Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last requirement is likely to prove one of the most controversial in practice . |
| 2 | ‘ We regularly get complaints about drugs but it is mostly due to publicity from drug raves in the rest of the UK , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It appears that the mosaic of room LI of the " abaton " — and presumably that of room L — could be earlier than this ( Britannia XII ( 1981 ) , 357 ; Britannia KIll ( 1982 ) , 380 ) . |
| 4 | And in spite of considerable growth the composition of residential settlement was remarkably stable over time . |
| 5 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 6 | This need is currently most acute in relation to the measures aimed at implementing the Social Charter , in that the measures proposed have a more profound effect on the activities and cost structures of companies in the UK than other Member States . |
| 7 | Rowntree made a similar discovery in York some ten years later and also showed how poverty dogged the course of the individual life cycle , being most acute in infancy , at the point of family formation and again in old age . |
| 8 | That has now been reduced to 15 and the problem is at its most acute in East Swindon . |
| 9 | The glen is threaded by the River Nevis , rather sedate in maturity but dancing with fun and high spirits in infancy . |
| 10 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 11 | A simple and popular bridge that exhibits frequency-dependent balance conditions and is widely used to measure the frequencies of sources is the Wien bridge shown in figure 7.9(a) comprising just resistors and capacitors . |
| 12 | It was quite possible for them to take their deferences and privileges and give rather little in return . |
| 13 | The band 's chief songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald described it as their most outstanding to date . |
| 14 | For while , in the oral world of non-literacy , ignorance of letters , the national language or national institutions is no handicap , except to those whose business ( which is rarely that of agriculture ) makes such knowledge necessary , in a literate society the illiterate is by definition inferior , and has a strong incentive to remove that inferiority , at least from his or her children . |
| 15 | Thus crime would be prevented by modifying those who can be modified , segregating those who can not be so modified , correcting in advance of crime those who are proved to be most likely to commit crime , and attacking and eliminating the social situations which are most conducive to crime ( ibid. , p. 608 ) . |
| 16 | However , Sutherland and Cressey do go on to include a consideration of poverty , unemployment , bad housing , and the like , under the heading of ‘ social situations which are most conducive to crime ’ . |
| 17 | A careful scrutiny of existing policies and their implicit and explicit assumptions should do two things ; it should enable choices to be made at the level of general strategies , as to what is most conducive to equity or equality , it should also enable individual teachers in individual schools to compare their circumstances with those of others and learn which innovations seem to suit what circumstances and to take heart from the struggles and successes of their colleagues . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , these authors do list those characteristics of the ‘ strike setting ’ which they consider most conducive to violence ( Thieblot and Haggard , 1983:10–11 ) . |
| 19 | THERE was an amusing television programme last week called BOFTY — Bore of the Year — which meted out awards to those most guilty of pretentiousness , rudeness , ubiquity and any other media excess as decided by the satirical magazine , Private Eye . |
| 20 | Rather strong on metaphor , mind you . |
| 21 | And it is this recourse to the Saussurean model which gives rise to the most innovative of structuralism 's extensions of the linguistic analogy : poetics . |
| 22 | The most junior in status are positive ; those in ‘ middle management ’ ( Scale 2 and 3 ) are the most negative ; the most senior are neutral . |
| 23 | Most are woven on woollen warps and wefts ( p.20 ) — not the most stable of foundation materials — and consequently tend to lose their shape . |
| 24 | Only 1% of the world 's HEU comes under the safeguards administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency ; that is mostly used to power small research reactors in countries that have no nuclear weapons . |
| 25 | The results show an initial period of maintained growth and then an oscillatory decline , presumably due to water stress . |
| 26 | And as a not-particularly-modest Squidgey told her friend in that most revealing of telephone calls , you have to have been to Hell and back yourself to know how to behave nicely with the dying . |
| 27 | This usually makes the chords look rather odd on paper , but this does not worry the harpist , who , as we have said , connects each note , whatever its chromatic inflexion , with a particular string . |
| 28 | Her the narrow lanes are most pleasant for cycling , horseriding or even driving out in a pony trap for there is so little traffic and so much nature to be observed . |
| 29 | It must have been most pleasant by day . |
| 30 | More than 1 million ha are currently classified as severely saline and are mostly unsuitable for crop production because of either highly saline water in the root zone or the presence of salt crusts on the soil . |