Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last requirement is likely to prove one of the most controversial in practice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That has now been reduced to 15 and the problem is at its most acute in East Swindon . |
| 5 | The glen is threaded by the River Nevis , rather sedate in maturity but dancing with fun and high spirits in infancy . |
| 6 | It was quite possible for them to take their deferences and privileges and give rather little in return . |
| 7 | The most junior in status are positive ; those in ‘ middle management ’ ( Scale 2 and 3 ) are the most negative ; the most senior are neutral . |
| 8 | The House legislated for that help for the most needy in society , and the proposed legislation will remove from many the ability to claim backdated benefits . |
| 9 | This is the phenomenon of INTERNAL DEVIATION , which , although it is most striking in poetry , may equally well be observed in prose style . |
| 10 | Fifteen years after it began , women are still numerically under-represented in high-status and decision-making areas of the discipline . |
| 11 | Sociology is a pluralistic discipline with different norms , etc. prevailing in relation to a variety of different approaches . |
| 12 | East of Brighton the species seems remarkably scarce in winter . |
| 13 | This was a monstrous busy lizzie which started out quite small , but is now rather exaggerated in size . |
| 14 | The East Sussex region is interesting because it has a very high retired population and it also has quite a long of young people , particularly in the Brighton area , and a relatively small workforce , rather low in industry , certainly in the primary industries , erm service occupations are perhaps almost the mainstay of the local populace — now how would an area such as that rate in your chart as to needs ? |
| 15 | Keenly interested in school education , Thomson was a strong believer in the species of grammar school which he himself had attended . |
| 16 | Swan was also keenly interested in astrology , both natural and judicial . |
| 17 | Although never an MP , he was keenly interested in politics and was an active force in a variety of parliamentary and ecclesiastical networks . |
| 18 | Only 92 men at arms and 2 priests began the route-march , for Balboa was a prudent organizer , keenly interested in security , and he insisted that the others from Santa Maria remained at the base camp , denying them their expected encounter with immortality . |
| 19 | It came into being on the groundswell of the earlier federalist enthusiasm , while still being sufficiently limited and pragmatic to be deemed feasible by senior politicians who themselves were keenly interested in fostering moves towards greater and effective cooperation . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Piaget 's accounts of these studies are rather lacking in frequency data so the extent to which the children psychologized is not clear . |
| 21 | ‘ But he is rather lacking in grace , ’ Salome said . |
| 22 | The exhortation was rather superfluous in view of the filthiness of the hall . |
| 23 | I think it 's partly the subtlety of it , because on the surface , er the Teenage Mutant Turtles are er sort of in the classic goodies v baddies mould , and er they 're rather charming in fact , they 're almost naive , they kind of stroll along enjoying their pizzas , and if you look at the front of a lot of the magazines there , they 're looking really , really merry and cheerful . |
| 24 | Harem-masters are always conspicuously different in appearance from their females — frequently they are larger and in many cases they have special male weapons on their heads . |
| 25 | Morgan believed that the only true descent groups were matrilineal , and that matrilineal descent groups — gens — were fundamentally different in organization from systems where descent was reckoned in the male line . |
| 26 | But it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain that the behavioural products of human imagination and of ape imagination are wholly different in kind . |
| 27 | It was not clear enough to protect the sellers from the consequences of their own negligence and it did not apply when the sellers had delivered something wholly different in kind from that which had been ordered . |
| 28 | Quite the opposite , it was an association of two men wholly different in character and outlook , brought together by the circumstances of Anselm 's exile . |
| 29 | A mouse without its cortex is not strikingly different in behaviour from a normal mouse : a man with no cortex is a vegetable . |
| 30 | In the 1960s , Skip Lazell , an American herpetologist , made a study of the lizard , the Dominican anole Anolis oculatus , and found it to be strikingly different in appearance in different parts of the island . |