Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these five tools , tests are the most controversial and the least used in Britain . |
| 2 | The final alleged change — that of growing equality within the family-is perhaps the most controversial and the one which is most challenged by contemporary feminist writers who argue that the family is , and continues to be , the major unit sustaining the exploitation and subordination of women . |
| 3 | Lili 's father was tremendously rich until the government sequestered all his property . |
| 4 | This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent . |
| 5 | I could n't wait to get to grips with the famous putter and was duly grateful that the Friday afternoon traffic was reasonably light , with fewer than usual kamikaze lorry drivers about . |
| 6 | It seems rather strange that the accuracy for navigating/surveying now , by state of the art technology , is of the same order as has been used to set down the Circles of Time several thousand years ago . |
| 7 | Perhaps there are Leicester citizens who will feel just a little sorry if the bird we all love to hate were ever banished ; no longer to amaze us with squabbling antics in the garden , purposeful flight lines at the end of day , noisy pre-roost assemblies — and starling spectaculars at dusk . |
| 8 | Though they were made just a little lower than the angels , they were stamped with God 's character , bearing his image and divine likeness . |
| 9 | These two reasons — the public sector 's ability to spread risk more thinly and the lower after-tax interest rate relevant to resources displaced from private consumption — justify the use of a public sector discount rate that is a little lower than the interest rate inclusive of tax and risk at which private firms must borrow . |
| 10 | In any case the normal cost of equipping a good boat with an efficient crew would certainly not be higher , and probably be a little lower after the trade had settled down to its now increased dimensions than before . |
| 11 | We are particularly anxious to bring the courts back into use for the 1993 season , so we would be most grateful if the application could be dealt with as soon as possible . |
| 12 | The volcanic history of that event does not need restatement here , but the complexity of the stratal history makes this part of the column both the most confusing and the most controversial of all . |
| 13 | Ah yeah , I , I would think myself that I was also , er rather sorry that the boy doing had just shown how silly they |
| 14 | I was rather sorry when the All Clear went . ’ |
| 15 | Applying this procedure to the data from this experiment would give a correlation of 0.16 , still rather lower than the figure from Watts and Quimby . |
| 16 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 17 | The demands of this kind of social experience are perhaps most acute when the infant wishes to communicate to the adult about the object — for example , if the child wishes to draw the adult 's attention to an object or request an object from the adult . |
| 18 | This problem is most acute when the individual ( or group ) courting media attention seeks to placate different and conflicting audiences , for example an international/foreign audience and a home one . |
| 19 | Dissonances are most acute when the dissonant voices are close together . |
| 20 | The score for American women is also strikingly lower than the 8% reached by their British sisters . |
| 21 | Their model , though vastly simpler than the real atmosphere , mimics some of its important properties . |
| 22 | The PNSF had previously been staunchly anti-Arafat and the initiative was regarded by some sources as an attempt by Syria to strengthen its influence over the PLO [ for March reports of Syrian plans to increase its influence within the PLO see p. 38121 ] . |
| 23 | Waddell is most emphatic that the old man was neither blindfolded nor gagged . |
| 24 | A third type of spectrometer , fundamentally simpler than the other two , uses a tunable monochromatic source ; instruments using IR-emitting diodes have been produced , but are not yet able to replace interferometers . |
| 25 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , Mr McKillop , I am bound to tell you that I find this most strange because the Elsie I knew assured me she had no brothers or sisters . ’ |
| 27 | Although France had a railway line from the coalfield of Saint Etienne to Lyons in 1832 , it too was slow to develop a national network , partly because of governmental reluctance to embrace the new form of transportation and also because the economy remained predominantly agricultural and the road system was more efficient and extensive than Britain 's . |
| 28 | At that time , Spain was predominantly agricultural and the interruption of normal activity during the war had resulted in serious shortages of foodstuffs . |
| 29 | Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly . |
| 30 | The way to resolve this necessary dilemma is surely not to discredit spatial policy altogether but to contextualise it , to draw out the links between the locally specific and the internationally ubiquitous , as Patrick Bond describes in his description of the campaign for the community control of capital in Baltimore ( chapter 8 ) . |