Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think and think again of the number of different rooms , the multitude of different beds , the mirrors , the endless dark stairways , the duplicated obscenities , the handfuls of folded pound notes , the sordid exchanges in doorways or park benches , the varied postures of so many unclean and degraded females spreadeagling themselves for lucre , the bodily smells , the cheap perfumes , the wasted seed , the anxieties about disease , the fears of recognition and the intolerable pressure of guilt that would inevitably descend like a black mantle over even the most vulgar and sensual head . |
| 2 | Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury has the kind of reputation that suggests even the switchboard ought to answer with ‘ Howell Henry Chaldecott Lury — the most controversial and innovative agency in Britain ’ . |
| 3 | But I personally feel that these two books are not just blood and gore , for they both actually have deep , rather strange and mysterious story lines , and not the usual one of an horrific axe-murderer ! |
| 4 | I 'd like to see erm there is still in this country a reluctance on the part of erm the lower social and economic class children and families to continue in education erm This leads to a position in which , a situation in which in , in the workplace and elsewhere the educated person is still regarded as a , as a sort of rather strange and alien minority person . |
| 5 | then , of course , they have the most polite and efficient cabin crew in the business . |
| 6 | In her most polite and charming voice , she said , ‘ My name is Anabelle . |
| 7 | So you have a very particular view of the constitution , that given by the founding fathers and one which is still in force some seventy eighty years later as America headed towards its most momentous and divisive crisis in its history . |
| 8 | The Castilian fleet , based in the Cantabrian coast ports , was perhaps the most professional and well-organized navy in western Europe in the 1360s and 1370s , and it was well placed both to attack English shipping on the route between England and Bordeaux and to harry the south coast of England . |
| 9 | However , it is now widely ( and wisely ) accepted that screen-based communication is a weak platform for predominantly textual and numeric information and is more naturally the platform for sound and images . |
| 10 | It was the nineteenth century 's most distinctive contribution to building types and that century was to see the creation of the majority of the most memorable and pleasing railway stations . |
| 11 | Frederick Meymott , Clerk of the Southwark Court of Requests , whose Analysis of 1830 has already been referred to , thought the latter was the most usual and advisable course . |
| 12 | In fact what he called the " auditory imagination " was always his most powerful faculty , the most subtle and complex instrument at his disposal which he deserted at his peril . |
| 13 | The troubles of kidnapped , intimidated Craw are central to the book but not in the usual romantic way , in spite of the Jacobite overtones of the plot and the brief appearance of the Republican leader , the Communist Mastrovin , ‘ the most subtle and dangerous mind in Europe today ’ . |
| 14 | In the former you examine design specifications from which are produced a drawing , diagram or plan to scale , looking at the most economic and effective way of manufacturing the article . |
| 15 | In 1951 Stalin , denouncing the exclusion from the United Nations of the people 's Republic of China , berated the twenty Latin American republics for being the ‘ most solid and obedient army of the United States ’ ( Pravda interview with Stalin , 17 February 1951 , p. 1 ) . |
| 16 | Smashie And Nicey 's selection is the most solid and best entertainment , with the Harry Enfield Show 's gruesome twosome in rocktastic shape and raring to go . |
| 17 | Until the 1660s it was , at least in its most acute and dangerous form , mainly an Anglo-Dutch contest . |
| 18 | The Russian revolution had swept away the most cruel and backward government in Europe and become a symbol of hope for many people , a symbol that ideas of freedom and justice could overcome tyranny . |
| 19 | On both sides of the Irish Sea it has made all practitioners keenly aware of the deep oubliettes of the timetable , in short of the incoherence even of the apparently most broad and balanced curriculum . |
| 20 | Again we are at the tip of his pen as he draws a box to put himself inside , and as the most private and informative area of the Possessed notebooks begins to open up . |
| 21 | The way she 'd always known it , when you decided to throw a party , you threw a party ; you pushed back the furniture , you got all the food together yourself , you invited close friends who knew each other and for a while you let them invade your most private and personal space . |
| 22 | Its focus is not so much on the individuals who work and produce as on the production process , and this rather impersonal and abstract approach makes it difficult or even unnecessary to look for any exclusion of women , although this occurs . |
| 23 | So , time is your most scarce and valuable resource especially in examinations . |
| 24 | And talking about next door , why is it that neighbours , just like friends , always seem to turn up unannounced when you and he are in the middle of the most flaming and spectacular row ? |
| 25 | In a most hideous and dreadful manner . |
| 26 | She had herself taken on " a little deaf and dumb girl from the Asylum in the Old Kent Road " |
| 27 | This puzzle was at last unravelled in a series of brilliant papers of a rather technical and mathematical nature by the English geneticist and entomologist William Hamilton ( 1964 , 1971a , b , 1972 ) . |
| 28 | The mother , who attracted and welcomed happy young men to the house , was a little put out by Edwy 's rather shy and serious manner . |
| 29 | On 20th February 1803 he recorded a visit to Wastwater , which he reached over Langdale Head , ‘ Went down to the foot of the water , got up the side of the skrees , where there was the most awful and tremendous storm of thunder and lightning and hail I ever remembered . |
| 30 | The rough edges on the opening Mean To Me quickly gave way to the most assured and accomplished performance I have heard from her . |