Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] " 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 | This last requirement is likely to prove one of the most controversial in practice . |
| 19 | Those demands that have so far been made have come from Slovakia , the most controversial concerning a fourteenth-century Italian Gothic altar . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Owen believes , for example , that lepidopteran populations fluctuate so widely due to entirely natural causes that the use of pesticides had little effect on them — although it does affect ground predators . |
| 22 | If anything , they seemed rather receptive to the idea of talking about invasion of the locality by monsters from deep space . |
| 23 | By contrast with this largesse , however , one area that nowadays seems rather under-represented on our screens is the mainstream cinema of western Europe . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Always one of the most emotional of players , she has many times used her frustration during matches to entertain . |
| 26 | The exiled Leon Trotsky was calling for the overthrow of Stalin , then engaged in his most murderous of purges . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Marjorie turned over in bed with a deep , sobbing sigh , and he felt vaguely and wearily sorry for whatever unhappiness she was feeling in her sleep . |
| 29 | The startling rise is mostly due to the privatisations of state companies , boosted with high-profile advertising and low share prices . |
| 30 | the radiation dose here goes up to 5 Sv and was mostly due to γ-rays . |