Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] powerful [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a very mystical and very powerful number , although twelve is more frequently found . |
| 2 | The printer has several advantages over conventional printers ; it is almost silent , the printhead is very light and so powerful motors are not needed and almost any kind of paper can be used . |
| 3 | Neile 's particular contribution was the provision of the longest and most powerful telescopes that had been produced in England for Ward 's observatory at Wadham , and these were used by Wren in developing his theory of Saturn 's rings . |
| 4 | They remain so today despite the appearance of bigger and more powerful hunters which have compelled them to be more circumspect in their behaviour . |
| 5 | Manufacturers were producing bigger and more powerful cars , and the rules , although crude , divided the cars into two categories — heavyweight and lightweight — those over 400 kg ( 882lb ) being classed as heavyweight . |
| 6 | Arius received support from scholarly and politically powerful bishops , in particular from the learned church historian Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine , a man for whom Constantine came to have great respect . |
| 7 | These revenues , unknown and incalculable though they are , helped to make the Duke one of the greatest and most powerful princes in Western Europe . |
| 8 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |
| 9 | From here , the grim Hazar Ustan or Thousand Pillared Palace , Tughluk ruled the largest and most powerful empire India had known since the time of Ashoka , one and a half millennia previously . |
| 10 | Boris Yeltsin , the leading radical populist and one of President Mikhail Gorbachev 's fiercest critics , was elected on May 29 as Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet , making him de facto President of the Russian Federation , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic . |
| 11 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |
| 12 | But first , Boris Yeltsin the man sacked by President Gorbachov as Moscow Communist Party Chief , has been elected leader of the Russian Federation ; Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful Republic . |
| 13 | The same is generally true of diurnal raptors , although they can also take larger animals because with their stronger beaks and talons they are able to overpower and kill larger and more powerful prey , and they may on occasion hunt cooperatively ( Bednarz , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | Few people seriously questioned the practical advantages and moral justification of hereditary monarchy as a system of government , particularly in the larger and more powerful States . |
| 15 | This vital question , said the astrozoologists with mounting authority , would not be answered until a larger and more powerful gantry was constructed for a deep-space vessel . |
| 16 | There can be little doubt that there are many people in this country who would welcome such a change , as is evidenced by the customers who flock to stores to shop on Sunday when they are given the opportunity to do so ; but it might not be so popular with small retailers who could find it more difficult to open their shops regularly on Sundays to remain competitive with their larger and more powerful rivals . |
| 17 | The melodies of Zarewitsch were some of the loveliest and most powerful Lehar had ever written . |
| 18 | Out of this unlikely scenario comes one of the most awkward , unclassifiable , brazenly catchy and bleakly powerful albums of the pop era . |
| 19 | The sudden fall of an able and apparently powerful minister such as the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 showed that even in the last years of the lethargic and indifferent Louis XV this control was real . |
| 20 | Queen Maria Luisa , wife of Charles IV , an unlovely , clever , deceitful and immensely powerful woman , is metamorphosed into a barn-owl , a lechuza , a word which in Spanish also means an ugly hag or a procuress . |
| 21 | This is in practice the most important and most powerful form of control , |
| 22 | Silence continues to sustain the hegemony , and social change only occurs when irresistible and more powerful forces are brought to bear from outside ( see Adams 1988 ) . |
| 23 | His bone and muscle mass must be sufficient to balance his frame , giving a compact and very powerful appearance . |
| 24 | On 19 June , however , things began to warm up again , and the plume of steam and ash , which had been showing signs of flagging , rose higher and higher as more and more powerful explosions shook the air . |
| 25 | One of the soldiers wanted to know if it was true that Medoc was preparing for the birth into the world of the monster god-idol , Crom Croich , and an argument sprang up as to whether Medoc and Crom Croich were the most evil and most powerful forces ever to come out of the Dark Ireland , or whether the Erl-King had been worse . |
| 26 | Surmounted by a mirrored dome , Dr Graham 's invention was supported by twenty-eight glass pillars and was encircled by 1,500 pounds of lodestones ‘ so as to be continually pouring forth in ever-flowing circles inconceivable and irresistibly powerful tides of the magnetic effluxion , which is well-known to have a very strong affinity with the electric fire . ’ |
| 27 | In Asia , they were driven southwards by the competition of numerous higher and more powerful forms , but have found a last resting-place in the swampy forests of the Malay region . |
| 28 | A person Who has plenty of stamina will have a slower and more powerful heartbeat and they will cope more easily with prolonged or heavy exertion . |
| 29 | That is my first and most powerful memory of separation from my mother , and even though it lasted only a year , those feelings of rejection and insecurity have coloured my life . |
| 30 | The first and most powerful emotion was pride in what this moment meant for so many millions , and especially for their leaders , who had succeeded in making this return after 22 years of isolation conditional on the genuine opening up of cricket to all South Africans . |