Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UDCs are the most controversial of the urban innovations , and are given separate consideration later in this chapter . |
| 2 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 3 | By all accounts , not many years ago the Western Isles must have been among the most depressed of the peripheral areas of Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ I like the walrus best ’ , … ‘ because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters . ’ |
| 5 | It must be most trying under the present pressures . ’ |
| 6 | In the spring of 1907 , when he began the preparatory sketches for the Demoiselles , Picasso was already establishing his reputation as one of the most outstanding of the younger figures in contemporary French painting . |
| 7 | LIFFE 's membership is widely representative of the financial services industry . |
| 8 | During that first year in Fontanellato I was obliged to join the most junior of the Fascist organizations and became a Piccola Italiana , a little Italian . |
| 9 | Measurement , and the reason why Lazarsfeld was so insistent on developing a social research format that permitted even a modest level of quantification , is one of the procedures that facilitates the mathematisation of theory , a feature which is the hallmark of the most advanced of the natural sciences , such as physics . |
| 10 | However , since its cost is minimal and most people will have it ( a version came with Windows 3.0 and 3.1 ) it 's likely to be the most used of the cacheing utilities . |
| 11 | Healthy , lustrous hair will complement any cut , although at this time of year it may become rather depressed after the exhausting effects of the sun and sea . |
| 12 | It might well appeal to poets or would-be poets , who , contrary to popular myths about inspiration , are usually keenly interested in the technical aspects of composition . |
| 13 | HAVING BEEN a regular reader of your magazine for a few years now , I have been most interested in the regular updates on the progress in restoration of Bf 109G G-USTV . |
| 14 | They were most marked on the heavy clays that overlie most of the Midlands , which produced good pastures . |
| 15 | The meanings thus arrived at would be far removed from the realms of mysticism and superstition , and be wholly free from the false claims of unchallengeable truth attributed to so-called holy scripture . |
| 16 | The most conspicuous of the persistent appendages are the cerci of the 11th segment , which exhibit wide diversity of form and may even be transformed into forceps , as in the Japygidae and the earwigs . |
| 17 | Not that all boards are n't fun — the funboard describes a group of boards which may be a little unstable during the first steps afloat , but can be used in higher winds allowing the sailor to develop techniques such as the use of footstraps to cope with the speed of sailing in strong winds . |
| 18 | The most primitive of the armoured mammals are the five species of echidnas , or spiny anteaters , from Australasia . |
| 19 | What seems plain maltreatment at the time could look rather different in the quiet surroundings of a tribunal or courtroom months or years later . |
| 20 | The fact that they are regularly represented with special spelling forms makes them seem rather different from the above examples . |
| 21 | This is not entirely surprising because the steps involved are rather different from the familiar ones used in other spreadsheet tasks . |
| 22 | Again the two models of suburbanization by addition and redevelopment are useful but the pattern of their application was rather different from the inter-war years . |
| 23 | That the orientation is rather different from the intellectual influences on the normativist style is fairly clear . |
| 24 | The features of sign language interpreting so far described , and the possible registers available , suggest something rather different from the linguistic models of Seleskovitch ( 1978 ) and others . |
| 25 | Sometimes in the latter case it seems that the assimilation is rather different from the word-boundary examples ; for example , if in a syllable-final consonant cluster a nasal consonant precedes a plosive or a fricative in the same morpheme , the place of articulation of the nasal is always determined by the place of articulation of the other consonant ; thus : ‘ bump ’ ; ‘ tenth ’ ; ‘ hunt ’ ; ‘ bank ’ . |
| 26 | To opponents in this country , on the other hand , the PWR was the most unpleasant of the nuclear demons on offer . |
| 27 | The journey south continues through Charleston and Savannah — historic and colourful cities , once major coastal ports , now each the capital of its own subtropical island , the most northerly of the new keys . |
| 28 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 29 | The shy young visitor was soon disputing with Wordsworth almost on equal terms ; and next evening , while Coleridge was providing Dorothy with superfluous explanations about the different notes of the nightingale , Hazlitt and Wordsworth ‘ got into a metaphysical argument ’ which may have inspired two of the most genial of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Expostulation and Reply ’ , and ‘ The Tables Turned ’ , both of them written ‘ in front of the house at Alfoxden ’ . |
| 30 | This maxim provides some of the most interesting of the standard implicatures . |