Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | successfully complete and gain a mark of at least 40% in the centre set , HCIMA approved , examination relating to the area of study . |
| 2 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 3 | John Wain 's The Contenders ( 1958 ) ends with the most resonant and decorous of all English four-letter words , ‘ home ’ , and the emphasis on a familiar term is the concluding point of the novel : ‘ In English I said ‘ Home ’ . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of these five tools , tests are the most controversial and the least used in Britain . |
| 6 | She has been one of the liveliest , most controversial and forthright MPs at Westminster during her ten years in the House . |
| 7 | It includes some of the most controversial and most significant for social services . |
| 8 | Of the three methods being considered , this is the most controversial and it has dominated the debate about paying for water . |
| 9 | The final alleged change — that of growing equality within the family-is perhaps the most controversial and the one which is most challenged by contemporary feminist writers who argue that the family is , and continues to be , the major unit sustaining the exploitation and subordination of women . |
| 10 | The decision to use the bomb remains the most controversial and probably the most important of the Second World War . |
| 11 | Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury has the kind of reputation that suggests even the switchboard ought to answer with ‘ Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury — the most controversial and innovative agency in Britain ’ . |
| 12 | It 's actually and that 's the most absorbent time , your mind 's most absorbent where you 're up to the age of five which is when you should when you 're at nursery school . |
| 13 | When artificially illuminated from below , the effect of the countershading is reversed — the trumpet fish looks strikingly solid and highly conspicuous . |
| 14 | She speaks of it as a tremendously rich and enlarging experience , ‘ Friendship expressed at its very best , I think ’ . |
| 15 | Lili 's father was tremendously rich until the government sequestered all his property . |
| 16 | This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent . |
| 17 | They did look a little absurd though , with Morrissey 's quiff looming in enormous proportions and Marr 's face speedily reclining behind a blossoming mop of fringe . |
| 18 | I could n't wait to get to grips with the famous putter and was duly grateful that the Friday afternoon traffic was reasonably light , with fewer than usual kamikaze lorry drivers about . |
| 19 | But this is most unnecessary and cruel too . |
| 20 | Also , status may form the basis of political power — Weber saw this as especially relevant in the case of the German Junker aristocracy , who were economically weak but still held the reins of political power . |
| 21 | In any case Napoleon III was not worried by Austria ; economically weak and diplomatically isolated as a result of her erratic policy during the Crimean War , she was no threat to France . |
| 22 | When we looked out the sea-gulls did seem to be weaving in and out and making rather strange but happy sounds — almost as if they were a bit tipsy — and as it turned out , such was the case . |
| 23 | It is rather strange that so little attention has been given so far to the mechanical properties of biological materials , though perhaps in human terms it is understandable . |
| 24 | However , it seemed rather strange that Shipton , a man with enormous powers of observation , should have failed to notice such an important recording of ancient life . |
| 25 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 26 | It seems rather strange that , if one does one 's job well , one 's opportunities are reduced . |
| 27 | But it 's rather strange and er certainly not distance measure but it is a it is a measure . |
| 28 | But I personally feel that these two books are not just blood and gore , for they both actually have deep , rather strange and mysterious story lines , and not the usual one of an horrific axe-murderer ! |
| 29 | I 'd like to see erm there is still in this country a reluctance on the part of erm the lower social and economic class children and families to continue in education erm This leads to a position in which , a situation in which in , in the workplace and elsewhere the educated person is still regarded as a , as a sort of rather strange and alien minority person . |
| 30 | But you are also very funny and strippingly caustic and not too ruthful about what seems contemptible to you , or tiresome . |