Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 2 | How did this greatest and most awe-inspiring of the great cats come to make the East its special domain ? |
| 3 | The Yugoslav federation entered a period of severe political crisis in mid-March , following the violent suppression on March 9 of an anti-communist demonstration in Belgrade , the federal capital and capital of Serbia , largest and most influential of the six republics in the federation . |
| 4 | Romania , the largest and most influential of the three , makes items in a wide range of qualities , sizes and designs ( pl. 25 ) . |
| 5 | Much else in the city centre has been cleaned and restored : the neo-Romanesque Central Station of 1905 , in whose gilded ticket hall contemporary music is played ; the Gothic cathedral , the largest and most impressive in the Low Countries ; and the Grote Markt , an irregular triangle of 16th-century guild houses ( Antwerp is a town of asymmetry : one of the cathedral 's twin towers is only half-built ) . |
| 6 | If the conflicts have been most evident in direct cultural production , they have been most complex and most general in the crucial formative area of education , where the direct controls of established institutions of reproduction have been easier to maintain , largely because the influence of market forces has been very much less relevant , and the only major factor of asymmetry has been the ( always practically weaker ) claim of professional and cultural independence . |
| 7 | In the late 1060s and 1070s Hildebrand , later Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) , gave more consistent support to the last and most effective of the Patarine leaders , Erlembald , a noble demagogue ; and Milan became a theatre of war between the pope and the Emperor Henry IV . |
| 8 | THE fourth quarter of the year is our busiest and most profitable in the pre-Christmas trading period . |
| 9 | The Renaissance is frequently presented as what is truest , best , and most pleasing about the early modern period . |
| 10 | We have described the policies that we advocate as the ’ ethics of community ’ — as something that calls on what is best and most generous in the human spirit . |
| 11 | This is when it can look most puzzling and most comical to the ignorant . |
| 12 | Professor Hugh Simpson provided expertise in engineering and was the liveliest and most questioning of the three . |
| 13 | Vignemale has the best and most photogenic of the Pyrenean glaciers , on its eastern or left-hand flank , a genuine tongue of ice , reaching downwards . |
| 14 | He soon became involved with cricket , first as a boy earning pennies as a longstop on the Montpellier ground , Brighton , but soon as a member of the famous All-England Eleven , the original and most reputable of the great Exhibition teams . |
| 15 | The Heath was preserved as an open space and by 1900 the country villas of prosperous businessmen and professional families made Hampstead ‘ one of the largest and most prosperous of the well-to-do residential suburbs of London ’ . |
| 16 | The commonest and most widespread of the larger gulls , very variable in size ; males average larger than females . |
| 17 | The Knights Panther is one of the oldest and most respected of the Knightly Orders , tracing its origins back to the times of the Crusades against Araby . |
| 18 | Once the wealthiest and most populous of the great powers , in 1880 she had 15.7 per cent of the European population . |
| 19 | National assertiveness reached the largest and most important of the Soviet Union 's republics , the Russian , in May 1990 , following the elections to the republican Congress of People 's Deputies in which radical candidates had won a substantial proportion of the vote ( see above , p. 59 ) . |
| 20 | In practice real power was largely in the hands of Holland , much the richest and most important of the seven provinces , and particularly in those of its chief official , the Grand Pensionary . |
| 21 | The largest and most southerly of the Greek islands , Crete is a perfect combination of modern tourism totally enveloped in the remains of Europe 's first civilisation . |
| 22 | Like many visitors before me , I got my first taste of Greece on crete , the largest and most southerly of the Greek islands . |
| 23 | As an NME writer at the beginning of the 1980s Paul Morley was the most pretentious and most entertaining of the new pop theorists . |
| 24 | More than once he was sadly mistaken and duly disappointed with the human material at hand ; nonetheless , he succeeded in transforming an almost dormant pre-1939 Law School at University College , London , into a flourishing and internationally leading Law Faculty . |
| 25 | This will be fine for stocking stitch but if your 1x1 pattern is a tuck stitch , for example Fisherman 's rib , then the 1x1 rib welt will look thin and rather limp against the main fabric . |
| 26 | In P4/T2.2 , we have and ( simultaneously , as it happens ) and so pivoting in the second and third columns of P4/T2 gives efficient tableaux . |
| 27 | The intense reading in mysticism emphasized by Gordon and Hay and so prominent in the 1926 Clark Lectures no doubt played its part in his 1927 conversion , but so did his allied interest in primitive civilizations . |
| 28 | Here there is plenty of land , safely remote from towns , and so suitable for the large size of refineries . |
| 29 | The French stood in sharp contrast to all this ; their main energies were directed at expansion in Europe , with the Netherlands marked down as a particularly attractive target , but they were so rich , so dynamic , and so confident in the second half of the seventeenth century that they were quite willing — as asserted in the motto of their great king , Louis XIV , nec pluribus impar — to fight several enemies at once . |
| 30 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |