Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most widely accepted definition of tool use is that it is the use of some external object as an extension of the body to attain an immediate objective . |
| 2 | Consequently mortality is the oldest and most widely used index of health status . |
| 3 | The most widely used system of nomenclature of chemical compounds is that recommended by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ) . |
| 4 | The most widely used form of treatment is the bell and pad . |
| 5 | The condom is the most widely used form of contraception ( 41% ) , the pill is used by the partner of 31% of our sample , while such devices as the coil and diaphragm appear to have lost whatever popularity they once enjoyed . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation . |
| 7 | For centuries , man has thought of himself as the most highly evolved form of life on earth , using his five senses to build up a composite and highly complex picture of the world around him . |
| 8 | However , although both advanced their ethical and political ideas on the basis of the basic urge of each man to seek his own survival and welfare , Hobbes derives his from a much less lofty view of man 's basic aims . |
| 9 | Such evidence might be taken to show a much less intense use of coinage in the former than in the latter , a view which could be supported by the calculations based on the material from Bath that very little coinage was available in circulation per capita of the population of Roman Britain ( see p. 47 ) . |
| 10 | In contrast lung cancer is a much less important cause of death for older women . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , in spite of a much less universal use of music than formerly , the monastic musical tradition remains a vital one . |
| 12 | Naturally enough this kind of discourse is not unrelated to the facts of the situation . |
| 13 | What they expressed was not so much any possibility of revolution as a sort of chivalrous exasperation at things as they would always be . |
| 14 | It was concluded from the responses that the majority ‘ considered that the benefits which the present system had provided should not be discarded in favour of a far less obviously secure form of validation ’ . |
| 15 | But there is another , perhaps more promising category of deterrent effect : general deterrence . |
| 16 | In later work Foucault veers away from his most radical philosophical insights towards an analysis of discursive and extra-discursive systems of domination and exploitation , with increasing focus on the apparently more political question of power . |
| 17 | In so far as they were looking forward , it was with a much more gradual pace of development in mind . |
| 18 | Seismic data which show the deep structure of rift systems have revealed a much more complex pattern of faulting than was suspected in the classic rift model , with the presence of listric as well as normal faults . |
| 19 | Secondly , it is well known that the impact of the rediscovery of poverty in the 1880s helped to bring about a much more complex analysis of poverty and its causes , which in turn looked toward the State to begin to solve the problem . |
| 20 | If we now move away from regarding income distribution in terms of the relative amount received by different groups of ‘ income units ’ to that received by different occupational strata , we gain a much more concrete indication of inequality . |
| 21 | However having spent so long on Tolkien 's powerful and complex image of evil , it is time to turn to his portrayal of the ( in appearance ) often weaker and much more limited power of good . |
| 22 | She was very young , 18 or 19 , and relatively immature although much more worldly wise than I was because she had lived a much more international sort of life , and having been around the music scene a lot more than I had , she was streetwise at her age to a greater degree than I — there was no question of that . |
| 23 | A different and apparently much more specific line of research , however , developed from another of Adrian 's electrophysiological experiments . |
| 24 | By 1860 the Directory had become a very much more useful work of reference ; and by 1917 , with the absorption of its only serious rival , the Clergy List , reigned supreme . |
| 25 | Picking it up and pretending to do a rather elaborate waltz along the road with it , on the other hand , would be thought of as a much more creditable act of hooliganism . |
| 26 | The burning of energy and the consequent production of pollutants just for frivolous enjoyment , does not seem to sit comfortably alongside the much more serious objective of sustainability . |
| 27 | That would be a much more fruitful field of study . ’ |
| 28 | The difference now , however , is that such arguments are multiplied many times over , both by the much more extensive use of technology and the great number of technological developments which appear so quickly and exist at the same time . |
| 29 | In Sweden , where there is a much more equal distribution of income and wealth , almost nobody can afford servants . |
| 30 | A second and much more general form of patronage was that of a court or powerful household in which there was no intrinsic organization of artists as part of the general social organization but in which , often very extensively , individual artists were retained , often with titles which represent the true cases of ‘ official recognition ’ . |