Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 2 | For the second most important place in the Government , that of Foreign Secretary , he initially chose J. H. Thomas , a man of coarse speech and coarser wit who had demonstrated his administrative talents in directing a succession of railway strikes . |
| 3 | There is therefore a real need for the adequate provision of residential homes catering for long stay mentally handicapped children , and an equal need that such homes offer the right type of care for the young mentally handicapped child . |
| 4 | As they got older they accompanied their parents in the evening too , running as fast as they could go for fear of being late for the six o'clock open air meeting in one of the streets . |
| 5 | The result is that many glider pilots are becoming complacent about parking and on a really windy day it is not unusual to see gliders at risk , just waiting for the first really big gust of wind to blow them over . |
| 6 | This is not necessary for the new more mature NVQ students . |
| 7 | The basic conventions for the four most common punctuation marks are : The FULL STOP ( also called a PERIOD or FULL POINT ) Put a full stop ( . ) |
| 8 | The need to give attention to the social aspects of the school environment for the integrated visually handicapped pupil should not be underestimated . |
| 9 | In fact , there 's a tie between these two concerns and health for the sixth most important concern in men 's lives . |
| 10 | My own choice for the single most influential factor would be the decision of the Hungarian Government to subordinate its very clear obligations under an agreement with the GDR to its general duty under the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 — a decision which blew a hole in the sealed frontiers of the GDR , and relegated to the past the comfortable slogans of the last three decades . |
| 11 | ‘ The man who dreamed of toppling the Deutschmark carries the responsibility for the single most disastrous day in our post-war economic history , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The Coca-Cola Company , manufacturer of the world 's most popular soft drink , has renewed its backing for the three most important team events in tennis — the Davis Cup by NEC , the Federation Cup by NEC and the NEC World Youth Cup . |
| 13 | Table 4.2 shows that both the total number of moves as well as the proportion of moves to development areas were at their highest during the two most pro-regional policy periods discussed above . |
| 14 | This earned George Mackenzie national fame as the first prelingually deaf person to achieve the distinction of MA Cantab . |
| 15 | Four years later , in the summer of 1953 , the BBC broadcast The Quatermass Experiment , a six part serial by Nigel Kneale , and a landmark as the first popularly accepted science fiction production . |
| 16 | As the economic conditions in many areas became more desperate and the existing ruling élites seemed less and less able or willing to take corrective measures , radical domestic reform , external aggression and colonial possessions were seen by some of the rural poor as the only positively proposed solution to their ills . |
| 17 | Novelty value as the only ever goalkeeping sim , but even the ‘ hand of God ’ could n't save it . |
| 18 | Some theorists regard the discipline it imposes as the only truly effective constraint on managerial discretion and therefore consider its operation to be crucial to the efficiency of the private enterprise economy . |
| 19 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 20 | In the years when Hartley was building Albert Dock and other extensions of the system , Liverpool was rapidly becoming established as the second most important port in Britain , and Albert Dock , which has outlived its usefulness , stands as a monument both to Hartley and to Liverpool 's Victorian prosperity . |
| 21 | The rubber industry was badly affected by the depression of the 1930s , but its position as the second most important export was not threatened . |
| 22 | The binding of items emerged as the second most important reason for their non-availability , accounting for around one in five ( 21% ) of unsatisfied requests , while the Library 's inability to locate items when they were requested ( 10% ) , and a tendency for some readers to submit requests for items not appearing in the Library 's catalogues ( 10% ) were additional reasons which occurred with some frequency . |
| 23 | The new report also casts doubt on the importance of methane , usually cited as the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide . |
| 24 | The Wilhelmshaven dockyard had been , in its day , the largest naval yard in Europe , and is likely to go down as the largest purely naval yard in history . |
| 25 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 26 | He was a champion of 19th century book illustration , which he regarded as the last relatively unexplored corner of the English artistic tradition . |
| 27 | The poll also shows that the communist-led Leftist Unity party — capitalising on the high jobless rate and union unrest — is expected to nearly double its vote from 4.6 percent to 8.7 percent , replacing Adolfo Suarez 's centrist party as the third most powerful force in Spanish politics . |
| 28 | Although the Soviet Union had become the major influence on revolutionary socialist movements since 1917 , the Communist International had always looked upon Germany as the next most likely centre for a proletarian revolution . |
| 29 | ESA 's decision on ISO will probably toll the knell for the Shuttle Infrared Telescope Facility , which many American astronomers have seen as the next most important project for the 1990s after AXAF . |
| 30 | Guns and Killing magazine currently rate her as the sixth most dangerous solo outlaw in the Americas , and she is the highest-ranked woman on the list , coming in at thirty-seven places above the Antarctic esperado Ice Kold Katie . |