Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The larger the size of A in units of h the more rapid will be the variation and the more sweeping the resulting cancellations . |
| 2 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 3 | To the visitor who approaches the south side of the palace today from the harbour of Split the once magnificent south wall and colonnade are disappointing and a clearer idea of the original splendour of this elevation can be gained from Robert Adam 's drawing made in 1764 before the shops were built in front of it at ground level . |
| 4 | After successive days of heavy rain , the hollows before mentioned , become insufficient to receive the mighty volume of water which descends from the impending clouds upon them , and the maddening torrents are hurled from their rugged elevation with the awful roar of thunder : the grey rocks , occasionally tinted by pervading lichens , and still more beautifully enriched by many greened mosses resembling cushions of soft velvet , produce combinations of colour the most animated and superb , which , contrasted with the milky hue of the convulsed waters , form a picture of transcendent sublimity and beauty . ’ |
| 5 | Such a view tends to place less emphasis on the war between two countries and more on the internal conflict between the king of France and the duke of Aquitaine , a struggle between two blocks of territory and two rather different legal traditions : the ‘ Angevin empire ’ , once ruled by the English , representing the area of customary law and local independence , the other part of France the more centralising tradition based on Roman law . |
| 6 | Should the entry qualification be to do with difficult behaviour rather than severity , or is required level of care the most important factor ? iii Low expectations and reduced social stimulation from other residents may lead to impaired performance in dementia , hastening the decline iv Segregated units may become stigmatized , and be unattractive to prospective residents and relatives v Staff recruitment may be more difficult , and staff turnover may be higher vi A unit may find itself looking after an increasingly disabled group In response to the increasing numbers of dementia sufferers in every type of service for the elderly , we saw five different ways of dealing with the integration/segregation issue . |
| 7 | Heat can be applied in several forms and by several methods with a variety of equipment the more common of which are as follows- . |
| 8 | It might seem obvious that , if one is studying word-meanings , one ought to find native speakers ' intuitions concerning the meanings of words the most informative . |
| 9 | In the majority of studies the most frequently used drugs have been thiazide diuretics and beta-blocking agents . |
| 10 | Choosing the most appropriate things to eat and in the case of man the most effective materials for tools and weapons is adaptive in the sense that it makes for biological survival : organisms which practise the keenest discrimination flourish at the expense of those less discriminating in their choices . |
| 11 | This makes Birds of Prey the most comprehensive ‘ plane-wise ’ flight simulator on the market . |
| 12 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 13 | It was observed that the relief workers competed for passengers with low numbers , since these refugees would leave their countries of transit the soonest . |
| 14 | Khrushchev 's remodelling of the Armed Forces — his restructuring of individual services , reductions in the size of the Ground Forces , and the enforced retirement of field grade officers — provoked controversy throughout the services and a considerable degree of resentment The more significant fact , however , is the Khrushchev 's Politburo colleagues took issue with the ham-fisted and idiosyncratic character of these measures — and , in addition , faulted Khrushchev for similar methods in agriculture and in the restructuring of the Party — State bureaucracies . |
| 15 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 16 | Thus if the plan is to send out a release on a new range of products the most useful sections can be immediately picked out of the list . |
| 17 | In recounting his hero 's feats of ratiocination ( a word he invented ) he had an anonymous , somewhat credulous , narrator following him everywhere and asking the sort of questions the reasonably intelligent reader might want to ask ; the original Watson . |
| 18 | However , the greater the ease of capture the more difficult it becomes to explain why the Earth has a large satellite but not Venus , Mercury and Mars . |
| 19 | In fact due to the nature of recursion the backwards pointers are not required . |
| 20 | Again the signal as to how to behave is given to drivers entering the area by remodelling junctions at the point of entry the before/after pair of illustrations show the treatment of the Konopkastrasse/main road intersection by reducing turning space , lowering light poles , emphasizing cycle lanes and planting greenery . |
| 21 | From the learner 's point of view the most valuable part of this book consists of the 49 problems and answers . |
| 22 | You can access a pop-up calculator , a notepad facility that can be called up each time you execute the program and , from a reviewers point of view the most appealing , you can access the manual at any time during the running of the program . |
| 23 | From our point of view the most important types of physical equilibria are phase equilibria — that is , the equilibria that exist between the phases of a system . |
| 24 | The longer the lapse of time the less your chance of success , but ferrets can live for a considerable period within a burrow system — as much as three weeks . |
| 25 | The latter may provide a good approximation to actual savings behaviour , but in this section we consider for purposes of contrast the rather different approach based on individual life-cycle savings decisions , discussed at some length in Lecture 3 . |
| 26 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 27 | The buyer naturally has the opposite concern and , in the absence of a formal back to back contract , when one is dealing with standard conditions of purchase the best that can be accomplished is to incorporate a provision like cl 1.3 of Precedent 2 , which notifies the seller of the possibility of prime contracts , and attempts to impose their terms upon the seller , coupled with an opportunity for the seller to examine them and a warning that they will apply , even if not examined . |
| 28 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
| 29 | For full details of performances the fortnightly publication ‘ What 's On ’ is available from most hotels and the Tourist Board in Amsterdam . |
| 30 | Having stated the objectives and set in motion a chain of actions the most important management function is to check the result , a comparison between performance required and actually achieved . |