Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial issue the Association handled was Harris Tweed where there was a sharp conflict between competing commercial interests . |
| 2 | As in the earlier books , the bravura set-piece dominates , and the most memorable concerns the crates in which the Portuguese have packed up their belongings , and which were eventually shipped out of Africa — Kapuscinski was to stumble on a few of them in Portugal , sunk , as it were , in the sand . |
| 3 | I mean Leonardo , without question one of the most outstanding geniuses the world has ever known — but he said that . ’ |
| 4 | FIVE years on , they gathered in Enniskillen yesterday to remember one of the IRA 's most hideous atrocities the Remembrance Sunday bombing . |
| 5 | But America has unleashed the most devastating war the world has witnessed since ‘ World War II ’ . |
| 6 | Nor is it quite obvious on second thoughts that even in the most literal usages the visual metaphor is wholly dead ; however accurately ‘ insight ’ may be defined in a dictionary , could I handle the word with any confidence without being guided by its grammatical and semantic affinities with ‘ sight ’ ? |
| 7 | If ever there was a team performance this was it , with the most striking feature the absolute and total commitment of an inspirational Irish side which simply left England reeling . |
| 8 | If ever there was a team performance this was it , with the most striking feature the absolute and total commitment of an inspirational Irish side which simply left England reeling . |
| 9 | What made the result so glorious was that it epitomized the essence of steeplechasing : at its most prestigious moment the sport had returned to its rural roots and shown that the humblest contestants can win the biggest prizes . |
| 10 | He is , of course , much more than the most prodigious goalkicker the international game has seen or is likely to see , given the reduction in the number of penalty offences . |
| 11 | How does the Minister react to the case , of which I have informed her right hon. Friend the Secretary of State , in which home help provision was withdrawn from an elderly couple , both of whom are severely and progressively disabled ? |
| 12 | The rigours of the most demanding season the game has known were etched on Moore 's face . |
| 13 | In a rather different approach the assumption of speculative efficiency may be tested by exploiting the cross-equation restrictions that it implies . |
| 14 | The most exciting admissions the opposition could squeeze out of him were ‘ Yes , I have played pachinko ’ and ‘ Yes , in some respects , I like it . ’ |
| 15 | The chairman of its Scottish council , Dr Mac Armstrong , told a press conference in Edinburgh : ‘ This should be one of the most exciting enterprises the NHS has ever engaged in but the enthusiasm for this initiative — which is there — may turn to scepticism because of the Government 's commitment to it . ’ |
| 16 | This was the most exciting News the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist had heard in years . |
| 17 | The most interesting shows the upper part of a woman wrapped in a cloak , who was evidently standing in profile but turns her Daedalic face to us . |
| 18 | VISITORS to Wellington Country Park near Reading , Berks on Sunday , July 28th will be able to enjoy a special ‘ behind the scenes ’ look at the Park 's most popular attraction the miniature steam railway . |
| 19 | IN THEIR most rudimentary state the returns which form the basis of this study amount to nothing more exciting than parallel columns of names and sums of money flanked , in the musters , by notes of military particulars . |
| 20 | For the three most risky junctions the mean correlation between risk rating and P(A) is positive and significant , r=0.80 , df=12 , p<0.01 . |
| 21 | For the most detailed analysis the meshes are arranged at the closest possible intervals , but greater spacings by size may be used if less detail is required . |
| 22 | The conciliar stress upon it was not new and the Decree on the Lay Apostolate is one of the less advanced texts the Council produced . |
| 23 | It does n't bear much repetition , but it 's clever , exciting and in its highly idiosyncratic way the perfect palate-stimulator . |
| 24 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 25 | On the basis of this greatly enhanced authority the EP decided to press ahead with the task of unifying Europe and to this end produced a draft treaty establishing a European Union . |
| 26 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 27 | If only Morpurgo had been a less thoroughbred specimen the contrast with what had subsequently overtaken him would have been easier to accept . |
| 28 | This seems to suggest that the enhancement in performance for the risky junctions as demonstrated by the P(A) scores is because of an increased number of hits for risky exemplars , whereas for the less risky junctions the decrement in performance is attributable to an increase in false alarms for the risky exemplars rather than an increase in hits for the less risky ones . |
| 29 | To a much lesser extent the process also applied to Deutschmarks , Swiss Francs and sterling itself later on . |
| 30 | With highly specialised products the models will probably be people who are already working with the product . |