Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , mortgage-backed securities apart , credit card securitisation represents arguably the most important segment of the asset-backed securities market . |
| 2 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 3 | But the deliberate use of McCarthyism by the leaders of the Republican Party as a weapon against the Democrats offers perhaps the most convincing explanation of its success . |
| 4 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 5 | The committee considered the ‘ offence ’ to be compounded when an answer claimed to be pursuant to an earlier reply ‘ but has only the most tenuous link with it , ’ she said . |
| 6 | As a friend of mine — who has only the most ephemeral links with any religious tradition — put it recently to me : " We must learn to be channels not engines ! " |
| 7 | The student taking a written examination , however , very often has only the most rudimentary knowledge of the skills necessary in writing down his thoughts rapidly and accurately and in mastering the subtle techniques of being a successful examinee — techniques that have no connection at all with the amount of knowledge he may possess . |
| 8 | This generally allows only the more vocal children to put forward their views . |
| 9 | And our survey shows up the most important variation — the overall costs to you , the customer . |
| 10 | The very fact that The Star is even interested in Carter marks out the rather sizeable arena they are currently entering . |
| 11 | I would remark yet a further factor relevant to race and colonialism , one which raises again the always ambiguous status of the aesthetic , and inseparably from its achievements : Gide is in Africa as a writer discovering and nurturing a creativity of itself intrinsically exploitative . |
| 12 | In analysing the ways in which informal care in the context of an existing familial relationship is both more than and less than personal assistance , she opens up the rather sterile debate about ‘ burden ’ , ‘ dependency ’ and residential care . |
| 13 | Roy Hattersley 's simultaneous resignation as deputy leader also opens up the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform . |
| 14 | Gaminara draws only the most banal conclusions from his detailed subject matter and , by the end , the play ( his first for the stage ) has become contrived , sentimental and gratuitously violent . |
| 15 | As for the huge variability in the number of contradictory results , Moore says that NCI applies only the most stringent criteria to their decisions : a significant turnout response to a given dose in two species or two sexes . |
| 16 | It picks up the very dim stars . |
| 17 | Table 16–2 picks out the most controversial aspect of the tax system , the marginal rate of income tax . |
| 18 | In this article Dr Morris explains how the most radical part of the pilot project — the contract for social care — was set up . |
| 19 | The magazine became and remains perhaps the most important forum for the publication of outstanding new photography from around the world . |
| 20 | MICHAEL Fallon remains much the most favoured subject for our limerick competition , as in this pithy effort from Robert Friend of Cowshill up't top of Weardale : Mr Junior Minister Fallon , Dispensed unctuousness by the gallon , It was not to win votes , This ‘ soft soap ’ in quotes , But for care of his hair at the salon . |
| 21 | I have a person who comes in for two hours every morning , but … but she does just the very rough work . |
| 22 | It is detailed , concrete and enables even the most unimaginative writer to eliminate gross bias without gross inelegance . |
| 23 | The survival of Blackpool as a resort proves vividly the stubbornly persistent poverty of expectation of the English . |
| 24 | ‘ If the thought of other women being able to do this , to touch you , hold you , lie with you , brings on the most awful pain inside , makes me feel sick and ill , then I have no intention of letting you out of my sight . |
| 25 | Schering Chemicals v Falkman [ 1981 ] 2 WLR 848 provides perhaps the most extreme example of the obligation of confidence arising from disclosure for a limited purpose . |
| 26 | Klein provides perhaps the least teleological analysis of the development of a subject , and her examples of adult psychosis may be linked to Hegel 's , and especially Marx 's , models of rupture , since they appear to result from the subject 's belief in the alien nature of some fragmented aspects of the self it has become unable to sublate . |
| 27 | A filter that transmits only the most energetic K line and absorbs less energetic X-rays then leaves an almost monochromatic X-ray beam , though the linewidth is of the order of 1–2 eV , and the ‘ line ’ may in fact consist of two or more components . |
| 28 | The specification of the qualities expected of members provides only the most general idea of how they will fit in . |
| 29 | This makes perhaps the most inportant breeding area in Britain for this threatened bird — and bitterns can be seen from the hides here more regularly than anywhere else . |
| 30 | The book has been written very much with the busy clinician in mind and conveys only the most superficial impression , an approach that is less than satisfactory for the serious researcher or specialist . |