Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UDCs are the most controversial of the urban innovations , and are given separate consideration later in this chapter . |
| 2 | I was lucky to halve the match with her , and this flattering result was mostly due to a fortuitous birdie on the last hole , where I holed a pitch and run shot from short of the green . |
| 3 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 4 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 5 | ‘ I like the walrus best ’ , … ‘ because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters . ’ |
| 6 | I felt a little sorry for the old fellow . |
| 7 | She 'd feel a little sorry for the little girl if she blacked out in the race and fell under all those hooves . |
| 8 | The Association is most grateful to the Rococo Group for their work in producing an excellent book and to all those who contributed to it and supported its sales . |
| 9 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 10 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 11 | I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind opening remarks . |
| 12 | I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his statement and endorsement of the policy under which the security arrangements are conducted within the Province and for his reference to the rule of law . |
| 13 | Central Council is most grateful for the generous support that has led to this successful outcome . |
| 14 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 15 | Death must represent one of the strongest impingements of reality , and perhaps the most confusing for the confused self . |
| 16 | At later stages of preservation , the predator assemblages may be further biased by water transport or weathering , so that the end result can be most confusing to the would-be palaeoecologist . |
| 17 | They seemed to be mostly line-and-wash with an occasional burst of colour , and even when I got close to them I found I had to concentrate to see what they were about . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It must be most trying under the present pressures . ’ |
| 20 | Although rendered rather unnecessary by the current spell of good weather , the usual rainy summer season should see a warm welcome for a new climbing wall opened in norther Snowdonia . |
| 21 | In the spring of 1907 , when he began the preparatory sketches for the Demoiselles , Picasso was already establishing his reputation as one of the most outstanding of the younger figures in contemporary French painting . |
| 22 | Maggie thought Phoebe did it deliberately ; Phoebe was normally rather well-dressed in a casual sort of way , and had the best fitting proper designer jeans and lovely hand-knitted posh jumpers ; she had plenty of skirts and frequently wore them . |
| 23 | The point has therefore now been made with three examples that it is usually carbonate facies that are so remarkably persistent in a lateral sense . |
| 24 | Apart from the fact that the writing is rather sloppy in a pompous sort of way , it seems to me that the whole exercise was not worthwhile . |
| 25 | He is perhaps most Spanish in the mystical emotion at the heart of such motets as ‘ Emendemus in melius ’ and ‘ O crux , ave ’ . |
| 26 | If you are one of those going on the Course you will have already received a letter stating the balance of fees , travel , insurance etc. due by the 15th April with a reminder that a contribution will be required in DM 's from those travelling in the coach from Frankfurt to Coburg . |
| 27 | It is quite possible that that arrangement is the one that is most conducive to the public good . |
| 28 | LIFFE 's membership is widely representative of the financial services industry . |
| 29 | During that first year in Fontanellato I was obliged to join the most junior of the Fascist organizations and became a Piccola Italiana , a little Italian . |
| 30 | Measurement , and the reason why Lazarsfeld was so insistent on developing a social research format that permitted even a modest level of quantification , is one of the procedures that facilitates the mathematisation of theory , a feature which is the hallmark of the most advanced of the natural sciences , such as physics . |