Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NICRA was the largest and most representative civil rights organisation but it was only one part of the civil rights movement and the original , pre-October NICRA was swamped by hundreds of new activists and thousands of supporters . |
| 2 | Moreover , as was suggested by Thayer ( 1986 , 1989 ) , the simplest and most representative single overall measures of arousal may be verbal ratings . |
| 3 | It meets at least twice a year to decide the overall political and economic priorities of the EC , to resolve the most controversial outstanding issues within the Community and to discuss world affairs generally . |
| 4 | 1 he corporations have been the most intensive and the most controversial inner-urban English initiative ever devised . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By the mid-seventies this had become one of the most controversial cultural events on the country . |
| 8 | He was beaten half a length in probably the most controversial big Flat race run in England in the 1980s . |
| 9 | Answer two : a crime novel may still be crime fiction , as opposed to pure fiction , even if it abandons altogether that prime staple of blueprint detective fiction , the murder puzzle . |
| 10 | One explanation for this might be that , rather than using this method to bring in temporary labour , service establishments with a predominantly low skilled labour force rely on casual workers . |
| 11 | This series , incidentally , was to introduce English fans to Bishop Ambrose , the most quaintly named fast bowler since Lillian Thomson . |
| 12 | Then he read somewhere that heavy sweating is how the body expels poisons it ca n't get rid of in any other way . |
| 13 | After re-packing her case , she fervently hoped for the last time , she had a wash , and because it looked sunny and warm outside dressed in a skimpy vest with a blouse over the top , and a rather strange Fifties-style skirt covered in poppies . |
| 14 | The swimming mollusc Nautilus , a rather strange squid-like creature that lives in a shell like the extinct ammonites and belemnites ( see the " shelled cephalopod " of Figure 5 ) , has a pair of pinhole cameras for eyes . |
| 15 | Sir , — Surely the most momentous legal opinion of this decade — nay , this century — was that of the VAT Tribunal ( Dr Auto Repair : LON/92/220Y ) which held that ‘ … no accountant is expected to be omniscient ’ ! |
| 16 | THE world of public relations has plenty of detractors but Michael Murphy , the founder and chairman of PR Consultants Scotland , has managed both to make himself wealthy and to run what is widely regarded as Scotland 's most professional home-grown consultancy , as well as its largest . |
| 17 | Lurching into it , with one part lumbered with unlovely council tower blocks up the hill , while nearer the river the developers had arrived , and where once had been a network of tiny streets harbouring some of the most professional criminal families in South London , there were now several expensive blocks of flats : expensive because they faced the river and looked sideways to the old Royal Palace of Greenwich with the trees and slopes of the park behind . |
| 18 | • Most professional male swimmers shave off their body hair to make them more streamlined and thus swim faster . |
| 19 | This awareness of the changing world , and the ability of a consultancy to react to it and prepare for it , separates the most professional public relations practitioners from those who merely regard public relations as getting or suppressing publicity . |
| 20 | The most telling personal images are captured by simple cameras in the hands of people who know nothing about photography . |
| 21 | More probably , however , even the final figures will show large declines — the most telling possible proof of how the exhilaration of being able to read almost anything has been replaced by disillusion at being able to buy almost nothing . |
| 22 | For Italian unions , in this respect , industry bargaining corresponded originally to a need to unite their scarce resources in order to guarantee uniform minimum conditions of work ‘ to an impoverished , fragmented and still mostly agricultural working class , privileging the weak sectors thereof with respect to the elite ’ ( Treu , 1981 , p. 135 ) . |
| 23 | My wife would certainly agree with my hon. Friend 's remarks , as would most right hon. and hon. Members . |
| 24 | In the first place , it is clear that the working class , along with the middle class , was reducing its fertility — although there were one of two exceptions in some of the most depressed industrial towns . |
| 25 | ‘ Thou shalt believe ’ — the most absurd philosophical construct in the whole of human history . |
| 26 | Colourist Maria added golden lights to add texture and movement to her hair , which before had looked rather solid due to its thickness . |
| 27 | However , incredibly strong electrical repulsions keep the nuclei at atom 's length . |
| 28 | When we think of Callas , we think of an incredible musician with an incredibly strong dramatic gift , but there have also been great voices in history and there are some orchestras which are successful with your understanding , at least , because they have this collective voice which impresses you immediately . |
| 29 | Could we get a little discreet sexual interest in , do you think ? |
| 30 | The bile just spews out and , in the character of Cordelia Vaisey , he had created one of his most memorable female monsters , leaving his fellow misogynists trailing far behind . |