Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It includes some of the most controversial and most significant for social services . |
| 2 | When artificially illuminated from below , the effect of the countershading is reversed — the trumpet fish looks strikingly solid and highly conspicuous . |
| 3 | That night , they filmed the most memorable and supposedly dramatic scene in the picture , the one in which Nicholson does his monologue on what is wrong with American society , for which he became famous . |
| 4 | Within just one NME article , Stuart Maconie wrote that they ‘ talked ordinary , dressed ordinary , ’ and were ‘ screamingly normal and terribly ordinary . ’ |
| 5 | This , then , was Mary 's inheritance : by a combination of political circumstances , luck , strong personalities on the throne and sheer nerve and drive , she was heir to a remarkably stable and remarkably outward-looking society , whose kings commanded a great deal of respect , and exercised a great deal of power . |
| 6 | ‘ We believe the case is overwhelmingly strong and extremely important for the heritage of the country ’ , Mr Empson said . |
| 7 | It 's incredibly idiosyncratic but incredibly self-confident within that . |
| 8 | It was impossible to treat all parliamentary candidates alike without being either wholly uninformative or inordinately lengthy . |
| 9 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 10 | Boiled Eggs , skulls & skinheads ( no doubt many more ) but skinhead was the wittiest , most descriptive & most difficult to say without sneering . |
| 11 | When Mrs Whatsit asks him tonight why her little Johnny is n't making more progress with his English , Iain McWhirter will reply that progress is not to be expected from a boy who is abysmally lazy and congenitally stupid . ’ |
| 12 | The Empire is home to some of the most innovative and technically able minds in the Old World . |
| 13 | Where , then , may we look for hopeful areas of peace , ways in which this new overwhelmingly destructive and readily deployable force may be contained , not just for a few years , but in our minuscule timespan , for ever ? |
| 14 | PATRONS : The most Reverend and Right honourable the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Dr George Carey BD Mth Phd Cliff Richard OBE General Eva Burrows OA Head of Salvation Army |
| 15 | But … he devised the first , most complete and most sophisticated learning package for those who wished to study organisational development ’ . |
| 16 | The most complete and reliably dated sequence comes from near Little Loch Roag , Lewis ( Birks and Madsen , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | After eight months of dogged peacemaking , wholly unrewarded and largely unappreciated , the UN 's representative in Angola , Margaret Anstee , is said to want to give up . |
| 18 | The most that Europe can hope to achieve , or should aim for , is an expanded economic free trade area made up of sovereign states all contributing to a cultural diversity that is economically stable and ecologically sustainable . |
| 19 | If Heidrick and Struggles may be identified as the most individualistic and entrepreneurial search firm , Spencer Stuart as the most discreet and quietly professional — in this sense closely related to Egon Zehnder — and Korn/Ferry as the most aggressive , then Russell Reynolds may be seen as the most elite , preppie and , according to Byrne , even arrogant , of headhunting firms . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most striking and most controversial aspect of the proposals introduced yesterday is the effect they will have on the low paid . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most striking and most controversial aspect of the proposals introduced yesterday is the effect they will have on the low paid . |
| 22 | The Chinese institutions have loaned one hundred works , including national treasures , most unpublished and virtually unknown outside China . |
| 23 | It is a basic but rarely articulated feature of the modern economic system that the highest pay is given for the work that is most prestigious and most agreeable . |
| 24 | Grand Prix 500cc road racing is the glamour class , the most prestigious and most famous of all forms of motor cycle sport . |
| 25 | He looked up as I approached — he was really remarkably tall and strikingly well-dressed for Phraxos ; evidently one of the summer visitors . |
| 26 | If the pews can be removed without incurring too much damage , a large area of floor space will become available for a range of activities — open-plan office use may be one of the most profitable and least damaging . |
| 27 | Whilst by no means an ideal data base , WIRS does provide the most extensive and most representative survey information currently available on employers ' use of temporary labour in Britain . |
| 28 | Yet acceptance of the Western ‘ package ’ was rarely total and frequently superficial , and , as the inevitable reaction against the Occupation changes set in , receptivity to what the West had to offer became far more selective . |
| 29 | At all levels of church life there is an urgent need for role-models to encourage even the most prejudiced and most embattled to rethink their ways . |
| 30 | The screws knew I was vocal and articulate and had by then got my own way to a fair extent by being incredibly polite and incredibly persistent but not actually stepping out of line . |