Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 2 | In almost all cases the anterior deltoid is the most developed and the posterior the least developed . |
| 3 | Take the fact , for example , that a quiet residential road is one of the most dangerous since the driver has a perception of being in a wide , open space and feels he is driving slower than he actually is . |
| 4 | Regular readers will recall that the first half of the 1970s saw an unprecedented upsurge of feminist activism , the most vigorous since the struggle for the vote in the first two decades of the century . |
| 5 | The next step is the most important that the game has taken since the formation of the present League system . |
| 6 | The game in hand is always the most important and the euphoria that surrounded the result on 6 February is now a thing of the past . |
| 7 | Summer is generally the most interesting if the tide is right . |
| 8 | Kelly 's outstanding win in Milan-San Remo last month was one of the most courageous since the event was first run in 1907 but the uphill finish in the Belgian classic will favour the younger men . |
| 9 | This last task is possibly the most difficult because the audience must be convinced that the ending chosen is the only possible outcome of everything that has gone before . |
| 10 | Half past eleven at night they went and knocked Wendy 's door and says can you give me some photos of your daughter and there were two girls and they thought that they were the only two and the woman said that the only two girls I know that are alike them , their age group , erm , er are Nicholas daughter and erm , and erm her friend |
| 11 | For example , patients in some other age groups such as the under 5s and the middle aged receive a disproportionate number of prescriptions and in general women are prescribed more items than men . |
| 12 | No initial peak was seen in costs in the under 5s and the increase up to the 75–84 age group was more gradual . |
| 13 | They are all the more impressive because the road at their base nowhere attains much height , being lower than 350 feet above sea level at its summit . |
| 14 | In fact , at the time when Macmillan 's advice was sought he had ceased to be Prime Minister and it is the more odd that the Queen on this occasion should have , in Macmillan 's words , said that ‘ she did not need and did not intend to seek any other advice but mine ’ . |
| 15 | He was all the more striking because the boast that he ran his papers just to make money contrasted strongly with the more complex motives , combining profit with politics , that were still typical of the proprietors of the early 1960s . |
| 16 | Hence the reaction of fear and hatred was all the more hysterical when the spectre of social revolution once again irrupted into a confident capitalist world . |
| 17 | They are concerned , which makes it all the more alarming that the Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen continue to sit on their backsides and endorse the TUC 's policy . |
| 18 | At the Marée in the market place of Rouen there are delicious fish dishes , excellent food at the Beffroy in the rue du Beffroy , all the more unexpected because the place looks too like Ye Olde Bunne Shoppe to be true . |
| 19 | The more features that 're fired , the more likely it is that you 'll get an out or the higher the activity level of the cognitive demon and then the more likely that the decision demon will decide that that 's the appropriate character . |
| 20 | The semantic integrity or cohesion of a collocation is the more marked if the meaning carried by one ( or more ) of its constituent elements is highly restricted contextually , and different from its meaning in more neutral contexts . |
| 21 | Such measures become all the more important when the overdose is a repeat . |
| 22 | The result was all the more remarkable as the champion has looked vulnerable in his last two contests . |
| 23 | Only a handful of such grants are made each year , and Woodchester Mansion 's success is all the more remarkable because the building was only ever half-finished |
| 24 | It can not be pretended that either scholar 's career is entirely typical of its period-Hocazade 's career is unusually chaotic even for the later fifteenth century , Civizade 's in many respects unusually " regular " even for the later sixteenth century-but the degree to which they are atypic is not sufficient to give a misleading impression . |
| 25 | In retrospect , it is not in the least surprising that the provision of this space generated all kinds of questions about the nature of the ‘ lesbian and gay community ’ . |
| 26 | The Treasurer 's job is both interesting and rewarding — and not in the least formidable as the title might suggest . |
| 27 | The Deaconess was not in the least surprised that the Archdeacon knew of Mrs Yaxlee 's accident . |
| 28 | Nonetheless I am not the least surprised that the deputy judge did not accept their expressed opinions about the deceased 's capacity and rested his judgment on the other evidence . |
| 29 | Routine monitoring represents a compromise between surveillance focused on the potentially troublesome and the need to be prepared for rule-breaking from an unexpected quarter . |
| 30 | The company rapidly becomes divided into two companies , one of which comprises the hewers of wood and carriers of water who are toiling away and actually achieving the relatively little that the company can achieve ; while the others , a separate band , although quite possibly a band of high potential in actual business terms , are playing the game of political musical chairs . |