Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial attack in the air war occurred in the early hours of Feb. 13 when US aircraft destroyed an air raid shelter in the Amiriya district of western Baghdad . |
| 2 | But the most controversial feature of the broadcast was the inclusion of the telephone number of Labour 's headquarters . |
| 3 | This is the most controversial part of the assessment arrangements . |
| 4 | But the most controversial part of the bill relates to unofficial strikes , a legacy of the one-day summer stoppages on the London Underground . |
| 5 | The most controversial part of the budget was a group of measures to tax land . |
| 6 | The introduction of grant-maintained schools was perhaps the most controversial proposal in the Education Reforms Act 1988 , and one which was justified primarily on the grounds that it would extend parental choice in education . |
| 7 | On the other hand , Ivan Lendl supports such a change , stating ‘ It 's the most controversial call in the game . |
| 8 | Its new home , at the other end of what El Pais called the ‘ the most controversial kilometre in the history of contemporary art ’ , was Spain 's new Reina Sofia modern art centre . |
| 9 | I loathe the metal crate in which ‘ Guernica ’ travelled along ‘ the most controversial kilometre in the history of contemporary art ’ , to settle in its new mansion , where it will serve as a pernicious example to future generations . |
| 10 | A YEAR ago , proselytising on behalf of the most controversial bid of the year , Lloyds Bank argued that its takeover of Midland Bank could only benefit British banking . |
| 11 | The most controversial aspect of the Mojave ; some 80 per cent would be reserved as wilderness under the legislation . |
| 12 | The most controversial aspect of the package was its postponement of plans to force the use of real names in financial transactions , a measure due to become operational on Jan. 1 , 1991 . |
| 13 | Er , but that of course was all about the most controversial aspect of the report , which was the frequency of Congress . |
| 14 | Table 16–2 picks out the most controversial aspect of the tax system , the marginal rate of income tax . |
| 15 | I he most controversial aspect of the matter relates to those negotiations , but the evidence of Aitken 's probity is firmly established , notwithstanding determined efforts to put a cloud around it . |
| 16 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 17 | Firstly , I hope to clarify what spiritual direction is — and what it is not — for it represents a tremendously rich tradition in the church 's history which , by its very nature , has been both a hidden and profound influence in the lives of many . |
| 18 | Her man was Willie Johnson , the player at the centre of the most emotional scandal in the history of Scottish football , and a figure of such sentimental intensity , he should have played for Nashville . |
| 19 | In the most emotional speech of the day , Mr Alexander Rutskoy , the Vice-President , appealed for parliament to come to the aid of the Russian minority in the TransDniestr region of Moldova , the scene of bitter fighting in recent months . |
| 20 | No thank you ’ came the rather strange reply from the dark . |
| 21 | In a month when Harpers & Queen magazine devotes several pages to the lost art of manners , it may seem strange that parents should send their daughters from the most polite nation in the world to this newly graceless country . |
| 22 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
| 23 | He 's trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world … and lived amongst its communities … |
| 24 | Within 20 years and army of ‘ bluebellies ’ , little different in appearance form the troopers led by Crook and Miles on the Southern Plains , would be transformed into a huge khaki-clad nation at arms , facing the machine guns , tanks and heavy artillery of the most professional army in the world in the trenches of France . |
| 25 | Knight-editor of the most professional paper in the history of Fleet Street , the only upmarket tabloid , the newspaperman 's newspaper , the one that ( according to its current advertising ) is only read by the Better Bred . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most telling sentence in the book is ‘ Remember , your own doctor or chemist may not always be able to tell you whether a drug contains a banned substance . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps the most telling argument for the use of handwriting instead of speech as a natural communication medium is the current state of the commercially available systems based on speech and writing . |
| 28 | Considering the numbers involved , you have done a job of work which has had a most telling effect on the enemy and which , I fully believe , no other troops in the world could have done . |
| 29 | The most telling comment on the wealth of the metropolis is that it had more men worth upwards of £100 than most other towns had taxpayers of all grades ; indeed , the number of four-figure assessments equalled the total taxpayers of some tiny market towns . |
| 30 | the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship . |