Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 2 | Hence his reluctance to start painting before he had mastered the incredibly difficult art of drawing — and drawing the figure especially . |
| 3 | From the token half dozen kits from Malaysia we can also see not only the difference in basic shape , but also the lavishly conspicuous consumption of gold paint to provide an overall decoration of either flowers or clouds . |
| 4 | He also claims that negligence finding was made without evidence being led demonstrating the manner in which he did not reach the professionally required standard of care . |
| 5 | Ismael Hassan Metareum , from the predominantly Moslem province of Aceh in northern Sumatra , was seen as a relative moderate , acceptable to both the armed forces and the government . |
| 6 | In a short study it is impossible to deal in depth with the vastly complex web of politics that surrounded Barbarossa ; a glance at the list of popes shows just how complex the situation was ; hardly had any pope become established and negotiations opened , than another was taking his place . |
| 7 | In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic , fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948 . |
| 8 | The vastly increased use of Place of Safety Orders — a quarter of all admissions in one study ( Millham et al. , 1986 ) , a third in another ( Packman et al . , |
| 9 | This provides the reason why it was once extensively cultivated in the Aube , where its more southerly location and lack of limestone subsoil sometimes renders wines lacking the desirably high degree of acidity required for classic Champagnes . |
| 10 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 11 | The bill identifies much of the blame for the tremendously high rate of deforestation in India as belonging to the adivasis or tribal peoples , who have been systematically marginalised and impoverished for over a thousand years , and who have now retreated into the mountains and remaining forests of central India ( a close-up case study is provided of a tribal group , the Sora , in sect. 7.4 ) . |
| 12 | The one big difference lies in the fundamentally rural character of feudalism . |
| 13 | It is this emphasis on supplementary rather than substitute care ( Davis , 1981 ) , growing out of a recognition of the fundamentally shared nature of parenting , which should be the driving force behind a new direction for child care policy . |
| 14 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 15 | " The basis of such a union " was " the social market economy … determined particularly by private ownership , the free establishment of prices and the fundamentally full freedom of movement of labour , capital , goods and services " . |
| 16 | By 1902 her fame as a hard-headed , cigar-smoking , businesswoman , capable of holding her own with the shrewdest of her male rivals in the intensely competitive world of industry , had already won her recognition ( from the Pall Mall Gazette ) as ‘ one of the most remarkable women in Great Britain' , famous enough to be caricatured by the Punch cartoonist , Bert Thomas , in the comic journal Ally Sloper in 1904 . |
| 17 | From the producers ' point of view , the powerfully addictive quality of sugar became an important asset , resulting in an almost infinitely elastic demand . |
| 18 | The significant sentence read as follows : ‘ The part of the father , played by an actor unfamiliar to me , Charles Paris , grows in stature through the evening until the powerfully climactic scene of confrontation with his daughter . ’ |
| 19 | And , to the cynically analytical mind which Charles usually applied to praise , the review could be read to mean that the part grew in stature until the powerfully climactic scene of confrontation with his daughter , at which point , in the hands of this actor , it diminished considerably . |
| 20 | Labour productivity in the overwhelmingly preponderant sector of society , subsistence agriculture , was very low , so any net surplus was small . |
| 21 | It is the location of central government , of the headquarters of many major firms , and it is , as will be seen in Chapter 3 , the overwhelmingly dominant centre of banking and finance ; it is the home of ‘ the City ’ . |
| 22 | The pulsar is a member of the slowly growing class of millisecond pulsars with low-mass companions . |
| 23 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 24 | To own land was to possess , not only a symbol of status , but also the most prized source of wealth and power . |
| 25 | The most influential voice of support for the Scottish Equitable board 's proposal will come form the independent actuary . |
| 26 | Two volumes of collected essays by Clement Greenberg document the critic 's emergence as the most influential champion of modernism during its American ascendance after World War II : volume 3 of The Collected Essays and Criticism is titled Affirmations and Refusals , 1950–56 , volume 4 Modernism with a Vengeance , 1957–1969 ( each £23.95 , $29.95 ) . |
| 27 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 28 | And the most influential sociologist of culture is , without parallel , Pierre Bourdieu . |
| 29 | Throwing money at a problem is the most ineffective form of management . |
| 30 | The alternative to keeping quiet about these problems is , of course , to deny their very existence , and the prize for the most successful campaign of VD eradication , or alternatively the rarest piece of dissembling , must go to Communist China which claims to have got rid of syphilis in the ten years after 1950 . |