Example sentences of "is [art] [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the highest purely academic appointment . |
| 2 | Beta Hydri is the nearest fairly prominent star to the South Pole , but it is still over 12 degrees away from the polar point . |
| 3 | Beta Boo¨tis ( 3.5 ) is the nearest fairly bright star to the radiant of the meteor shower seen in early January , known as the Quadrantid shower because this was the region of a constellation , Quadrans ( the Quadrant ) which was proposed by J. E. Bode in 1775 but which has been deleted from modern maps . |
| 4 | Getting the basic underlying grid structure right is the simple most important step towards getting better looking pages . |
| 5 | It is the singular most difficult shot in golf — he must have been 50 yards from the pin with a soft lie and he had all the trap to clear . |
| 6 | If gonorrhoea is the commonest venereal disease , then non-specific infection is the commonest sexually transmitted disease — the difference being one of definition . |
| 7 | Mr Hockney , 55 , has taken his role as designer seriously — this is the first completely new Hockney design to be seen at Covent Garden . |
| 8 | At 18 , Wren Karen McCurdy is the first fully qualified female Port Diver in the Royal Naval Reserve . |
| 9 | This is the first fully operational implementation of the new International Standard Directory Service [ X500 ] in any UK university . |
| 10 | So the report before you is the first real annual report on Equal Opportunities Inter County Council , so you 've got all the relevant statistics and in that sense it compliments the previous report that you 've just examined . |
| 11 | The GMP ‘ Legend ’ is the first really successful model to feature a so-called ‘ flybarless ’ rotor head . |
| 12 | This is the first really high pass of the Pyrenees , 3,500 feet up , and a suitably stark spot once you have risen above the trees of the valley . |
| 13 | Buried deep within the entrails of the US budget compromise is the first apparently successful attempt on Capitol Hill to come down heavily on junk bonds and leveraged buyouts ( LBO ) . |
| 14 | The Islington Crime Survey ( ICS ) of 1985 was the first study to focus solely on an inner city area According to the Department of the Environment Islington is the seventh most deprived area of England and the fifth worst area where housing is concerned . |
| 15 | Perinatal mortality is the seventh most common cause of death and only one-third of all deliveries or miscarriages received medical attention in 1975 . |
| 16 | THE second law of thermodynamics always arouses interest because it is the only widely applicable law of physics that is not symmetric under time reversal , and so singles out a particular direction of time . |
| 17 | Today Gulmarg in Kashmir is the only reasonably developed ski area . |
| 18 | It is the only wholly unscientific statement in an otherwise wholly scientific book . |
| 19 | The newest university , at Buckingham , is the only one to receive no support from public funds — it is the only wholly private university . |
| 20 | A later non-conformist chapel is the only relatively recent addition to the hamlet , otherwise it demonstrates Brian Robert 's original ‘ rural nucleated cluster ’ almost exactly ( Fig. 50 ) . |
| 21 | There are , basically , two philosophies about competitors ' media selection : to compete in the same media , because ‘ we must be seen to compete ’ or because it is the only really possible medium or ( even ) because ‘ they must know something ’ ; or to try to avoid the competition and to ‘ dominate ’ a reasonable alternative medium . |
| 22 | Anyone brought up a Catholic will tell you the vow of celibacy is the only really lively bit of the Church 's teaching . |
| 23 | This is the only really objectionable thing about Odyssey 's odyssey ; a daily communion with good and evil is not in any way the experience of the characters in Macbeth . |
| 24 | The Commissioner herself is the only legally qualified person in her office , and it is not surprising to learn that Treasury solicitor 's advice is often sought before a decision is made to grant assistance or not |
| 25 | The Public Media Center ( PMC ) is the only fully fledged advertising agency in the USA devoted to public service issues . |
| 26 | One of the major concerns about dogs is the slight yet potential danger to human health which exists from the parasitic worm called Toxocara canis . |
| 27 | The two-day tournament at Trevelyan College is the third most prestigious event in the home Scrabble calendar , after the national and British matchplay championships . |
| 28 | If a teenager has been feeling acutely depressed for some time , then it may only take a trigger such as exams , to tip her over the edge ( suicide is the third most common cause of death among the under 25s , and the peak months are April to July ) . |
| 29 | Surprisingly , fog is the third most important hazard in Europe after floods and volcanoes . |
| 30 | With 39 caps to his credit , Thomson is the third most capped Scot , behind Charlie Green and George Macgregor . |