Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also worth pointing out that the ELR can field one of the most representative ranges of ex-Western motive power , as the steam fleet can be supplemented by ex-BR ( WR ) diesel-hydraulics , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The miners ' strike will give us an opportunity to discuss the militarization of the police , one of the most noticeable as well as one of the most controversial trends of recent years . |
| 4 | The most controversial elements of the new law were its provisions defining recognizable and legitimate political parties and groups for electoral purposes . |
| 5 | The most controversial sections of the Education Reform Act are those which allow secondary schools and primary schools with 300 or more pupils to opt out of local authority control . |
| 6 | One of the most controversial areas of intervention by these new-style Labour councils was Equal Opportunities . |
| 7 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 8 | Such freedom is one of the most controversial areas in the scheme . |
| 9 | Philippe Perrin , an artist whose activity also embraces writing , music and film-making , is one of the most controversial figures on the contemporary French scene . |
| 10 | The case became a public examination of one of the most controversial episodes at the end of the Second World War when under the Yalta agreement the British were obliged to hand over to their authorities all East European prisoners . |
| 11 | The very specimens to which Gould refers so casually in his letter , particularly those which came to be known as ‘ Darwin 's finches ’ , were to spark off one of the most controversial theories of all time . |
| 12 | One of the most controversial uses of the power is to prevent demonstrators reaching the scene of the demonstration , a use upheld by the courts in Moss & Others v. McLachlan ( H.C. , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | And , what is more , I would have instructed the ministers , as far as the Prime Minister can instruct another minister , to take the decisions in their committees and only bring the really most controversial aspects of particular bills to Cabinet . |
| 17 | The duke 's motivation is one of the most controversial aspects of the period . |
| 18 | The question of humankind 's origin from the apes was one of the most controversial aspects of Darwin 's theory . |
| 19 | One of the most controversial aspects of the 1985 Act was the way in which crucially important services hitherto provided by the GLC and the six ‘ mets ’ were transferred not to elected second-tier authorities but to non-directly elected joint boards . |
| 20 | Tax increases were avoided but spending on a wide variety of government programmes was frozen or limited ; one of the most controversial aspects of the budget was the plan to place a two-year freeze on increases in federal transfer payments to provinces for health care and secondary education programmes . |
| 21 | Amongst the most controversial aspects of the Bush budget was the proposed $46,600 million reductions in Medicare funding and other entitlement programmes cuts over the next five years . |
| 22 | The duke 's motivation is one of the most controversial aspects of the period . |
| 23 | Mr. Harrison 's careful and closely argued submissions opened by pointing out what he described as the ‘ commercially absurd consequences of the landlord 's case . ’ |
| 24 | The RUC was excluded from policy making on security and even most administrative decisions of consequence . |
| 25 | Patriotism and religion combined in what must surely be one of the most emotional reactions of the Greeks to the impact of an alien society . |
| 26 | One of the most emotional times for anyone . |
| 27 | ‘ Rather strange circumstances for a meeting . ’ |
| 28 | Perhaps the most noted examples of this kind of structure are provided by the Henry Mountains in Utah , U S A ( Fig. 5.19 ) . |
| 29 | But it is very lately that the truly magnificent taste in gardening has flourished in these northern parts of Europe , for although in King Charles the Second 's reign there was great spirit amongst the nobility and gentry of England for planting and gardening , which spirit was greatly heighten 'd in King William 's reign , during which time most of the large gardens of England were laid out and planted , yet we find the taste at that time extended little farther than to small pieces of box-wood , finish 'd parterres and clipp 'd greens , all of which are now generally banished out of the gardens of the most polite persons of this age , who justly prefer the more extended rural designs of gardens which approach the nearest to nature . |
| 30 | A new relationship has begun , with the most momentous consequences for life , and we are going to look at some of those consequences soon . |