Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clearest and harshest expression of this twofold approach ( and one which certainly brings into the open its ultimate presuppositions ) was perhaps the application of the doctrine of predestination in the Federal or Covenant Theology of the seventeenth century as expressed in such classic statements as the Westminster Confession , which for centuries held sway on both sides of the Atlantic as the most widely authoritative summary in English of Reformed orthodoxy . |
| 2 | The most widely accepted definition of tool use is that it is the use of some external object as an extension of the body to attain an immediate objective . |
| 3 | Consequently mortality is the oldest and most widely used index of health status . |
| 4 | The most widely used system of nomenclature of chemical compounds is that recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) . |
| 5 | The most widely used form of treatment is the bell and pad . |
| 6 | The condom is the most widely used form of contraception ( 41% ) , the pill is used by the partner of 31% of our sample , while such devices as the coil and diaphragm appear to have lost whatever popularity they once enjoyed . |
| 7 | Two months later the Ashleys hired their most professionally qualified applicant to date in the retail sector , Liza Wanklyn , an American living in Paris , had graduated from design school and had worked for Jean Muir and Givenchy before applying to join ‘ Laura Ashley ’ . |
| 8 | It looked real enough at a quick glance , and the Crane Street area is not the most brilliantly lighted neighbourhood in town . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation . |
| 10 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 11 | My mother could n't understand it , but her rage and jealousy had long since given way to contempt and the occasional satisfaction of genuine sympathy . |
| 12 | Well it 's one fifty down long enough amount of time . |
| 13 | WHEN he resigned from the Great Britain coaching job almost three years ago , it was inevitable that Maurice Bamford would occupy a much less prominent place in Rugby League life . |
| 14 | However , although both advanced their ethical and political ideas on the basis of the basic urge of each man to seek his own survival and welfare , Hobbes derives his from a much less lofty view of man 's basic aims . |
| 15 | Such evidence might be taken to show a much less intense use of coinage in the former than in the latter , a view which could be supported by the calculations based on the material from Bath that very little coinage was available in circulation per capita of the population of Roman Britain ( see p. 47 ) . |
| 16 | In contrast lung cancer is a much less important cause of death for older women . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , in spite of a much less universal use of music than formerly , the monastic musical tradition remains a vital one . |
| 18 | Compared with their experience at home , children at school play a much less active role in conversation . |
| 19 | Throughout this turn , he is waiting for a favourable reaction from the two footballers and , in significant contrast to his argument with Hollar , adopts a much less formal register in order not to alienate them . |
| 20 | Naturally enough this kind of discourse is not unrelated to the facts of the situation . |
| 21 | What they expressed was not so much any possibility of revolution as a sort of chivalrous exasperation at things as they would always be . |
| 22 | What matters here is not so much this association between qualification and quality , but how it is explained . |
| 23 | It was concluded from the responses that the majority ‘ considered that the benefits which the present system had provided should not be discarded in favour of a far less obviously secure form of validation ’ . |
| 24 | It goes along the lines that ‘ researchers ’ research ’ is all about ‘ controlled experimentation within a psycho-statistical paradigm ’ — to coin a jargon or two — and expressed in just this kind of language . |
| 25 | It goes along the lines that ‘ researchers ’ research ’ is all about ‘ controlled experimentation within a psycho-statistical paradigm ’ — to coin a jargon or two — and expressed in just this kind of language . |
| 26 | The money has already been agreed on , so not much room for controversy there . |
| 27 | In focusing thus sharply on the question of the relation between religious faith and historical knowledge , Lessing put his finger on what was to prove a more or less permanently controversial topic in theology from his day to this . |
| 28 | But there is another , perhaps more promising category of deterrent effect : general deterrence . |
| 29 | He goes on to say he 's ‘ curious to know whether it is open to a wider and perhaps more aggressive audience with access to fax machines ’ . |
| 30 | In later work Foucault veers away from his most radical philosophical insights towards an analysis of discursive and extra-discursive systems of domination and exploitation , with increasing focus on the apparently more political question of power . |