Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer two : a crime novel may still be crime fiction , as opposed to pure fiction , even if it abandons altogether that prime staple of blueprint detective fiction , the murder puzzle . |
| 2 | Lurching into it , with one part lumbered with unlovely council tower blocks up the hill , while nearer the river the developers had arrived , and where once had been a network of tiny streets harbouring some of the most professional criminal families in South London , there were now several expensive blocks of flats : expensive because they faced the river and looked sideways to the old Royal Palace of Greenwich with the trees and slopes of the park behind . |
| 3 | Eventually Behbehanian left Teheran for hiss home in Basel just before Christmas 1978 . |
| 4 | Neutrinos are elusive particles which interact with matter so rarely that large bodies of material are often needed to detect them . |
| 5 | Computational science requires , and uses , the most advanced computational techniques of colour graphics , computer visualization and animation . |
| 6 | According to Scottish Homes , the final report , which will focus on tenure and geographical areas , will then provide the most complete national picture of housing , and of people 's aspirations , so far available in Scotland . |
| 7 | The rather specific environmental requirements of salt weathering mean that its action is spatially highly variable . |
| 8 | She did try , writing what she describes as ‘ two of the most frightful purple passages of stream of consciousness prose ’ , but they were so awful she threw them away . |
| 9 | By this time , The Smiths had embarked on their most extensive British tour to date . |
| 10 | Presumably this total lack of interest was due to his belief , which he shared with other early Christians , that the Second Coming was imminent ( Romans 13 : 11–12 ) . |
| 11 | With the exception of certain areas of mental health , there appeared little clear medical evidence in support of these claims . |
| 12 | I had rummaged this same vessel with my crew after she had arrived at Lowestoft at midnight some weeks previously , with a suspiciously empty fish hold and a dripping wet rubber dinghy on deck . |
| 13 | This picture also says forcibly some other pieces of information which we might perhaps not have guessed : that Portugal and Haiti are very poor countries , and that Trinidad is a very wealthy country , in relative terms . |
| 14 | In brief , then , the two main parties have adopted rather different philosophical stands in relation to equality though this does not mean that they have translated these into practical policies when in government . |
| 15 | Feminists have led some of the most exciting recent developments in sociology . |
| 16 | Here are four products representing some of the most exciting recent advances in TV and Video technology … the elegant Ferguson 51K4 TV and Ferguson FV37H Video , the portable Ferguson 41H3 and the giant screen Ferguson 68K4 . |
| 17 | He soon became aware that his theory was not capable of explaining some of the most exciting new developments in science . |
| 18 | Hampstead High Street on a sunny Saturday , most exciting political place on earth — throbbing , crackling , but no one 's going to get hurt . |
| 19 | Instead it was the popular classes themselves , and especially the petite bourgeoisie , that were the most salient social classes in relationship to the Parisian bourgeoisie . |
| 20 | Loch Brora and the River Brora for instance , close to the most northerly coal-mining town on mainland Britain — although the mine , a private venture , closed a few years ago . |
| 21 | One of the most interesting current lines of research is the exploration of the relationship between professional theory and practice by Argyris ( 1982 ) and Schon ( 1987 ) . |
| 22 | The most interesting current aspect of work of this kind , which in general bears decisively away from sociology and indeed is often hostile to it , is its relation to one tendency in Marxist thinking about art . |
| 23 | For the time being , he ceased to be a cloistered academic and became once more the son of the police-court solicitor in Belfast , the city where the most popular political slogan at election times was ‘ Vote early , vote often ’ . |
| 24 | The by-election also coincided with opinion polls which suggested that LDP leader Toshiki Kaifu was the most popular Prime Minister on record . |
| 25 | He was by far the most popular Unionist speaker after Law in 1912 and 1913 , the man that every local association wanted to open their bazaars and fates . |
| 26 | In swimming — the single most popular physical recreation after walking — the importance of teaching children to swim has drawn in some women and competitive swimming is a very important sport for girls . |
| 27 | CURRENTLY RACING past EM Forster ( dead ) as the most popular British novelist to film , only McEwan 's ‘ difficult ’ The Child In Time remains un-optioned . |
| 28 | They assumed that since these were the most distant from the capitalist system they would manifest the most different social relations of production . |
| 29 | so each linear metre of space sells £200. |
| 30 | This would permit a much lower marginal rate of tax . |