Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It centres on the quantitative sense of ‘ popular ’ , proposing ‘ to deal with the pieces which are demonstrably the most popular items of ‘ popular music ’ , with the most widely disseminated items of music disseminated in the mass media' ( Hamm 1982 : 5 ; see also Hamm 1979 : xvii–xxii ; 1982 , passim ) . |
| 2 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 3 | Syntax has been one of the most widely investigated areas of linguistics and human processing of language has been intensively studied . |
| 4 | This effect has been most noticeable , for obvious reasons , in the most highly capitalized forms of production . |
| 5 | This was not a problem which afflicted journalists who were the most carelessly dressed tribe of professionals he had come across . |
| 6 | An extreme climate and thin , stony soils made the windy plateaux ( the páramos ) of Teruel and Huesca the most sparsely populated parts of Spain . |
| 7 | The county is 100 miles long and my constituency is the most sparsely populated area of Cornwall . |
| 8 | This is followed by presentation of the much less appreciated production of Prague and Germany , France and the Gobelins , and the Bourbons in Madrid and Naples . |
| 9 | In 1469 , during the reign of James III , Scotland was first described as an ‘ Impyre ’ — sixty-four years before the much better known claim of Henry VIII to the same effect . |
| 10 | The other unusual and perhaps best known characteristic of Trolls is that their flesh is able to regrow almost as quickly as it is damaged . |
| 11 | However , it is worth considering the less easily defined aspects of analysis which might contribute to the validity of results . |
| 12 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 13 | Again , she had only ever seen pictures of rooms like this in magazines , in the homes of film stars : enormous chambers furnished as this one was with deep wing chairs and buttoned leather chesterfields , warmed by a huge log fire blazing in the grate , and with every wall hung with various and ornately framed oil paintings . |
| 14 | We only ever had cream of mushroom . |
| 15 | This time it was his wine collection , housed in specialy built cellars of Headington Hill Hall in Oxford ; the wine , over 3,000 bottles is being sold off by administrators . |
| 16 | Yet during their tenure of office both have had to deal with a Russia now run by an apparently liberally minded head of government who has come to the conference table willing to reduce arms at a rate that the West sometimes finds embarrassing . |
| 17 | Ultrasound scanning may show thickening of the bile ducts and less often provides evidence of bile duct stricturing and/or dilatation . |
| 18 | The number of buzzards , whose primary food has always been rabbits , dropped significantly and is only now showing signs of recovery . |
| 19 | They come together regularly to discuss standards of recruitment and recruits in the area , as well as the standards of the management committee members who are involved with them in the interviewing process . |
| 20 | Second , there was feeling , the word used not in the conventional sense , but to describe a much less consciously formulated process of appreciation and subjective valuation . |
| 21 | We discuss whether the regions containing these apparently developmentally programmed patterns of DNase I hypersensitive sites reflect the action of a locus control region ( LCR ) by conferring tissue-specific , position-independent , copy-dependent expression on a wild-type Ea gene . |
| 22 | The intention is not only to record the whereabouts of existing and established collections , but to make available to researchers up-to-date information about less well known groups of records , especially those still in private hands . |
| 23 | Many bishops of the Late Roman period had earlier in their careers been notable civil servants ; best-known is Ambrose of Milan , but Germanus of Auxerre provides a fine example from Gaul , so too does Gregory of Langres , whose episcopate extended into the sixth century . |
| 24 | Although some historians , often Marxists , have rejected this consensus , only recently have aspects of praxis , such as laboratory skills , been subjected to close and sustained study . |
| 25 | This is one of the richest and most easily found sources of vitamin E , sometimes called ‘ the fertility vitamin ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Sellafield has made the Irish Sea the most radioactively contaminated stretch of water in the world . |
| 27 | But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 . |
| 28 | This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne . |
| 29 | Arrests might rouse public sympathy for those who were thus apparently denied freedom of speech : |
| 30 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |