Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [adv] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a new battery-operated tool from Germany , called the Aris Precision Cutter , it is claimed that even the most ham-fisted wallpaper hanger can get a perfect finish every time . |
| 2 | For this pollen is the best fossil available as it is the most readily dispersed and therefore the most likely to show correlations over wide areas . |
| 3 | He had dropped the joviality , even dropped as well the slightly secretive air of one who had been given permission to tell , but not all . |
| 4 | In the erotic landscape on which her thoughts now opened , the illusory and the actual were so intimately twinned that only the most cautious eye might distinguish between them ; and at each passionate encounter the symbolic and the literal seemed to enfold their embrace more tightly . |
| 5 | Information should be seen as perhaps the most fundamental of RBGE 's primary assets . |
| 6 | The Office of Fair Trading 's Consumer Use of Credit Survey showed that the Citizens Advice Bureaux were seen as far the most obvious place to turn to for advice on problems of meeting credit payments with 69 per cent of the 2,155 respondents to the survey . |
| 7 | I have often thought that almost the most foolish act perpetrated by the previous Prime Minister was her sacking of the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 8 | By setting up a trust for All Souls and carrying out the essential repairs , SAVE has demonstrated that even the most problematic redundant churches in the most difficult locations need not be a lost cause . |
| 9 | Mar Lodge has proved that even the most intransigent of ministers will begin to bend to public pressure . |
| 10 | Simon Peter , of course , is the best known and probably the most popular of Jesus 's original entourage — the one whom tradition has established as virtually synonymous with Christianity itself . |
| 11 | ERIC BALL will be remembered as perhaps the most significant contributor to the repertoire of the brass band . |
| 12 | Academic barriers to learning in the form of ‘ gateway ’ qualifications have been progressively diminished until even the most hidebound institutions have evolved ‘ open-access ’ programmes . |
| 13 | Green and Shapiro ( 1974 ) caution : ‘ parents [ are ] usually the persons best informed about their [ the children 's ] behaviour — [ but ] are also the most emotionally involved and usually the most biased in their favour . |
| 14 | With the exception of their mentors , the black-clad Orientals , the Apostles would be the best trained and therefore the most resourceful members of the sect 's command structure . |
| 15 | The interaction between effective but sensitive community self-surveillance and police surveillance has emerged as perhaps the most favoured approach . |