Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others might argue that this idea of the personal as a form of unity admitting the most internal complexity is beside the point . |
| 2 | In the same way , in geography and biology records of field-work form the most important part of the examination , enthusiasm and imagination being properly rewarded . |
| 3 | This variety of lily produces the most beautiful fully-double white blooms — possibly the best white lily ever cultivated . |
| 4 | Just occasionally , however , the commodity price movements provided a window of opportunity to relax the highly protectionist policies . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State , Cordell Hull , believed that the application of trusteeship offered the most satisfactory solution , in part because he held that the Soviet Union and Kuomintang China would not work together after the Pacific War and that an American role in trusteeship with the Soviet Union , China and Great Britain would be indispensable . |
| 6 | A brief flicker of uncertainty crossed the carefully made-up features . |
| 7 | Each interview is concluded with an example of the poet 's work , which together with an introductory biographical note adds a sense of homeliness to cushion the often impassioned and intellectual rhetoric that arises . |
| 8 | Almost inevitably , though , there is a tinge of regret to accompany the most satisfactory days of his career on and off the field . |
| 9 | Only she could have heard the vein of ice underlying the apparently welcoming words . |
| 10 | As older children begin to make fewer mistakes on the surface level , their ability to tap levels of meaning becomes the most important element in their reading . |
| 11 | Lord McNair claimed that treaties of guarantee demonstrate the most apparent interlocking of law and policy . |
| 12 | So one has to use a quantum theory of gravity to discuss the very early stages of the universe . |
| 13 | They disagreed whether they were obligated by the correct theory of legislation to enforce the most literal or the most sensible reading of the statute in the absence of any reliable evidence about what Congress actually intended . |
| 14 | Although the Bois became notorious as the place where the respectable of society met the less respectable , it was nevertheless , in some sense , an extension of the Court itself , for the carriage outings of the Emperor and the Empress formed part of the spectacle : |
| 15 | The lowest ranks of society showed the most striking and significant contrasts . |
| 16 | Any sign of Men and he was off out of sight using the dead ground between rises to stay hidden , and he was careful to rise when he could over ridges where rocks or trees broke the skyline and so camouflaged his presence . |
| 17 | Lack of communication underlies the very different problems facing developed and developing countries alike . |
| 18 | This and a little piece of elastoplast denied the most outrageous element of the visit to Babylon . |
| 19 | These questions must remain unanswered , but this strategy for understanding the nature of dreaming represents the most promising yet suggested . |
| 20 | Freud 's analysis of dreaming remains the most influential single account that we have . |
| 21 | Radicality of surgery remained the most important survival factor . |
| 22 | If you are handy yourself , can employ a good carpenter , or go to a custom cabinet maker , you can make or obtain literally any size or type of unit to fit the most awkward spaces . |
| 23 | I have now supplied sufficient evidence of Agatha Christie 's erudition and remarkable range of source-material to silence the most sceptical critic of my thesis . |
| 24 | It was Jedburgh weavers who first combined two colours of yarn to produce the now familiar look of ‘ tweed ’ . |
| 25 | A thin line of lipstick outlined the moistly open mouth from which a bleb of mucus ballooned and fell . |
| 26 | The cottage was redolent with the zesty smell of lemon overlaying the more familiar tang of polish , wine and wood smoke . |
| 27 | The small yellow tablets coated in sugar and containing nothing more stimulating than a couple of stiff cups of coffee became the most bitter pill that Bud Johnson ever swallowed . |
| 28 | Charlotte woke very early on 21 September , giving herself plenty of time to make the very best of herself , putting on her Sunday best dress and bonnet . |
| 29 | Union competition for membership reflects the relatively unstable condition of union organization in Spain , which has been in a state of flux and development since the restoration of trade union rights . |
| 30 | Chairman there were three areas of concern , the longer term objective were of course the bypass , that is some way into the future , the more the media is , that is concerned with traffic calming the more comprehensive traffic calming would be the subject of some in depth study who 'd defined exactly what pieces of , of traffic are most suitable for that village , but one element and that was to do with |