Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Take into account the incredibly high standards of service in the excellent hotels and you have every possible ingredient for the ultimate holiday experience .
2 In the predominantly German districts of northwest Pomerania , however , 14 of the 34 districts recorded a decline in their population in the same period .
3 The unity of the ending is a fairy tale happy-ever-after that provides a jolting contrast to the grimly realistic descriptions of misogyny and racial hatred .
4 Dialectal English ; language in which the widely accepted rules of grammar and syntax are not necessarily observed .
5 Much of the discussion took place in the IWC 's scientific committee , which met before the conference proper , with arguments centring on the widely varying estimates of minke numbers .
6 For such results show the police to be ‘ on the side of righteousness ’ , arraigned with the numerically superior forces of goodness and order in their fight against darkness and the void .
7 The various government measures — regional policies , anti-discrimination legislation , etc. — have been far too weak to counter the impact of market forces that affect more adversely the industrially weak groups in society .
8 Karl Marx ( 1919–1993 ) was not only the founder of modern communism but also originated one of the most influential traditions in sociology .
9 One of the most influential types of power is called expert power .
10 One of the most typical structures in classroom dialogue is the teacher asking a question , a pupil responding , and the teacher evaluating the pupil 's response ( Sinclair and Coulthard , 1974 ; Stubbs , 1976 ) .
11 Amidst the highly sophisticated medical research of the Nineties , new interest is being shown in one of the most ancient forms of healing .
12 These reforms represent the most radical changes in education since the 1944 Act .
13 The most radical innovations towards integration that were to come later were initiated outside the framework of the Council and its Committee of Ministers .
14 But I do not believe that these trends fundamentally affect my case , for the most radical criticisms of medicine come , not from such illness groups , but from ‘ minorities ’ who have seen medical dominance as reproducing the class relations which have brought about their oppressed status , e. g. radical women 's movements and black urban Americans .
15 It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science .
16 Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it .
17 A king who drew scholars to his court from afar , surrounded himself with them , sought their help in formulating his edicts , used them as his agents and publicists , was following the example of the most successful rulers of antiquity .
18 We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights .
19 One of the most successful machine-guns of World War I was the American designed , air-cooled , drum-fed Lewis .
20 When a church is in her infancy there will be the most visible signs of growth , as with a child .
21 Gesualdo , after publishing four books of not particularly individual madrigals in the Rore-Wert tradition ( 1594–6 ) , brought out two more in 1611 in which chromatic alteration simultaneously in several parts produces the most extraordinary effects of dislocation ( often alternating with very commonplace diatonic passages ) .
22 Perhaps the most extraordinary examples of animal camouflage are those in which the animals concerned have evolved into mimics of specific details in their backgrounds .
23 During a visit to the hairdresser 's I realized that we women are prepared to put ourselves through the most extraordinary practices in order to improve our image .
24 Critics of the most recent studies of compound 1080 say that they prove only that the chemical is lethal to coyotes — not that it can prevent or significantly decrease predation of flocks .
25 The most recent estimates of employment by parliamentary constituency are from the September 1989 census of employment , when there were 25,100 employees in employment in the Leeds , West constituency .
26 In fact the most recent reconstructions of Viking figures are very carefully based on evidence and are the result of a great deal of lengthy scientific research .
27 To meet these demands , Daintyfit make use of the most recent developments in fabric technology such as ‘ coolmax ’ , which is used in its sports bras to draw moisture from the skin and hold it within the fabric .
28 The most recent trends in family therapy have tended to suggest that seeking merely to increase self- and family awareness may be insufficient to bring about effective change within the family dynamic .
29 The varied articles presented introduce the reader to some of the most recent strands of linguistics and literary studies but they can not be thought to constitute a unified discipline .
30 The programme began in 1973 as an attempt to incorporate the most recent findings about job design into the work organisation , and with the intention of improving the quality of work life .
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