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

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1 The most widely used dating techniques for authenticity testing are thermoluminescence , radiocarbon and dendrochronology : how they work is outlined in Chapter 7 .
2 ‘ As you know , this is one of the most advanced assembly plants in golf .
3 Its body shape means it is one of the safest and most stable road vehicles in cross winds .
4 However , everything was very civilised , as the Chinese travel staff , in their inevitable blue caps and jackets , ushered us through all the details , and even provided tea and lunch at the border station , in a rather old world atmosphere of chintz curtains and sofas with antimacassars .
5 I can also confirm that this is indeed the most luxurious Range Rover to date .
6 Polished mahogany and blue velvet gave saloon , bedroom , bathroom and kitchen an elegance seldom found in even the most luxurious wagon lits on continental expresses .
7 Correlations with the C-reactive protein and serum alpha-1 acid glycoprotein which some authors have claimed to be the most reliable laboratory indicators of activity are further illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 .
8 The authors of LEAP 1 , Management of Education ( 1989 ) suggest that preparing a School Development Plan may be one of the most demanding management tasks of headship .
9 At the conclusion of the business meeting Mrs S. Peterson gave a most interesting slide show of life in the Shetland Islands .
10 Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis , Britain 's most popular screen detectives on home ground in Oxford .
11 Well , it is abnormally low body weight for age and height , an intense fear of gaining weight despite being underweight and a misperception of body size and denial of the problem .
12 However , even where a less rigid gender division of labour prevails , it seems to be the case that women commonly act as the ‘ kin keepers ’ , that is to say , the people who keep up regular contacts with members of the wider kin group .
13 Many governments , most prominent among which was the former Conservative government of Mrs Margaret Thatcher , accepted the logic of the above argument and were thereby persuaded to swallow the bitter pill of demand deflation and abnormally high unemployment rates in exchange for the boon of a sustained fall in the rate of inflation .
14 European Brown Hare Syndrome ( EBHS ) , which yellows the arteries and causes liver damage , was first identified in 1986 by wildlife pathologists in Germany , after abnormally high mortality rates in hare populations .
15 India 's government is so concerned about naturally high fluoride levels in water that it believes children under seven should not use fluoridated toothpaste .
16 The leak allowed hydrogen to escape from a highly pressurized coolant system in engine number one ( of the shuttle 's three onboard engines ) and collect in the back end of Challenger , the second shuttle .
17 Employees are seeking to counteract the tedium and monotony of the highly specialised work patterns in mass-production by pressing for more integrated roles , requiring a wider range of skills and operations .
18 These spores are highly resistant tot extremes of heat and humidity and are very long-lived .
19 The long overdue government guidelines on restraint in children 's homes may have to be re-drafted .
20 Eight of the 10 patients with previous HBV infection alone developed serum HBsAg after transplantation .
21 Here they are , unisex and colour-supplement-magnetic in an Italian ‘ working-class ’ restaurant : ‘ Justin and Ursula , with their measured dignity and impeccable , interchangeable clothes — perhaps soft leather waistcoats over silk shirts and linen trousers in colours that rarely overstepped the narrow arc of the spectrum between cream and ochre — were immediately noticeable . ’
22 Any particular local government may be forced to incur an extremely large budget deficit in order to have an expansionary effect on the local economy .
23 Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages .
24 That is why we have had so many research studies in this area , and why we have such a wide variety of interesting cases of both successful and less successful projects which are extremely valuable starting points for analysis .
25 In Japan , for example , NHK recently began broadcasting daily one-hour test transmissions in MUSE from a direct broadcast satellite , showing the pictures on 200 large screen receivers located in various prominent public places .
26 First , they should have significant input/output linkages so primary energy sectors for example , would lower fuel costs across the economy , and steel expansion would generate external economies in shipbuilding or motor vehicles .
27 ECOVER products provide a unique range of highly effective cleaning agents for use about the home which have a minimum impact on the environment .
28 At the SCG I was impressed with the way the South African pace bowlers tightened line and length after somewhat loose opening period of play no doubt caused by first-time tension and over-eagerness to do well for the folks back home .
29 It also it is a fact that the people that you do tend to lend the equipment out to take it for granted that you are also a highly qualified video sort of technician and if anything goes wrong , they ring you up and say ‘ What plug goes where , and why is n't this working ’ and why should you if you 're working run down to some conference in the John Hall Room and try and sort out something for these people .
30 Ballistics theory predicts that only deep-seated target rocks at ground zero would be accelerated to escape velocity ; and all ground zero material would be melted to glass by the shock .
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