Example sentences of "[adj -est] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Printed material , in all its diversity of forms , is one of the cheapest and most effective methods for individual instruction about the various aspects of computerized information retrieval . |
| 2 | If you have trees or fences around the pool , the cheapest and most effective deterrent would be heavy-gauge fishing line stretched about seven feet above the pool . |
| 3 | However , the cheapest and most useful solvent for laboratory use is commercial grade acetone . |
| 4 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 5 | If you are importing , the cheapest and most straightforward methods of settlement are by international payments in currency or sterling , and Midland offers three options : Priority Payments , where speed of funds transfer is of paramount importance ; Mail Payments , where there is less urgency ; and Bankers Drafts , which are particularly appropriate for low priority , low value payments . |
| 6 | The cheapest and most readily-available output device is the printer . |
| 7 | Prior to the introduction of these purpose-built auditory churches , existing Gothic church interiors were adapted for Protestant use by the cheapest and most convenient means possible . |
| 8 | The most important crop is grass : it is also by far the cheapest and least laborious to grow and feed . |
| 9 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 10 | By insisting that ‘ with the exception of the instinct of self-preservation , the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper ’ he in effect undermined one of the basic assumptions of ensuing generations of archaeologists and more especially of prehistorians , namely that cultural advance can be adequately accounted for primarily in terms of utility at the level of subsistence and technology . |
| 11 | The theory of bureaucratic authoritarianism ( BA ) elaborated by O'Donnell ( 1979 ) is one of the strongest and most influential challenges to the idea that the TNCs have exerted a benevolent influence on economic and political development , particularly in Latin America . |
| 12 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
| 13 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 14 | Coach Mike Luke is right to stress the positive aspects of the CANZ contacts when he says : ‘ This is the single most important development tour we can undertake and we learned a great deal about some of Canada 's future World Cup players in one of the strongest and most testing environments the game has to offer . |
| 15 | Its destination is a state near to apathy , emptied of most of the strongest and most dangerous human appetites , and therefore relatively harmless . |
| 16 | The Stroicim Inchinn , the ancient forbidden art , sorcery of the strongest and most dangerous kind : the power of one mind over another . |
| 17 | ‘ Baron Samedi , the strongest and most dangerous of all the voodoo houngans . |
| 18 | She would watch the harvesters swinging their scythes through the open corn and , towards the close of day , she would appear in the path of the lad who looked strongest and most virile . |
| 19 | Sotheby 's May sales of fine eighteenth-century French furniture and decorations revealed again that this field remains one of the strongest and most recession-proof areas of the art market . |
| 20 | The conscription of manpower into the armed forces and war-related industries deprived agriculture of the strongest and most able element of its workforce at a time when the production process was still relatively unmechanized . |
| 21 | By far the strongest and most permanent field divisions are stone walls . |
| 22 | Instead of filling up the brandy bottle with water , I had put Mrs Joe 's strongest and most unpleasant medicine in by mistake . |
| 23 | The appeal of religions is not based on evidence , for there is very little , nor on reason , for the reasons offered for faith are unconvincing , but on illusions — ‘ fulfilments of the oldest , strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind ’ . |
| 24 | Often in such cases publicity is done by the person who seems keenest and most likely to succeed . |
| 25 | But he soon became the keenest and most enlightened Italian expounder of the Council , and wrote a pastoral letter for Lent 1962 , Pensiamo al Concilio ( Let's think about the Council ) , that learnedly explains to the Milanese what is going to happen . |
| 26 | I do not recall that that was always his keenest and most enthusiastic point . |
| 27 | One comes back to what most people are agreed on : in the short term the simplest , cheapest , quickest and most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions is to use energy more efficiently , in both homes and factories . |
| 28 | In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority . |
| 29 | Moving Seawitch and herself out of Gibraltar would be the quickest and most effective way of killing public interest . |
| 30 | In my experience this is one of the quickest and most effective ways of drawing children into the drama ; you are helping them to make sense of what they 're doing , you 're showing them clearly that what they 're doing matters . |