Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some approach the canonical figure of Degas with a frontal attack on the patriarchal structure of art history itself ( most vocally expressed by the feminist critiques of Pollock and Callen ) , others offer more tentative snipes at aspects and details of individual works . |
| 2 | To follow this argument in more detail , it is worth turning to the product which is most intimately associated with the earliest period of the industrial revolution , that is cotton cloth . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , these developments have been most widely exploited among the developed countries where the barriers to integration have been least . |
| 4 | However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public . |
| 5 | The most widely sold of the French salami in the UK are the plump , sweet Jesus de Lyon and the Arles , from the gastronomically famed region of that name . |
| 6 | It is perhaps this dilemma that causes most disagreement among protesters and it is therefore the one most effectively used by the governmental authorities to weaken their position . |
| 7 | The smallest and most strikingly coloured of the true geese , with a very small bill , chestnut throat , breast and face patch , and rest of plumage black with white lines , including broad one on flanks conspicuous at a distance . |
| 8 | In the smallest yet most intensely populated of the two main lowland regions , the St. Lawrence , lies the city of Montreal , an island in the St. Lawrence River itself . |
| 9 | Leaving aside the relics of the African slave-trade ( now illegal and rather effectively strangled by the British navy ) , the bulk of international migrants were Europeans , or more accurately in this period western Europeans and Germans . |
| 10 | The thorax of the large-eyed trilobite is remarkably long compared with the average trilobite ( compare Fig. 33 ) . |
| 11 | Among these are its smoothness and coolness to the touch , a degree of translucency , and colours ranging from the white most highly esteemed by the Chinese to the various shades of green , yellow , orange , red , blue , mauve and black imparted by mineral components . |
| 12 | This is one of the largest , most effective , and most highly reputed of the global inter-headhunter associations , with over 100 consultants in 29 offices in seventeen countries including Australia and Japan . |
| 13 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |
| 14 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 15 | This awareness is most obviously manifested by the frequent appearance of press reports on ozone depletion , on the greenhouse effect and possible global warming , on nitrate pollution , on deforestation in the Tropics , on decreasing biological diversity and on many other environmentally related topics . |
| 16 | Bridget Hill maintains that wife-beating was common through all levels of society , though it was rather better concealed among the affluent [ Hill , 199–200 ] . |
| 17 | Earlier Soviet statements in the 1980s only rarely referred to the Soviet interest ‘ in having Afghanistan remain a neutral and non-aligned state and its good neighbour ’ ( my emphasis ) . |
| 18 | In particular , it has a lower jaw so loosely connected with the upper that it can be pushed forward like a long narrow spoon . |
| 19 | She was a retired hospital nurse and Mark had often wondered why her noble profession , so intimately connected with the great events of life , should have made her so petty-minded . |
| 20 | For one corporeal hereditament to fall within the curtilage of another the former must be so intimately associated with the latter as to lead to the conclusion that the former in truth forms part and parcel of the latter ( Methuen-Campbell v Walters ) . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , when it came to seeking allies in Congress , Carter 's position was much weakened , first , by the fact that so few members had any reason to be grateful to the president for their election and , second , because he had so conspicuously run against the existing political order which included , of course , Congress . |
| 22 | Thus , being so paradoxically evaluated by the external structures of their culture , women themselves suffer from an ambiguity about their sexuality and menstruation . |
| 23 | The industries which used to provide employment for inner city residents have either died or long since gone to the new towns or to green field sites and industrial estates on the outskirts of the towns . |
| 24 | Takamine have long since featured in the upper echelon of electro-acoustic manufacturers and this guitar enters the range in the mid to upper price bracket . |
| 25 | The plant and the soil it grew in have long since spilled from the toppled pot and been washed away in the winter rains . |
| 26 | Among other signs of this is a lecture on Byron for the Germania and , during the same period , a remarkable " letter to a friend " in praise of Hölderlin , who was at this time little read Concomitantly , he felt great enthusiasm for Shakespeare , long since appropriated by the German Romantics as an honorary ancestor . |
| 27 | The Incarnation became a way of instructing the poor and ignorant in truths long since grasped by the wise and philosophically educated ! |
| 28 | Many of the nationalists had long since passed beyond the kin-village axis . |
| 29 | The very impurity which the radical humanist seeks to transcend , only despairingly to rediscover at the very centre of his or her being — this impurity , for the fantasies of transgressive reinscription , is not the ground of its failure but the material upon which it works . |
| 30 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |