Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The screws , it seemed , had picked out the eight most troublesome in the house , most of which were YCs . |
| 2 | That most terrible of the stories of divine punishment out of all mortal proportion to the offence appears often in the fifth century , like the punishment of Act aeon , and evidently had a powerful meaning for the time . |
| 3 | The paintings illustrate the notable moments of his forty years of life , including that most singular to the Filipinos , the bringing of Christianity to their islands . |
| 4 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 5 | The health authority , one of the 30 most efficient in the country , is consulting on third-wave trust status because it believes that it can give a better service to patients and local people on that basis . |
| 6 | Yet not half so tiresome as a February expedition across the fens . |
| 7 | I nearly got up ad went away out of pity , I found this so unpleasant in a slip of a child . |
| 8 | Nor is this entirely bluff on the part of the firebelly . |
| 9 | Ndlovu is already a national hero in Zimbabwe after becoming their youngest ever international at the age of 15 . |
| 10 | Criminal Chinatown gangs , some also involved in the drugs business or in extortion , make sure the smuggled humans pay up . |
| 11 | But for the first 10 years , HCFC-141B is about half as damaging to the ozone layer as the CFC . |
| 12 | Yet it is condemned by some as inflexible to the point where it can not be a curriculum for all children . |
| 13 | The regime 's opponents criticized this as inappropriate for a country where 70 per cent of the people lived in abject poverty and where less than 15 per cent of the 12,000,000 inhabitants were Catholic . |
| 14 | If the query is of a complicated or technical nature it is quite acceptable to pass it on to the expert , but is this really necessary for a bar of soap or a DIY fitting ? |
| 15 | Of course , there are many more very good rose growers around the country , some relatively new on the scene , just as many old and respected names have moved aside for one reason and another . |
| 16 | Professor Head makes this quite clear in the contrast he makes between Larry 's former profession and his own : |
| 17 | King John , knowing full well Sir Hugo 's ‘ thing about his bald spot ’ and considering this pretty cheap at the price , gave the request the Royal thumbs up . |
| 18 | Jesus made all this very plain in the story about the ‘ Sheep and the Goats ’ . |
| 19 | Not exactly , because this very mimicry of the dominant , be it a literary trope or cultural actuality , involved a scandalous inversion . |
| 20 | Is this too hot with the fire on ? |
| 21 | As the sphere becomes superconducting , surface currents are set up producing a magnetic flux opposite to that already existing inside the material . |
| 22 | Does this also mean that a different kind of art history will be added to that already existing in the West ? |
| 23 | The jaw appears to be depressed just distal to the apex . |
| 24 | The story would have sunk most politicians yet , six months later , Mr Yeltsin is the front runner for the post of president of the Russian federation — a post which , according to the logic of Mr Gorbachev 's decentralising reforms , will become the second most important in the country . |
| 25 | However , the company 's activities may already have done irreversible damage to the park , which has been identified as the second most important in the world for bird life , with 10 per cent of all species . |
| 26 | In Aceh Province ( northern Sumatra ) hundreds of people were reported killed and hundreds more missing as a result of fighting between the armed forces and separatist rebels . |
| 27 | It is likely to occur to an individual directly concerned with the problem . |
| 28 | The Thatcher government came to power in 1979 deeply suspicious of the size of the public sector and the levels of public expenditure . |
| 29 | " That income shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be the income of that individual for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts " — the individual ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom can be chargeable under the section whether or not he receives the income . |
| 30 | Before the provision can apply , an individual ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom must receive a benefit and that individual must not be liable to tax under s739 . |