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

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31 In the 1860s Gaskell , Deacon & Co. was among the largest and most successful chemical works in Widnes , owing to Gaskell 's commercial management and Deacon 's method of recovering chlorine for bleaching-powder manufacture .
32 By the age of 35 he had become the youngest president of the largest and most prominent synagogue in Canada ; brilliantly engineered the merging of all the philanthropic societies of Montreal ( ‘ With a view to obtaining the greatest efficiency with the least possible expense and labour , ’ — surely his own life-principle next to his religious and familial devotions ) ; and placed himself in the forefront of the social and economic battles of the period .
33 The Orphists were not adequately represented at this Salon , since Delaunay himself refused to show there , but at the Indépendants of 1914 the Orphist canvases were so numerous and of such large dimensions that they had to be placed in the largest and most important hall on the ground floor .
34 Education after 1902 immediately became the largest and most important service provided by local government and has remained so ever since ( Regan 1979 ) .
35 The mouth of the River Exe is the largest and most important estuary for birds in the south-west peninsula of Devon and Cornwall .
36 At a cost of at least $1,900 million , the implementation of UNTAC would be the largest and most costly operation in the UN 's history .
37 The largest and most valuable part of the would-be treasure trove has disappeared altogether .
38 When the largest and most ambitious building projects , the so-called ‘ palaces ’ , are interpreted as temples , that preoccupation with religion is thrown into even higher relief .
39 The largest and most exciting lighting store in Great Britain is now open in the Kings Road .
40 The largest and most exciting lighting store in Great Britain is not open in the Kings Road .
41 As two leading historical demographers have recently stressed : " The largest and most obvious effect of the sharp rise in population in the eighteenth century was on the national average wage of labour . "
42 The largest and most significant effect of the glitch is seen to be the persistent change in slowdown rate , amounting to 0.04% .
43 With 36 dealing stations , it will be the largest and most sophisticated north of the border .
44 All were of the highest technical calibre and all displayed an extraordinary range of exuberant and exotic motifs , For a few years , until Justinian effectively eclipsed it by his construction of the church of St Sophia in 532–537 , st Polyeuktos was evidently the largest and most sumptuous church in Istanbul ( Constantinople ) .
45 That survey , which was carried out by Research International and is the largest and most detailed survey ever commissioned by the Revenue , is now complete .
46 The largest and most buzzard-like harrier of the region , with broader , more rounded wings and less graceful flight .
47 The largest and most well-equipped hotel in Alghero , the Baia Dei Conte is a real luxury hotel .
48 The Peace Ballot was the largest and most sustained mobilization ever undertaken by a British peace movement — ‘ an attempt to mobilise Public Opinion on the scale of a General Election , but on a single issue . ’
49 The Miners ' Federation , possibly because it was the largest and most militant component of the Trades Union Congress , gradually found itself isolated from the TUC General Council and its full-time officials in London .
50 The largest and most renowned house .
51 ‘ We can not rely on virtue ; it is weak and equivocal , or hidden and unknown ; … we must thus take as our starting-point only the possible and even probable abuse of power , ’ wrote another two generations later .
52 This no doubt explains why historians writing about Scotland in Mary 's minority have tended to sound more shocked about the activities of the Scottish nobility than historians of other contemporary societies , and find it harder to reconcile the idea of ideological commitment with changes of the political and even religious heart produced by additions to the pocket .
53 To refer once again to the unpredicted and possibly counter-productive side effects of the legal reform movement , the effect on the ‘ rules ’ question has been at most unfortunate in the eyes of many basic grade staff .
54 The alternative electrostatic headphones are by nature precision assemblies and , like electrostatic loudspeakers , remain firmly in the upper price bracket except where the simpler and less costly electret principle with a pre-charged diaphragm or backplate has been used .
55 Mainly because the defence of the territorial possessions of each individual church presented the clearest and most immediate duty of its head .
56 In this section we look at the arguments of Daniel Bell ( 1973 , 1980 ) which remain the clearest and most influential account of the changes involved in the transition from industrialism to post-industrialism .
57 This is the clearest and most concise account of the rejection of fussy Victorian historicism .
58 Ridges — in the loose sense of being high ground connecting summits — are natural highways and the clearest and most obvious way of making upland progress .
59 Grant has commented that this represents ‘ the clearest and least restrictive legislation authorisation for positive planning that now exists ’ .
60 It would have meant humiliation , and the end , without much chance of resurrection , of one of the shortest-lived and most disastrous party leaderships in British political history .
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