Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last requirement is likely to prove one of the most controversial in practice . |
| 2 | You can use it for elaborate and complicated patterns but its quite beautiful just simply knitted for a velvet-like jacket or sweater — tremendously rich in simple black or a deep colour . |
| 3 | The latest official road safety figures released here show that not only are French roads still among the most murderous in Europe but that within France the highest number of dead and injured are on roads in and around Marseilles . |
| 4 | Many people may think I am rather strange in comparing two horror books . |
| 5 | I must tell the House it is probably one of the most momentous in the history of the British Police Service . |
| 6 | By the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 it had become the most professional in Europe . |
| 7 | By comparison with the vast conscript armies of Europe , the BEF was indeed small — ‘ a contemptible little army ’ in the Kaiser 's words — but it was the most professional in the world . |
| 8 | We reckoned that the British Army was the most professional in the world and that it had been influential in training the South African and Israeli armies who we thought took second and third place . |
| 9 | By a farcical inversion of football 's heightened history , Scotland has turned its back on triumph and measures its footballing encounters by the barometers of disaster and The most memorable in Scottish football are defined by calamity rather than magic . |
| 10 | ‘ With luck , it might be the most memorable in their history . ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps in general he should ease up , get a little lower in the mix . |
| 12 | I sink a little lower in the bed hoping for some sleep . |
| 13 | More probable , however , is that Leapor 's female friendships followed the pattern most usual in her time , and that in Bridget Freemantle , Mary Leapor had simply found ’ … a partner in sensibility , a confidante in literature . ’ |
| 14 | Autumn movements or arrival may start as early as August , but is most usual in late October ; most autumn passage is observed in November . |
| 15 | While being of a fairly broadminded and humorous nature myself , I felt the piece to be a little controversial in its standpoint , and also a shade inaccurate . |
| 16 | ‘ I could have been a little hasty in my diagnosis , ’ Arty allowed with an embarrassed smile . |
| 17 | Digital Equipment Corp realises that it may have been a little hasty in taking its toys away in a huff , and has returned to the Technology Plc fold by re-appointing the Warrington-based company as a value-added reseller for predominantly desktop and server products : DEC withdrew its business , when Technology was acquired by ICL Plc in July 1992 ( CI No 1,966 ) ; Technology has now joined DEC 's Corporate Reseller Programme , and , according to DEC UK 's director of complementary solutions organisation sales , Ian Smith , the company is expected to ‘ play a key role in our increasingly value-added reseller-led product selling strategy ’ . |
| 18 | He was an enthusiastic amateur of the best sort , perhaps a little hasty in his attributions . |
| 19 | Ethnic minorities , too , are often strikingly under-represented in such assemblies , or , as in Britain , barely represented at all . |
| 20 | In particular , the ratio is rather lower in Northern Ireland ( 14.5 to 1 ) and especially in Scotland ( 13.0 to 1 ) ( CSO , 1989a , Table 9.1 . |
| 21 | It looked as if she 'd been up in the loft for something , which I suppose was rather rash in her state of health . |
| 22 | And worst of all , I have lost the respect of the person I hold most dear in all the world . ’ |
| 23 | But Mr Soley defended the policy in an interview with the Guardian : ‘ The problem is most acute in rural areas , such as the South-west , where there is a growing problem of ghost villages where 70 per cent of the houses are only occupied at weekends or during the summer , ’ he said . |
| 24 | The problems are most acute in Africa where population pressures are also greatest , though modification of South American savannas is increasing ; desertification is occurring in some areas as a result of overgrazing . |
| 25 | The problem was naturally most acute in the lands where feudalism was most highly developed : in northern France and the Low Countries , in England and south Italy after the Norman conquests , and in Syria after the First Crusade . |
| 26 | This need is currently most acute in relation to the measures aimed at implementing the Social Charter , in that the measures proposed have a more profound effect on the activities and cost structures of companies in the UK than other Member States . |
| 27 | The controversy is most acute in the case of the proposed Investment Services Directive , which , as its name implies , will grant a right of establishment and a right to provide cross-border services to EC firms providing investment services ( brokers and investment managers , for example ) . |
| 28 | That is , they were more highly concentrated in the older staple industries which were in acute and widely recognized need of restructuring , the labour shortage was most acute in some of the highly skilled sectors of these very industries , and their loss would be acutely felt , at least in the short term . |
| 29 | The problems are most acute in the non-advanced sector where many eligible applicants are unable to gain admission to courses leading to vocational qualifications . |
| 30 | Rowntree made a similar discovery in York some ten years later and also showed how poverty dogged the course of the individual life cycle , being most acute in infancy , at the point of family formation and again in old age . |