Example sentences of "the [adj] and [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The raid on Gay 's The Word bookshop in 1984 was merely the largest and best publicised exercise in State censorship this decade . |
| 2 | As a member of the HAE , and one of the largest and best known hire companies in Europe , HSS is well-equipped to meet all your hiring requirements . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been the largest and longest sustained fall in unemployment in the history of this country . ’ |
| 4 | WHO : The largest and longest established organization , the National Association of Prison Visitors , arranges visits by its nine hundred members with local prison governors . |
| 5 | In this case , the mill was saved by the much-respected and sadly missed author , David Verey , who purchased and restored the derelict mill in 1965 . |
| 6 | Particular attention was given to two issues : the rural and sparsely populated character of much of Wales , and the problems caused by the prevalence in Wales of two languages . |
| 7 | In conditions below ten knots a masthead drifter , set flying from a tack point on the extended and heavily reinforced pulpit structure , should help Q2 in what are anticipated to be her least favoured conditions . |
| 8 | For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment . |
| 9 | Incidentally , in the completed and highly recommended movie Branagh does look totally out of his skull in that scene . |
| 10 | This could even have the elusive and much desired effect of reducing the appeal of smoking as a ‘ grown up ’ activity through reconstructing it as an essentially teenage pursuit . |
| 11 | James Byam Shaw CBE , the distinguished and much loved art historian and connoisseur of drawings , died 18 March . |
| 12 | They were never very significant , few are well-documented , and many are now abandoned , but they represent , in the old and densely occupied county of Somerset , one of the few cases where an area was colonised and settled . |
| 13 | The Indian civil service never had more than 1,000 members to administer the vast and densely populated subcontinent — a tiny fraction ( at most 1 per cent ) of the legions of Confucian mandarins and palace eunuchs employed next door to administer a not-much-more populous China . |
| 14 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 15 | A careful distillation of the principles of public service broadcasting submitted by the Broadcasting Research Unit to the Peacock Committee in 1985 showed that the old values that were in place in 1945 could still be made to fit the diverse and vastly changed system forty years on . |
| 16 | Overall , it 's a decent game for the curious and mechanically minded PC owner who thinks £20 is a good price . |
| 17 | Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing . |
| 18 | It stayed with her throughout the long and endlessly delayed journey across France . |
| 19 | Musgrave owes his reputation to the role he played in the complicated and imperfectly understood politics of the western Anglo-Scottish borders during the 1530s . |
| 20 | The older and best known way is as an ‘ organisation man ’ . |
| 21 | And given the prevailing prejudice against people actually speaking to each other , suitors and their intended sposi had to have recourse to the ambiguous and easily misunderstood language of fans and flowers . |
| 22 | It was far too early for the immaculate and highly paid receptionist to be in ; in fact , no one below the level of partner was present . |
| 23 | Evolutionary theory gave a natural origin to human institutions instead of the supernatural origin which was the received and legally sanctioned view in much of nineteenth-century Europe , and if institutions and ideas had a natural historical origin they could be changed in changing conditions . |
| 24 | In the winter of 1805–6 the Serbs went on the offensive and soon gained control of the whole of the pashalik , including the city of Belgrade . |
| 25 | Peru is suffering from two epidemics : one is the recent and widely reported outbreak of cholera which has infected over 200,000 people . |
| 26 | Including plays in the expensive and handsomely produced folio format announced the works as worthy of serious reading by serious readers . |
| 27 | In the energetic and art-historically minded care of Lady Victoria Leatham , Burghley has undergone major improvements in the form of restoration , cleaning and the cataloguing of the house 's contents . |