Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial issue raised during the visit related to Japan 's colonial occupation of Korea , and specifically the forced recruitment of thousands of Korean women — some historians suggested as many as 200,000 — to be used sexually by the Imperial Japanese Army fighting in China and South-East Asia . |
| 2 | It is worth noting that in the USA , where modular structures are the norm , most professional education occurs at the postgraduate stage . |
| 3 | What is known , is that approximately 200 enemy aircraft were encountered , in what was the most concentrated attack made on the 401st . |
| 4 | There is , however , a problem over the derivation of the result , for a rather subtle reason connected with the structure of the smaller-scale motions . |
| 5 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 6 | A widely used definition pitched at the macro-level is Maxwell 's ( Maxwell et al. |
| 7 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 8 | Looked at from the perspective of land distribution and usage , Great Britain could be described as a predominantly agricultural kingdom based on the three countries of England , Scotland , and Wales . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most striking point to note at the outset is that the Black Death itself had a comparatively limited effect on wages and the supply of land . |
| 10 | I have often thought that almost the most foolish act perpetrated by the previous Prime Minister was her sacking of the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 11 | Eventually English Heritage joined with the National Heritage Memorial fund offering to buy the house and asking for no funding from the government ( although possibly in the long term , additional monies would have had to have been found for the running of the house ) . |
| 12 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 13 | The most conspicuous group to emerge from the 947 names on the Prime Minister 's list — about 30 more than usual — are key figures in the traumatic aftermath to the terrorist bombing of Pan-Am 's Flight 103 over Lockerbie last December . |
| 14 | Now the most painful way to call upon the public to sacrifice its claims is by taxing . |
| 15 | Karelius was aware of a most painful sensation stabbing into the back of his eyes . |
| 16 | If these world markets are themselves genuinely competitive , and if the domestic market is open to imports , then there may be little direct harm resulting from the pursuit of large scale ( though ideally one would wish there to be some scrutiny of the dominant firm in the context of the world market by a supra-national competition authority ) . |
| 17 | This is the most exciting thing to happen on the UK tobacco control front for many years . |
| 18 | All the skiing from here is on glacier and although there is one marked black run , the most exciting skiing lies among the crevasses and ice cliffs . |
| 19 | A BADLY decomposed body found in the Sidlaw Hills near Dundee at the weekend is that of Nealle Wilson , a mentally handicapped man who went missing two years ago , police revealed yesterday . |
| 20 | Whilst chapters are devoted to all the major US fighter types , P–38 , P–47 , P–51 and the like , the most interesting reading comes from the sections devoted to the less successful aircraft like the XP–50 , Hughes D–2 and the P–63 . |
| 21 | The main screen is simply a list of the letters , with a description of each one 's contents , and a rather primitive menu running across the top . |
| 22 | The most popular legend relating to the discovery of coffee tells of an Ethiopian mullah and a goat herd . |
| 23 | The most popular story told by the regulars to casual strangers , concerned a very large Swedish seaman who had visited the Blue Boar with a couple of shipmates one evening before the war . |
| 24 | Bourbon , the most popular whisky made in the United States , must have at least 51% corn in the mash ; it may have as much as 79% . |
| 25 | And the most popular figure left in the waxworks ? |
| 26 | Although the two never met , they both forged a figurative style out of the Abstract Expressionism raging all about them — not the most popular move to make at the time . |
| 27 | Although verbal agreements can be binding in law , they can be difficult to prove in later years , particularly when a new not so friendly neighbour comes on the scene . |
| 28 | My sister and brother stayed together , and were sent to a terribly posh house to live with the ex-Mayor of Chard and his two maiden sisters . |
| 29 | There are five main subdivisions : dune systems , gently undulating land lying above the influence of the ground-water table , level land close to the water-table , eutrophic peaty wetlands and rocky terrain with windblown sand . |
| 30 | For the first time bids were by competitive tender , a highly controversial system introduced by the government in an attempt to increase competition . |