Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial issue raised during the visit related to Japan 's colonial occupation of Korea , and specifically the forced recruitment of thousands of Korean women — some historians suggested as many as 200,000 — to be used sexually by the Imperial Japanese Army fighting in China and South-East Asia . |
| 2 | The evidence for it is very thinly spread , although there is one rather strange letter written in this year to Mary Hutchinson , in which he questioned the importance which anyone attached to his friendship . |
| 3 | All too often , says Hooks , Black feminists fail to critically challenge the flawed assumption that the survival of Black people ’ depends on creating a cultural climate in which Black men can achieve manhood within paradigms constructed by white patriarchy ’ Those are just two examples of the powerfully pungent analyses contained in Talking Back . |
| 4 | What is known , is that approximately 200 enemy aircraft were encountered , in what was the most concentrated attack made on the 401st . |
| 5 | There is , however , a problem over the derivation of the result , for a rather subtle reason connected with the structure of the smaller-scale motions . |
| 6 | For example , neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , one of the techniques used to determine the composition of ancient ceramics , would be impossible without a computer program , since the calculations required are so complex and extensive that not even the most resilient individual armed with a pocket calculator could possibly complete them in a single lifetime . |
| 7 | The reforms are mostly technical adjustments aimed at penalising slow delivery of the ball into open play and reducing the number of place-kicks . |
| 8 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 9 | All other delegates representing altogether eight countries voted for them . |
| 10 | The most rural category labelled ‘ remoter , mainly rural districts ’ was the only one to record an upturn in population growth rate between the 1960s and 1970s and in the latter period recorded an overall growth rate second only to districts containing New Towns ( OPCS , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | The second widely used technique based on settling velocity is that of the sedimentation tube . |
| 12 | One the most widely used dialects included in the bill was Sardinian ; others were Ladino , Catalan , and the Occitan dialect existing mainly in southern France . |
| 13 | A widely used definition pitched at the macro-level is Maxwell 's ( Maxwell et al. |
| 14 | To take one of the most outstanding examples mentioned by Bob Bocock in one of his books , I forget which one it is now , but in one of his books , Bob Bocock er , mentions that the doyen of mid-twentieth century sociology , Talker Parsons , who some of you perhaps may never of heard of , but er , you certainly would have done in the sixties and seventies , because he really was the major fi figure in Anglo-American social theory . |
| 15 | Already though , by far the most persistent story centred on her relationship with her Neighbours co-star and long-time ‘ best friend ’ Jason Donovan . |
| 16 | The most persistent difficulty occurred whenever her mother fed the baby . |
| 17 | I now come to the most shameful escapades committed — to which I was a party . |
| 18 | were involuntary witnesses of wholly unnecessary violence inflicted by uniformed Blackshirts on interrupters . |
| 19 | England 's juniors , though , could at least console themselves that they had participated in one of the most enthralling matches played on English soil in recent years . |
| 20 | In one of the most enthralling finishes seen at a European Tour event this season , the 33 year-old Mancunian held his game together , coming down the stretch , to record his first Tour triumph in the European Open at Walton Heath . |
| 21 | Twenty-four hours later it would still have required access to a crystal ball to predict the result after some of the most enthralling encounters seen on a golf course since man first put club to ball . |
| 22 | These findings lend support to the view that persuading people to dispose of unused or rarely used medicines stored in the home might play a part in reducing the numbers of impulsive overdoses of these substances . |
| 23 | One of the rarely used facilities enjoyed by QFT is to be able to show films from the National Film Archive . |
| 24 | A Public Service Commission controlled all appointments ; there were 13 entrenched clauses which could only be altered by the vote of the five regional councils : a not altogether unbiased observer called this ‘ Government by Civil Servants behind a Parliamentary facade ’ . |
| 25 | Looked at from the perspective of land distribution and usage , Great Britain could be described as a predominantly agricultural kingdom based on the three countries of England , Scotland , and Wales . |
| 26 | Barbara 's rather narrow cheeks reddened with pleasure . |
| 27 | Silicon Graphics Inc is moving on down this this week , with the launch of new ‘ RISC PC ’ desktop systems , presumably ACE systems based upon the MIPS R4000 chip . |
| 28 | The proposed new law curbing this type of blatantly dishonest description given by some estate agents is not before time . |
| 29 | A seminar to take you from the fundamentals of Data Communications to the most advanced techniques implemented today — in just 3 days |
| 30 | In the area of hydrology have been some of the most specific contributions made by physical geographers including the analysis of increased discharges ( Hollis , 1975 ; Walling and Gregory , 1970 ; Walling 1979a ) , investigation of sediment yield ( Walling , 1974 ) , research extending into the area of water quality and pollutants related to urban source areas ( Ellis , 1979 ) and analysis of river channel changes downstream from urban areas ( Leopold 1973 ; Gregory , 1981 ) . |