Example sentences of "[art] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 2 | On the other hand the dominant firms , the ‘ Barons ’ , were also those with the most experienced and often the most accomplished advocates , who could call upon a specialised back-up staff of articled and managing clerks . |
| 3 | The decision to use the bomb remains the most controversial and probably the most important of the Second World War . |
| 4 | Frances has a horrible dog , Hotchkiss , the most odious and also the most convincing dog in literature . |
| 5 | The most effective and therefore the most likely would be an increase in VAT or widening the scope of the tax to cover books and newspapers or even food and children 's clothing . |
| 6 | long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the |
| 7 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |
| 8 | You can of course , massage the oils into your own skin and derive benefit from them , but the most pleasurable and certainly the most relaxing way is to receive massage from someone else — preferably a qualified massage therapist — though a friend with ‘ good hands ’ is more than adequate . |
| 9 | Hunger , caused by lack of food , is the most obvious and indeed the most powerful stimulus , but often we haven an appetite even though we are not very hungry . |
| 10 | Moving it from the training camp ground to the hospital ward was the most commercial and seemingly the most obvious — course to be taken . |
| 11 | The most important and certainly the commonest form of town is the planned town , using the work ‘ planned ’ in its widest sense . |
| 12 | Among city-states Athens was not the only democracy in the ancient Greek world but it was the most stable and long-lived , and the best documented , if only because it was politically the most important and culturally the most brilliant and creative of all the city-states . |
| 13 | Of the two the former is still the most common and often the most cost effective . |
| 14 | The most widespread and probably the most serious destruction of archaeological sites , though , is caused by agriculture , including ploughing , deforestation and afforestation , and drainage and clearance of marginal land . |
| 15 | Russians , the ‘ elder brother ’ of the Slavic as well as of the other Soviet peoples , were not just the most numerous but also the dominant national grouping in the USSR as a whole . |
| 16 | Of the two types of bend tests the four-point is the more reliable since only a pure bending moment is applied to the centre section of the beam and the relation becomes exact , for small curvature , since the deformation is truly into a circular arc . |
| 17 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 18 | There 's been a more limited but still a fairly substantial amount of work done in this country , and there has been nothing at all , we 've had done locally . |
| 19 | Successive reforms of local government administration , which have sought to make it more efficient , have produced a more rationalized but also a more centralized system , which has brought about a necessary decline in local autonomy . |
| 20 | The world would be a more stable and therefore a better place if we extinguished ourselves in the same place where we first saw the light of day , and if we spent the intervening time in as small a circumference as a day 's walking permits . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |