Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My personal view is that the latter direction represents the more promising future . |
| 2 | The industry award produces the most varied shortlist . |
| 3 | Once again Transend Services and Practical PC bring the very best of Shareware products direct to your home or office . |
| 4 | This variety of lily produces the most beautiful fully-double white blooms — possibly the best white lily ever cultivated . |
| 5 | On the basis of a literature review the most recent Effective Health Care bulletin questions such frequent intervention . |
| 6 | The tawny owl produces the most representative prey assemblage from its habitat , including rare species , but the barn owl preserves the original community equitability more closely by concentrating on the more common species at the expense of missing the rare species . |
| 7 | A survey of graduate employers has selected Cambridge as the University producing the most employable graduates . |
| 8 | Jane , because she was a mistress , rarely had an opportunity to attend the more elegant events of society , and she was not going to miss this chance of being seen at a duchess 's ball . |
| 9 | The trip to London , scheduled for a weekend in November , provides the opportunity to see the highly acclaimed ‘ Phantom of the Opera ’ . |
| 10 | These authors argue that in the ‘ brideservice societies ’ , a category encompassing the relatively egalitarian hunting and gathering peoples and those that have a mixed economy of hunting , gathering , small-scale horticulture , the association of sexuality and violence , which is but a particular type of sexual oppression , plays a central role in all political and much social action . |
| 11 | Summary trial covers the less serious offences and is commenced by the laying of information and a summons . |
| 12 | The faster the heart beats the more rapidly we may be inclined to breathe and the more oxygen we take in . |
| 13 | Their combined experience built the most influential agency house in Canton , its fleet flying Scotland 's cross of St Andrew with colours reversed . |
| 14 | The inconspicuous dunnock has the most variable mating system of any known bird . |
| 15 | But that was no longer true at election time : as the election approached the highly educated became less interested and the less well educated became more interested ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 16 | Of the three , home helps are the most and GP visits the least substitutable , and the pattern of receipt of statutory services varies accordingly . |
| 17 | From his pulpit thundered the most extraordinary denunciations of violations and abuses . |
| 18 | For record companies , it now became a question of who could pay the most money to secure the most in-demand acts . |
| 19 | Indeed , the user has the most direct link with the finished product and has ultimate control but may , nevertheless , rely to a great extent on the programs and information contained in the database . |
| 20 | For example , suppose the syntactic component used the pair-wise parsing process mentioned above to decide between different lexical hypotheses . |
| 21 | The Red Crescent has the most work to do of any member of the International Committee of the Red Cross . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is still possible to select a sample narrative representing the most " typical " narrative produced by all the groups . |
| 23 | What can be discounted as nonsense on the other hand is the conclusion drawn by a Soviet historian with regard to the Tambov revolt : ‘ In that period the kulaks ’ political banditry became the most important means of struggle by international imperialism , Antonov could not even make contact with subversive elements in Kursk guberniia , let alone London . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd like something little and gay , ’ said the woman , smiling at Melanie from a mouth painted the very palest possible orange . |
| 25 | The map is shown in false colour , where yellow represents the most dense and blue the least dense areas . |
| 26 | As John Drysdale 's body was wracked by 11,000 volts in a farming accident , his unconscious mind experienced the most beautiful feeling of his life . |
| 27 | The unique programme offers the very best in quality training and the award recognises the council 's use of new technology in that programme . |
| 28 | It is possible to produce lace from any stitch design , including those meant for Fair Isle , which of course means that you could knit a cardigan or jacket in Fair Isle or jacquard and then knit a lace sweater using the very same stitch pattern to supplement it . |
| 29 | The French settlements along the river St. Lawrence had no such attractions ; the peasant farmers who settled along the river were probably better off than if they had stayed at home , but they could not produce enough revenue to support the fairly lavish military , civil , and ecclesiastical establishment that had been set up there as well . |
| 30 | But as he proved at Knowsley Road on Sunday , although he may have descended into relative obscurity he still possesses exceptional powers of motivation , with his Dewsbury side producing the most impressive performance of the Regal Trophy so far . |