‘ concreting over ’ of southern England . |
| 60 | Johnstone 's defence lawyer was none other than Joe Beltrami , champion of the legal underdog and a lawyer who enjoyed a virtual monopoly on Scotland 's most controversial court-cases . |