Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not every author who has something to say on the subject of post-war sexual morality is included in the following discussion of each of the five categories , but rather those who are considered to be most representative of each genre are discussed . |
| 2 | This point was particularly underlined by the Chairman , QC , when he stressed the importance of the role and profile of this Committee , as the most representative of Committees within the Bar Council . |
| 3 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 4 | UDCs are the most controversial of the urban innovations , and are given separate consideration later in this chapter . |
| 5 | This has always been the most controversial of Toscanini 's NBC opera recordings . |
| 6 | The most controversial of these responsibilities involves the compulsory removal from home of an elderly person under Section 47 of that same Act . |
| 7 | He called for the raising of the national minimum wage ; a Full Employment Act ; a national conservation scheme ; a programme of public works ; national control over atomic energy ; and , most controversial of all , a national health service . |
| 8 | The most controversial of outside evaluations involving outcome measurements are testing programmes and public examination results . |
| 9 | The most controversial of all the legacies the eighteenth-century reformers bequeathed to their successors was the subordination of the Church as a political , economic , educational , and charitable institution to the supremacy of the State . |
| 10 | A set of constitutional amendments adopted by the Estonian Supreme Soviet proved most controversial of all . |
| 11 | Policy discussions at ministerial level appeared to focus mainly on the hoary old issues of which agency should take lead responsibility , ’ but finally , in 1989 , the government took a decision which was considered unthinkable only a year earlier , that is , that local authority social services departments should be given lead responsibility for community care and for all services including mental health , but with some additional controls added in the latter case , the single most controversial of Griffiths ' proposals . |
| 12 | The volcanic history of that event does not need restatement here , but the complexity of the stratal history makes this part of the column both the most confusing and the most controversial of all . |
| 13 | One of the most controversial of these is regret theory , of which Professor Sugden was one of the first formulators . |
| 14 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 15 | The most controversial of these was the proposed reduction of capital gains tax , a measure which Congress had previously rejected . |
| 16 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 17 | And perhaps most controversial of all , the Greens will tackle what they see as the scourge of the motor car : |
| 18 | Nothing inadequate about his physical acting but his voice was his asset , the driest , most pungent of sherries at the command , so often , of Shakespeare 's verse , utterly lacking the fruitiness and histrionics of so many over-tired classical actors of his generation . |
| 19 | Always one of the most emotional of players , she has many times used her frustration during matches to entertain . |
| 20 | The exiled Leon Trotsky was calling for the overthrow of Stalin , then engaged in his most murderous of purges . |
| 21 | The British establishment has become rather touchy of late about arms dealers , embarrassed by a series of press revelations about shady deals being done in London . |
| 22 | In the long term , this final measure was the most momentous of all . |
| 23 | They make their home in cliffs , in rocks , in high places — virtually everywhere , in fact — and have the ability to wrest their food from even the most inhospitable of locations . |
| 24 | As a result , the social responsibility theory was born ; newspapers remained the property of their owners , they could still be bought and sold in the marketplace , but owners and newspapers were now credited with obligations to society — obligations to provide information , to allow a diversity of views to be printed , to encourage the best and most professional of journalistic activity so as to pursue truth and knowledge ( Table 2.1 ) . |
| 25 | And he himself told me that the Lord Willington Nursing Home is the most professional of the local nursing homes . |
| 26 | One of the most telling of such examples occurs in the account of Jesus 's arrest in Gethsemane . |
| 27 | Perhaps the most telling of such echoes is that between the stallion 's ecstatic animal cry of " " wehee " " as it races off towards the mares ( 4066 ) and Alisons 's gleeful cry of " " tehee " " after making such a fool , in her way , of Absolon ( 3740 ) . |
| 28 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 29 | It was truly the most absurd of happenings . |
| 30 | Another symptom is writing numbers or letters backwards — again a common enough thing to do when a child is learning to write , particularly if he or she is left-handed , or perhaps dyslexic ; and probably most absurd of all , children who refer to television characters as real people are showing signs of abuse . |