Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 2 | UDCs are the most controversial of the urban innovations , and are given separate consideration later in this chapter . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If anything , they seemed rather receptive to the idea of talking about invasion of the locality by monsters from deep space . |
| 6 | The startling rise is mostly due to the privatisations of state companies , boosted with high-profile advertising and low share prices . |
| 7 | The imbalance is mostly due to the vigour of Brazil 's export industries , its sickly demand for imports and , with respect to Argentina , an under-valued exchange rate . |
| 8 | It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis |
| 9 | For every bright-eyed wagon train or trail blazing adventure , there are a dozen Westerns dealing with lawmen or outlaws who have outlived their times and now find themselves constrained by the pettiness of a civilisation which is rarely grateful for the way they have cleared the ground for its progress . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some of those services used to build up a wonderful feeling , and now and then it would become rather emotional with the preacher calling on folk to come forward to the penitents ' bench at the front to re-dedicate their lives to the Lord . |
| 12 | I must tell the House it is probably one of the most momentous in the history of the British Police Service . |
| 13 | And he himself told me that the Lord Willington Nursing Home is the most professional of the local nursing homes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 17 | But they 'll probably rather annoying at the moment . |
| 18 | Assuming a social code rather nearer to the Confucian than to our own , the man who wants to go to Bali might choose to obey his parents although convinced that to stay in England is both to his own disadvantage and of no real advantage to them . |
| 19 | For parasites whose offspring infect the offspring of their host ( vertical transmission ) , any behaviour by the parasite that decreases the fecundity of its host ( and thereby that of the parasite itself ) is unlikely to be favoured by natural selection . |
| 20 | She 'd feel a little sorry for the little girl if she blacked out in the race and fell under all those hooves . |
| 21 | I felt a little sorry for the old fellow . |
| 22 | ‘ I like the walrus best ’ , … ‘ because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters . ’ |
| 23 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 24 | Perhaps in general he should ease up , get a little lower in the mix . |
| 25 | I sink a little lower in the bed hoping for some sleep . |
| 26 | Break-up of a marriage can have a bitterly ill-effect on the children . |
| 27 | Among the many cathedrals with Norman remains , it is most usual for the nave to be unaltered — the eastern arm and transepts were generally enlarged later to provide more accommodation . |
| 28 | Otherwise the earliest autumn record was 15 October , and arrival was most usual at the end of this month or in November . |
| 29 | The Association is most grateful to the AOC Air Cadets and the Director of the Girls Venture Corps for permitting their respective Corps to provide this much appreaciated help . |
| 30 | 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 . |