Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That night , they filmed the most memorable and supposedly dramatic scene in the picture , the one in which Nicholson does his monologue on what is wrong with American society , for which he became famous .
2 This , then , was Mary 's inheritance : by a combination of political circumstances , luck , strong personalities on the throne and sheer nerve and drive , she was heir to a remarkably stable and remarkably outward-looking society , whose kings commanded a great deal of respect , and exercised a great deal of power .
3 I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes .
4 Where , then , may we look for hopeful areas of peace , ways in which this new overwhelmingly destructive and readily deployable force may be contained , not just for a few years , but in our minuscule timespan , for ever ?
5 But … he devised the first , most complete and most sophisticated learning package for those who wished to study organisational development ’ .
6 The most complete and reliably dated sequence comes from near Little Loch Roag , Lewis ( Birks and Madsen , 1979 ) .
7 Perhaps the most striking and most controversial aspect of the proposals introduced yesterday is the effect they will have on the low paid .
8 Perhaps the most striking and most controversial aspect of the proposals introduced yesterday is the effect they will have on the low paid .
9 Whilst by no means an ideal data base , WIRS does provide the most extensive and most representative survey information currently available on employers ' use of temporary labour in Britain .
10 In 1961 , however , Macmillan 's Conservative Government was forced to confront the underlying weaknesses of British economic performance , and , as the Cabinet debated various strategies , the Prime Minister noted the emergence of ‘ a rather interesting and quite deep divergence of view between Ministers , really corresponding to whether they had old Whig , Liberal , laissez-faire traditions , or Tory opinions , paternalists and not afraid of a little dirigism .
11 In it , he entrusted his ‘ six sons ’ to the protection of his ‘ most celebrated and very dear friend ’ , adding that they were the products of long and laborious labour , but that he was encouraged by the hope that one day they would prove a source of consolation .
12 IN HIS gleeful excoriation of The British Academy of Cricket Manual for Gentlemen and Players in the January WCM , Mark Browning echoes the sentiments of your esteemed Editor , who called the book ‘ … the greatest , the most conspicuous and distinctly unrepeatable load of garbage ever dumped on the cluttered book-market ’ ( WCM Aug 1988 ) , and both reviewers queried the sanity of any reader curious or gullible enough to read it in its entirety .
13 Whatever the truth of this , this particular school 's proposal document is a remarkably slim and relatively uninformative basis for granting the award .
14 Had those early Communists received their education in a contemporary society , understood themselves and others better , they would have laid down a rather different and more workable framework for the new society .
15 It is the sole building of good quality in this predominantly commercial and rather nondescript part of the town .
16 Berlin modernism , meanwhile , was an altogether different and surely stranger brew .
17 The love-hate relationship goes on : you voted Margaret Thatcher both most interesting and most boring woman
18 Look no further than your own garden to see the most interesting and often surprising colour combinations .
19 He is harsh and shows little pity in dealing with the fallen angels and his exclamation that his son will be exalted resounds with a rather curt and slightly arrogant ring .
20 A good starting salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered and a willingness to make a positive contribution to the overall success of this highly innovative and rapidly growing company will be reflected in future remuneration .
21 This is reflected in the pre-eminence of the smart , highly professional and rather conservative rock monthly Q , launched in 1986 .
22 There is no reason to use a difficult and probably expensive analytical method if a much simpler and quicker visual examination under a microscope provides the same answer .
23 But more important , and certainly more divisive , than such occasions was the endlessly controversial and emotionally potent question of precedence .
24 When it comes to profiles and interviews , familiar names usually get the nod over the up-and-coming , partly because they are the ones the powers-that-be have heard of , and partly because the famous and/or notorious are what a less obsessive and more catholic readership wants to know about .
25 He wanted to marry her , but she laughed at him too , and said she had already made her choices and they did not include giving up her God and replacing him with a somewhat vulgar and certainly brutal man .
26 Unfortunately , as we have seen , such an approach suggests a more complete , less messy and more fundamental change at the time of her study than seems to be justified by the continuing history of the 1970s .
27 Unfortunately , a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness is often arrived at by a much shorter and less strenuous route than this , particularly with female patients , who tend to be perceived as more ‘ nervy ’ .
28 Figures for receivership were less positive , but entirely consistent with the view that the region has suffered a much shorter and less severe recession than any other .
29 And actually we 've had a very full report from the auditors which makes extremely interesting and somewhat hilarious reading .
30 Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states .
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