Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 2 | It is hard to believe that any fall in Polly Peck-owned Vestel 's share price could be mostly due to the Gulf crisis |
| 3 | We are most grateful to the Japan Festival in Northern Ireland for this event . |
| 4 | The Association is most grateful to the AOC Air Cadets and the Director of the Girls Venture Corps for permitting their respective Corps to provide this much appreaciated help . |
| 5 | I am most grateful to the Area Chairmen in the North East , Tayside , the Highlands and in London for their counsel and support . |
| 6 | I am most grateful to the Area Chairmen in Tayside , the Highlands and in London for their continuing counsel and support . |
| 7 | We are most grateful to the Savoy Hotel for their generous support of this event each year . |
| 8 | The most liquid of the market loans are money at call and short notice lent to the discount houses . |
| 9 | He is helped by some good performances , too , especially from Danny Webb as the cleverest and most conscience-racked of the sales force . |
| 10 | The news followed a Financial Times report that discussions were believed to have been under way for several weeks with a number of prospective buyers , but were most advanced with the US foods and tobacco giant , Philip Morris . |
| 11 | I hold him down , Nathan operates the most stable of the head torches , Odd-Knut operates the needle and thread and Tony takes the photographs . |
| 12 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 13 | I left school a stone overweight while my father was already dead due to a heart attack at the age of 59 . |
| 14 | The enormous growth and prosperity of both Bristol and Liverpool in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were almost wholly due to the slave trade . |
| 15 | Earlier this month a mass demonstration by radical green activists brought the yard to a standstill for a day and forced management into a face to face meeting with protestors where they claimed to be keenly supportive of the rainforest environment |
| 16 | Our guide was a tall , bespectacled chap in his late thirties , looking properly Anglo with a tweed cap , and a muffler around his neck . |
| 17 | Taylor , who had proved the most obdurate of the faction leaders at all stages of the ceasefire negotiations , was reported to feel angry and cheated over the Lomé agreement . |
| 18 | James Shirley 's Triumph of Peace ( also 1634 ) , with music by William Lawes and Simon Ives ( 1600–22 ) , and William Davenant 's Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour ( 1635 ) , with music by both Lawes brothers , were the most celebrated of the Caroline court masques . |
| 19 | Tom Meredith , the Austin , Texas company 's chief financial officer told Dow Jones & Co that with long-term interest rates at historical lows , he is keenly interested in a debt deal . |
| 20 | The ‘ property world ’ , ‘ financial landowners ’ and finance capital in general , were keenly interested in the development opportunities offered by the reconstruction of the UK 's Victorian town centres . |
| 21 | Benjamin seemed most interested in the charcoal braziers and sifted with his boot amongst the white ashes of the fire but , muttering to himself , claimed he could discover nothing untoward . |
| 22 | ‘ After I win , I 'll take on some of the opponents Eubank has beaten , and do a better job , ’ said Piper . |
| 23 | William Parker takes on some of the baritone material with unabashed lyricism and plangency , leaving Elly Ameling to bring refreshing charm and beauty of tone to the soprano Mélodies . |
| 24 | One of the most brutal of the Khmer Rouge commanders , he is known as the ‘ Butcher of Kampuchea ’ for the killings he ordered in the south-west from 1975 to 1978 . |
| 25 | By 1907 , she was the madam of the most luxurious of the Dublin brothels , and she had travelled extensively across Europe . |
| 26 | Colman 's film credits are a roll-call of Hollywood movies at their prewar and most Anglophile best : Bulldog Drummond ( 1929 ) , Raffles ( 1930 ) , Cynara ( 1932 ) , Clive of India ( 1935 ) , A Tale of Two Cities ( 1935 ) , Under Two Flags ( 1936 ) , Lost Horizon ( 1937 ) , and The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) , all establishing Colman as one of the richest and most reliable of the Hollywood raj , the man on whom a whole later generation of expatriates , led by David Niven [ q.v. ] , modelled themselves and their officer-and-gentlemanly acting careers . |
| 27 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 28 | The platform staff are the most public of the Transport Department 's employees ; currently c. 400 are employed , augmented annually by 150 seasonal staff . |
| 29 | I am — was — a doctor , first-generation professional class ; as you see , there 's no moustache , though I have the military past which men of my age could n't avoid ; I live in Essex , most characterless and therefore most acceptable of the Home Counties ; whisky , not gin ; no tweed at all ; and no boating . |
| 30 | Once again , however , that is not to say that the public 's post-appeal awareness of the essential contents of the P.C.A. documents must be regarded as wholly immaterial to the balancing exercise this court is now required to perform and to that too we shall return . |