Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to use the bomb remains the most controversial and probably the most important of the Second World War . |
| 2 | It includes some of the most controversial and most significant for social services . |
| 3 | When artificially illuminated from below , the effect of the countershading is reversed — the trumpet fish looks strikingly solid and highly conspicuous . |
| 4 | Also , status may form the basis of political power — Weber saw this as especially relevant in the case of the German Junker aristocracy , who were economically weak but still held the reins of political power . |
| 5 | In any case Napoleon III was not worried by Austria ; economically weak and diplomatically isolated as a result of her erratic policy during the Crimean War , she was no threat to France . |
| 6 | He moved a little nearer but still kept close to cover . |
| 7 | But because it is essentially Brose 's show , the biggest should go to Mr Hoffman , who must be reckoned one of the most agile and subtly controlled comedians around . |
| 8 | That night , they filmed the most memorable and supposedly dramatic scene in the picture , the one in which Nicholson does his monologue on what is wrong with American society , for which he became famous . |
| 9 | Within just one NME article , Stuart Maconie wrote that they ‘ talked ordinary , dressed ordinary , ’ and were ‘ screamingly normal and terribly ordinary . ’ |
| 10 | This , then , was Mary 's inheritance : by a combination of political circumstances , luck , strong personalities on the throne and sheer nerve and drive , she was heir to a remarkably stable and remarkably outward-looking society , whose kings commanded a great deal of respect , and exercised a great deal of power . |
| 11 | ‘ We believe the case is overwhelmingly strong and extremely important for the heritage of the country ’ , Mr Empson said . |
| 12 | Chlorinated hydrocarbons , which are some of the most persistent and environmentally damaging of the industrial chemicals , and the industrial organochlorides known as polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) , are particularly soluble in fatty tissues . |
| 13 | It 's incredibly idiosyncratic but incredibly self-confident within that . |
| 14 | It is not possible or useful to provide an encyclopaedic account of the collectivities existing ‘ within ’ the economic classes in Britain but this section pursues the analysis of two rather broad and vaguely defined , yet nonetheless politically and culturally important , social collectivities : the ‘ working class ’ and the ‘ middle class ’ , as these terms are used by ‘ ordinary people ’ and formalised by sociologists . |
| 15 | It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy . |
| 16 | Mr Mansell Griffiths , a consultant ENT surgeon , says : ‘ Robotic surgery will be considered by a large body of practising surgeons as unacceptable , wholly impractical and perhaps even unethical . |
| 17 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 18 | Boiled Eggs , skulls & skinheads ( no doubt many more ) but skinhead was the wittiest , most descriptive & most difficult to say without sneering . |
| 19 | When Mrs Whatsit asks him tonight why her little Johnny is n't making more progress with his English , Iain McWhirter will reply that progress is not to be expected from a boy who is abysmally lazy and congenitally stupid . ’ |
| 20 | Overall , Browne is representative of the English florid style of choral composition at not only its most assured but also at its most imaginative . |
| 21 | The Empire is home to some of the most innovative and technically able minds in the Old World . |
| 22 | Helen Urvill , elegantly tall and judiciously lean , straight thick hair obsidian black , dress combat-casual , back on holiday from Switzerland and looking as thoroughly kempt as ever , passed the lager can to me . |
| 23 | Does he agree that the use of national insurance contributions as an underhand tax is fundamentally dishonest and that early retirers , widows and those on limited incomes would be hurt by the imposition of a savings tax as proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 24 | Where , then , may we look for hopeful areas of peace , ways in which this new overwhelmingly destructive and readily deployable force may be contained , not just for a few years , but in our minuscule timespan , for ever ? |
| 25 | He has been most supportive and indeed we have the Canon to thank that our Centenary Celebrations have taken the form they have , and I think you will agree it has been a very fitting culmination to our 100 years history . |
| 26 | I simply wished to describe the most specific and doubtless least familiar , aspects of what we have done . |
| 27 | He had seated himself in an armchair adjacent to the settee to which Elisa had naturally returned although now she was sitting rather prim and upright on the edge . |
| 28 | PATRONS : The most Reverend and Right honourable the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr George Carey BD Mth Phd Cliff Richard OBE General Eva Burrows OA Head of Salvation Army |
| 29 | But … he devised the first , most complete and most sophisticated learning package for those who wished to study organisational development ’ . |
| 30 | The most complete and reliably dated sequence comes from near Little Loch Roag , Lewis ( Birks and Madsen , 1979 ) . |