Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 2 | John Wain 's The Contenders ( 1958 ) ends with the most resonant and decorous of all English four-letter words , ‘ home ’ , and the emphasis on a familiar term is the concluding point of the novel : ‘ In English I said ‘ Home ’ . ’ |
| 3 | Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury has the kind of reputation that suggests even the switchboard ought to answer with ‘ Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury — the most controversial and innovative agency in Britain ’ . |
| 4 | The story is long , complicated and just a part of one of the most controversial and problematic developments in the creation of the English canal system , a story admirably told in Charles Hadfield 's The Canals of the East Midlands and more fully still in Philip Stevens ' The Leicester Line . |
| 5 | She has been one of the liveliest , most controversial and forthright MPs at Westminster during her ten years in the House . |
| 6 | But this is most unnecessary and cruel too . |
| 7 | When we looked out the sea-gulls did seem to be weaving in and out and making rather strange but happy sounds — almost as if they were a bit tipsy — and as it turned out , such was the case . |
| 8 | But I personally feel that these two books are not just blood and gore , for they both actually have deep , rather strange and mysterious story lines , and not the usual one of an horrific axe-murderer ! |
| 9 | I 'd like to see erm there is still in this country a reluctance on the part of erm the lower social and economic class children and families to continue in education erm This leads to a position in which , a situation in which in , in the workplace and elsewhere the educated person is still regarded as a , as a sort of rather strange and alien minority person . |
| 10 | then , of course , they have the most polite and efficient cabin crew in the business . |
| 11 | I , I do n't say that it was like being grilled by the K G B he was most polite and courteous . |
| 12 | In her most polite and charming voice , she said , ‘ My name is Anabelle . |
| 13 | So you have a very particular view of the constitution , that given by the founding fathers and one which is still in force some seventy eighty years later as America headed towards its most momentous and divisive crisis in its history . |
| 14 | The Castilian fleet , based in the Cantabrian coast ports , was perhaps the most professional and well-organized navy in western Europe in the 1360s and 1370s , and it was well placed both to attack English shipping on the route between England and Bordeaux and to harry the south coast of England . |
| 15 | The service is tremendously friendly and efficient and it has some of the best ski schools in the world ( with instructors who speak English ) . |
| 16 | A. It is most annoying and frustrating that plant names tend to change , particularly in recent years , and Alternanthera is a typical example . |
| 17 | However , it is now widely ( and wisely ) accepted that screen-based communication is a weak platform for predominantly textual and numeric information and is more naturally the platform for sound and images . |
| 18 | ‘ It is at once the most absorbing and frustrating of professions , ’ he said . |
| 19 | There are many repeating features in this book , and one such is Dickens ' amazing ability to conjure up the most absurd but believable characters . |
| 20 | They 're ⅓ the weight of cast iron , yet incredibly strong and durable . |
| 21 | It is in the three largest works on the recording that Demidenko is at his very best , with incredibly strong and deep sonorities at the end of the C major Toccato , Adagio and Fugue , providing an almost terrifying conclusion to this monumental work . |
| 22 | Rangers jumping from a helicopter and spreading out in this same way , a little over-confident as many American soldiers tended to be , hyped up by TV and movie images to believe in their innate superiority . |
| 23 | In total contrast to this ancient village is the long stretch of beach , nightlife , bars and bodegas , all of which add up to make a holiday in Mojacar a most memorable and enjoyable one . |
| 24 | It was the nineteenth century 's most distinctive contribution to building types and that century was to see the creation of the majority of the most memorable and pleasing railway stations . |
| 25 | Sensible ideas and suggestions ( like how to get your ski boots properly dry and warm ) , and helpful hints in blue boxes . |
| 26 | Frederick Meymott , Clerk of the Southwark Court of Requests , whose Analysis of 1830 has already been referred to , thought the latter was the most usual and advisable course . |
| 27 | But these priorities have been predominantly short-term and fluctuating and often in open contradiction with the formal longer-term objectives of the railways . |
| 28 | The English Civil War ( 1642–1651 ) is one of the most turbulent and complex chapters of British history . |
| 29 | Die Grünen is generally regarded as the most turbulent and self-destructive of the Green parties , but its internal quarrels are , says Sara Parkin in her guide to the European Greens , ‘ only a more flagrant example ’ of what goes on in all the parties . |
| 30 | In fact what he called the " auditory imagination " was always his most powerful faculty , the most subtle and complex instrument at his disposal which he deserted at his peril . |