Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] and [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | My method of writing and producing a play was as follows : being a little lazy and a great procrastinator , I would leave the writing of the Saturday night play until the day before , meanwhile working out the plot and sequence of scenes in my head . |
| 7 | At this point I was a little drowsy and the weakness in my joints had increased . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At that time , Spain was predominantly agricultural and the interruption of normal activity during the war had resulted in serious shortages of foodstuffs . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | There are three different crystallographic forms of chitin — a- , B- and y- chitin — which differ in the arrangement of the chains and in the presence of bound water ; a-chitin is the most stable and the only one found in arthropod cuticle . |
| 12 | This material was most durable and the powdered marble imparted a brilliance to the finished surface . |
| 13 | Last year the general assembly gave to the Board of Social Responsibility a task of coordinating the work of the church in this field and we are proud now to be able to report to the general assembly that the work done by the assembly 's various Boards and by numerous local initiatives make the Church of Scotland the nation 's leading provider of services to the victims of H I V and to their families delivering both the most extensive and the most comprehensive service to these people within Scotland . |
| 14 | ‘ Whatever an estate agent 's political leanings , professionally each and every one must be expressing surprise , delight and relief , ’ said Sir Glen Hickman , marketing director of Humberts . |
| 15 | It is held at two famous courses on the Kent coast in the early spring , when the cold is invariably at its most insidious and the winds at their fiercest . |
| 16 | If all the voices sing in unison , the sopranos have to sing rather low and the basses too high , so unison singing of the whole choir is seldom used . |
| 17 | You 've gone a little astray and a lot of it 's no doubt been your own fault . |
| 18 | On this occasion , the guests were predominantly French , the music predominantly English and the dinner a sit-down at small tables of eight . |
| 19 | Again this assumption is rather gross as the social and health care needs of the two age groups are rather different and the costs of supporting these two age groups are also very different . |
| 20 | The Transvaal is the most northerly and the most populous of its four states , with the capital , Pretoria , and main business centre , Johannesburg , its only towns of any note . |
| 21 | Most hakims are medically unqualified and the main conditions they treat are fatigue and depression , digestive disorders , psychosexual problems , and skin conditions . |
| 22 | The past year has been the most peculiar and the most testing in my life . |
| 23 | On one level , it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read . |
| 24 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 25 | The sea was dead calm and the coral a glistening treasure trove of vivid gems . |
| 26 | Of these , the French Bayonne and the German Westphalian hams are the most popular and the easiest to obtain . |
| 27 | Nowadays such materials exist in a great many chemical varieties and their trade names are legion though ‘ Polythene ’ and ‘ Nylon ‘ , together with ‘ P.V.C. ’ ( polyvinyl chloride ) are probably still the most popular and the best known , at least in this country . |
| 28 | The trouble with writing about a still-extant commercial enterprise is that the text does tend to the rather uncritical and the whole thing can end up like an extended press release . |
| 29 | She was extremely grateful and the course saw out the war in this fashion the camp never materialising . |
| 30 | The simile was so striking and no doubt so apt , and one that was so delightfully Eliotish , that I could not take offence , though a critical word from that quarter could deal a heavy blow to one 's morale . |