Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most resonant phrases in the whole debate came from the pro-rights organiser who suggested that future centuries would come to regard our attitude to animals with the same horrified disbelief we now feel for the periods which practised slavery . |
| 2 | The most controversial attack in the air war occurred in the early hours of Feb. 13 when US aircraft destroyed an air raid shelter in the Amiriya district of western Baghdad . |
| 3 | Such freedom is one of the most controversial areas in the scheme . |
| 4 | The introduction of grant-maintained schools was perhaps the most controversial proposal in the Education Reforms Act 1988 , and one which was justified primarily on the grounds that it would extend parental choice in education . |
| 5 | On the other hand , Ivan Lendl supports such a change , stating ‘ It 's the most controversial call in the game . |
| 6 | Its new home , at the other end of what El Pais called the ‘ the most controversial kilometre in the history of contemporary art ’ , was Spain 's new Reina Sofia modern art centre . |
| 7 | I loathe the metal crate in which ‘ Guernica ’ travelled along ‘ the most controversial kilometre in the history of contemporary art ’ , to settle in its new mansion , where it will serve as a pernicious example to future generations . |
| 8 | This has been described as the most controversial Article in the International Law Commission draft . |
| 9 | This has been one of the most controversial clauses in the Act and was deleted in the House of Lords but reinstated by the government . |
| 10 | The name of King Charles I , which had been excluded from the prayer Book for over 100 years , is one of the most controversial inclusions in the ASB calendar . |
| 11 | The most controversial item in this low-key list was the establishment of a competitive VAN sector ; but even this was already under way in France and well advanced in Britain . |
| 12 | The main tenets of this were nationalisation of foreign concessions , expropriation of large landed estates ( although it was not specified to whom they should be transferred , an omission reflecting the ambivalent attitudes regarding the role of the peasantry , which proved one of the most controversial issues in the debates between Latin American and Soviet Marxisms ) , repudiation of the national debt , rejection of imperialist control over the economy , the fight for an eight-hour day and the ‘ stamping out of semi-slave-like conditions of labour ’ . |
| 13 | This was the Olympic final of the Blue Riband 100 metres freestyle and the race that produced the most controversial result in swimming history . |
| 14 | Firstly , I hope to clarify what spiritual direction is — and what it is not — for it represents a tremendously rich tradition in the church 's history which , by its very nature , has been both a hidden and profound influence in the lives of many . |
| 15 | Her man was Willie Johnson , the player at the centre of the most emotional scandal in the history of Scottish football , and a figure of such sentimental intensity , he should have played for Nashville . |
| 16 | Maxim looked round at his taxi-driver , who had parked two wheels on the pavement with the usual German disregard for the tyres , and got a nod and a rather strange smile in return . |
| 17 | In the event , Leeds chose to play a rather strange formation in which McAllister operated at right-back and Speed was anywhere but where he is most effective , on the left flank . |
| 18 | In a month when Harpers & Queen magazine devotes several pages to the lost art of manners , it may seem strange that parents should send their daughters from the most polite nation in the world to this newly graceless country . |
| 19 | The following year , however , the Party took what was perhaps its most momentous decision in the mountains a few miles south of the Chinese border . |
| 20 | The third most momentous event in papal history , which would have meant much to Innocent III and to all visitors to the Lateran , was the great struggle for dominion between the pope and the emperor , known as the Investiture Contest . |
| 21 | On 24 August A.D. 79 , with all its preliminary stirrings ignored , Vesuvius burst into life , and one of the most momentous eruptions in history commenced . |
| 22 | THURSDAY 22 November 1990 was one of the most momentous days in modern British politics . |
| 23 | March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France . |
| 24 | The Malayan Emergency was never officially recognised as a ‘ war ’ however it embroiled the hard-pressed Commonwealth forces in what was largely an operation of cunning and wit , pursuing a small , elusive army of bandits in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world . |
| 25 | He 's trekked across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world … and lived amongst its communities … |
| 26 | The challenge ahead … 5 laps , each more than 6 miles long , of the most inhospitable terrain in the Malvern Hills . |
| 27 | The challenge ahead … 5 laps , each more than 6 miles long , of the most inhospitable terrain in the Malvern Hills . |
| 28 | Within 20 years and army of ‘ bluebellies ’ , little different in appearance form the troopers led by Crook and Miles on the Southern Plains , would be transformed into a huge khaki-clad nation at arms , facing the machine guns , tanks and heavy artillery of the most professional army in the world in the trenches of France . |
| 29 | Knight-editor of the most professional paper in the history of Fleet Street , the only upmarket tabloid , the newspaperman 's newspaper , the one that ( according to its current advertising ) is only read by the Better Bred . |
| 30 | For anybody in business the two DTP packages we have , NeoPaint and Envision Publisher , are the most professional packages in the shareware market today and at less than one hundred pounds the pair they are the biggest bargain this year . |