Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You found the dead embedded in the walls of the trenches , heads , legs and half-bodies , just as they had been shovelled out of the way by the picks and shovels of the working party . |
| 2 | They still build their houses in the arc-like forms , they say , of the ships which once brought them , and their funeral rites , which for their nobility are unequalled for extravagance , are intended to launch the souls of the dead back to the stars of their origins . |
| 3 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 4 | Bill Jordan , president of the newly-merged Engineers and Electricians Union , is the most influential of the leaders backing change . |
| 5 | His Natural Theology — or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature , published in 1802 , is the best-known exposition of the " Argument from Design " , always the most influential of the arguments for the existence of a God . |
| 6 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 7 | For Marduk was not the most ancient of the gods , and his lordship over the other gods was meant to justify the political supremacy that Babylon had acquired . |
| 8 | Finally Ayatollah Khomeini had reclaimed his mantle as the most radical of the Imams by proclaiming a fatwa against Rushdie in February 1989 , effectively condemning him to death . |
| 9 | Probably the most radical of the recommendations of the Steering Committee was to propose a complete integration of the payroll and personnel functions within the organisation . |
| 10 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 11 | Physics has long been held as the most successful of the sciences . |
| 12 | Early results indicated a strong showing by the Alliance for Democracy in Mali ( ADEMA ) , the most successful of the parties in the municipal elections in January [ see p. 38708 ] . |
| 13 | The urge to power is the most visible of the justifications . |
| 14 | What was to prove the most far-reaching of the changes introduced in the July 1951 cabinet was the elevation to ministerial rank of Admiral Carrero Blanco 's position as director of the office of the head of government ; and the one which best exemplified the combination of new and old , change and ossification , was the creation of a Ministry of Information and Tourism . |
| 15 | The village as such is ordinary perhaps but its setting is sublime , in one of the most pastoral of the cirques or rings of mountains of which there are some dramatic examples in the high Pyrenees ( see Plate 4 ) . |
| 16 | The organisers had feared the ATP would withhold its officials , the most experienced in the men 's game . |
| 17 | Because the Soviet government 's promise to bring the modern world into even the most backward of the republics was a pillar of the union 's legitimacy , the Chernobyl disaster also led the republics to question the need for the union . |
| 18 | Young students , recently away from home , are seen as the most susceptible to the attractions of someone in power with an impressive mind , but can often be disappointed by the person who comes with it . |
| 19 | It was found that even from those sources of commercial information which give quantitative information , for example ICC and Business Monitors , it is the qualitative messages that are considered to be the most useful by the planners . |
| 20 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 21 | Indeed , on this point they were the most vehement of the groups that gave evidence to the Beveridge Committee . |
| 22 | This is the simplest , most widely used , and in some ways the most misleading of the classifications . |
| 23 | As far as hardware is concerned , this is obviously the most complex of the Systems described , but the circuits can be realised with a small number of standard integrated circuit packages and purpose.built stepping motor control packages are now widely available ( Sigma instruments , 1980 ; Klingman , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | The most complex of the risings was the Pilgrimage of Grace , the problems of which have been covered in two important papers , both of which stress the varying motives of the participants ( 68 ; 69 ) . |
| 25 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ It 's also going to hit most those people in the community who are the most vulnerable including the pensioners . |
| 26 | Sure enough , I hear the lovely yodelling ‘ Cal-calloo ’ of the drake echoing across the water — surely one of the most evocative of the calls of our winter birds . |
| 27 | Anger : in many ways anger is the most powerful of the emotions to come to the surface in early recovery . |
| 28 | There is , however , another element in the GP 's ideology and with this I want to draw out one of the most powerful of the myths of medical work and relate it back to my earlier theme of profession as mystery . |
| 29 | He indicated the most recent-looking of the bodies . |
| 30 | The most violent of the revolts and the most serious disorders have occurred in places where tyrants perpetrated the worst outrages . |