Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most controversial areas of intervention by these new-style Labour councils was Equal Opportunities . |
| 2 | The RUC was excluded from policy making on security and even most administrative decisions of consequence . |
| 3 | I suspect that sea kayaking will go the way of inland touring , namely that modifications to design and materials will negate the most telling criticisms of plastic , and then its obvious advantage in durability will vastly outweigh its remaining disadvantages ( except for competitions and long open sea crossings ) . |
| 4 | For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ . |
| 5 | It is produced from raw beef liver , and once in its dried form is one of the most concentrated forms of food available . |
| 6 | For example , some of the most memorable features of fieldwork in the Old World Tropics from Madagascar eastwards , leeches , are so little known that their behaviour towards animals other than humans is unrecorded . |
| 7 | But somehow it was the Celtic team of the '70s and particularly their manager Jock Stein and his Italian darling Lou Macari who fashioned the most memorable images of betting . |
| 8 | The pulpit was marvellously restored restored to its former glory and is further evidence that the powers of creation can surmount even the most destructive forces of mankind . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , contemporaries realised that the tradition which made foreign policy one of the most arcane aspects of government was being breached : a well-informed former diplomat noted that the laying of so much diplomatic correspondence before parliament was a " sort of new habit " . |
| 10 | Nonetheless , the Senegalese system has dealt with the succession problem impressively , and sustained a multi-party tradition which allows a wide range of opinion to be expressed in public , and in doing so has avoided the most acute problems of localism . |
| 11 | But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers . |
| 12 | But in the two most acute categories of learning difficulties , severe and profound , these children were found to be over-represented by more than 300 per cent and just under 200 per cent respectively compared to native English speakers . |
| 13 | It is surely one of the most cruel twists of fate that a man who has demonstrated such commitment , as well as compassion to overcome so many other problems during his life — and indeed to have helped so many others to have done the same — that he should have become a victim of medical science . |
| 14 | The most obvious evidence of this warfare was reflected in buildings , such as Coldingham Priory , one of the most rebuilt places of worship in the Borders , the ownership of which was hotly disputed for centuries . |
| 15 | The most widely used techniques of inspection apart from 100% inspection are random sampling , where batches are concerned , or continuous sampling , in mass-production . |
| 16 | The use of the penal law against workers , especially when it involves imprisonment , or the possibility of imprisonment , is one of the most persistent sources of conflict between labour and management , and between labour and governments . |
| 17 | All but the most persistent kinds of pollution ( now increasingly rare ) are ephemeral and mobile . |
| 18 | Some of the walk is waymarked with green/yellow arrows though as much of it is over rarely used rights of way you 'll need to keep your OS maps close at hand . |
| 19 | This is used to convey rather strong feelings of approval , disapproval or surprise . |
| 20 | Somehow he 's managed to lead one of the most entrenched examples of playsafe rock consensus ‘ forward ’ into apparently digging music that sounds just like Con Funk Shun , Rah Band , Loose Ends . |
| 21 | Rack renting combined with taxes and tithes — according to the abolitionists of the thirties these alone consumed a quarter of the peasants ' net income — drove out the enterprising and condemned those who remained to one of the most hopeless forms of subsistence farming . |
| 22 | Workers under this arrangement required much communication with management and close supervision , and hence rather narrow spans of control and a long managerial hierarchy . |
| 23 | One of the most advanced applications of expert systems to DSS and GIS is a hazardous substances and industrial risk management system ( IRIMS — Ispra Risk Management Support System ) developed at IIASA in conjunction with the Joint Research Centre of the Commission of the European Communities at Ispra , Italy ( Fedra et al. 1987 ; Fedra 1986 ) . |
| 24 | One of the significant features of the examination was the high degree of agreement achieved between the metallurgical experts in an activity where they were concerned with the most advanced aspects of fracture mechanics . |
| 25 | One of the most advanced examples of development has been CLIMAP ( Climate , Long Range Investigation , Mapping and Prediction , Hays and Moore , 1973 ) which has made a reconstruction of global sea surface , ice extent , ice elevation and continental albedo for the northern hemisphere summer at 18,000 years BP and this has provided the boundary conditions for global general circulation models to simulate the climate when the northern ice sheets were at their maximum extent ( see Lockwood , 1983a ) . |
| 26 | This is one of the most progressive pieces of legislation in the world in attempting to establish equality between men and women as the rule in marriage . |
| 27 | From the most general to the most specific levels of affinity these have been labelled ( i ) Sequential , ( ii ) Substantial , ( iii ) Integral , and ( iv ) Unitary affinity . |
| 28 | The undertrial population , too , mainly consists of the most disadvantaged sections of society , who can not pay the sureties demanded for bail . |
| 29 | Also that I described them in car on way home as five most grotesque examples of humanity this side of the swamps of Lousiana . |
| 30 | It ‘ reproduces the most grotesque practices of imperialism ’ , he said . |