Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take into account the incredibly high standards of service in the excellent hotels and you have every possible ingredient for the ultimate holiday experience . |
| 2 | In the predominantly German districts of northwest Pomerania , however , 14 of the 34 districts recorded a decline in their population in the same period . |
| 3 | The unity of the ending is a fairy tale happy-ever-after that provides a jolting contrast to the grimly realistic descriptions of misogyny and racial hatred . |
| 4 | Dialectal English ; language in which the widely accepted rules of grammar and syntax are not necessarily observed . |
| 5 | Much of the discussion took place in the IWC 's scientific committee , which met before the conference proper , with arguments centring on the widely varying estimates of minke numbers . |
| 6 | For such results show the police to be ‘ on the side of righteousness ’ , arraigned with the numerically superior forces of goodness and order in their fight against darkness and the void . |
| 7 | One of the most influential types of power is called expert power . |
| 8 | Amidst the highly sophisticated medical research of the Nineties , new interest is being shown in one of the most ancient forms of healing . |
| 9 | But I do not believe that these trends fundamentally affect my case , for the most radical criticisms of medicine come , not from such illness groups , but from ‘ minorities ’ who have seen medical dominance as reproducing the class relations which have brought about their oppressed status , e. g. radical women 's movements and black urban Americans . |
| 10 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 11 | Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it . |
| 12 | A king who drew scholars to his court from afar , surrounded himself with them , sought their help in formulating his edicts , used them as his agents and publicists , was following the example of the most successful rulers of antiquity . |
| 13 | One of the most successful machine-guns of World War I was the American designed , air-cooled , drum-fed Lewis . |
| 14 | When a church is in her infancy there will be the most visible signs of growth , as with a child . |
| 15 | Gesualdo , after publishing four books of not particularly individual madrigals in the Rore-Wert tradition ( 1594–6 ) , brought out two more in 1611 in which chromatic alteration simultaneously in several parts produces the most extraordinary effects of dislocation ( often alternating with very commonplace diatonic passages ) . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most extraordinary examples of animal camouflage are those in which the animals concerned have evolved into mimics of specific details in their backgrounds . |
| 17 | Critics of the most recent studies of compound 1080 say that they prove only that the chemical is lethal to coyotes — not that it can prevent or significantly decrease predation of flocks . |
| 18 | The most recent estimates of employment by parliamentary constituency are from the September 1989 census of employment , when there were 25,100 employees in employment in the Leeds , West constituency . |
| 19 | In fact the most recent reconstructions of Viking figures are very carefully based on evidence and are the result of a great deal of lengthy scientific research . |
| 20 | The varied articles presented introduce the reader to some of the most recent strands of linguistics and literary studies but they can not be thought to constitute a unified discipline . |
| 21 | An understanding of an economic project , distinct from , but complementary to , an exercise in political legitimation , helps to decode the most recent expressions of concern for the ever ailing inner city . |
| 22 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |
| 23 | Lastly , there are the libraries at the colleges , ranging from Oxford and Cambridge to the most recent amalgamations of teacher-training and technical colleges . |
| 24 | Anne de Villepoix displays corsets and maps : the most recent labours of designer Peter Fond , presented in collaboration with Cymo , Jansen , Vetorlank and Sophie Vieille . |
| 25 | One of the most widely-appreciated uses of SYMAP in the UK was Rosing and Wood ( 1971 ) who produced an atlas of Birmingham and the Black Country . |
| 26 | One of the most curious symptoms of candidiasis is a craving for sugary foods or for foods containing yeast . |
| 27 | The fellow loudly claimed he had in his battered , leather coffer some of the most marvellous relics of Christendom : ‘ One of Charlemagne 's teeth ! ’ he yelled . |
| 28 | Pigs are the most efficient sources of animal protein ever domesticated : 35 per cent of the food a pig consumes is converted to meat , compared to 13 per cent for sheep and 6.5 per cent for cattle . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that Homo sapiens has been one of the most efficient agents of extinction in the history of the earth . |
| 30 | One of the most useful sources of documentary evidence is that afforded by maps and plans , particularly if they are of large estates and augmented by written records . |