Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The penis is arguably the laziest and most unpredictable part of a man 's body .
2 Mostly , they saw what they expected — and because the trash with whom Charlie had his dealings were rarely the deepest or most sober of men , their expectations tended to be predictable and few .
3 THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August .
4 It was London where the railway suburbs were numerically the largest and most populous with regular commuters .
5 Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered .
6 Then from his own pocket he drew another , rather the same but very much shinier , and held it out in the palm of his hand .
7 Long-stay hospital patients , especially the elderly and mentally ill , have been found to be suffering from malnutrition .
8 Many patients , especially the old and economically weak , are already malnourished when they go into hospital .
9 He trod on a patch of ice and slipped , falling down the dozen or so stone steps .
10 By the late 1970s he was established as perhaps the wittiest and most penetrating photographer of American cities and their paraphernalia of competing sign-languages .
11 Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) .
12 For one thing there have been too many of them already ( Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine in America , perhaps the best and almost the only vehicle for the crime short story , no longer looks as new Holmes tales , as I know to my cost . )
13 For example , the monarch was not spared by the pseudonymous critic Junius , who has been described by one historian as ‘ perhaps the ablest and most devastating political commentator ’ that England has ever produced ( Plumb , 1966 : 118 ) .
14 Perhaps the finest and technically most assured essay in the Floral Style , though , is the ewer found at Phaistos , which is completely covered with grey-green sprays of olive leaves .
15 The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland .
16 Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch .
17 Here is perhaps the simplest and most dramatic example : the non-conservation of length by children below about seven years of age .
18 This is perhaps the simplest and most flexible means of raising finance .
19 All these references , but most obviously the second and especially the third , are potentially sociological , but they involve very different kinds of analysis from the tracing of direct relations of content or of form .
20 Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself .
21 So the first and possibly best result of the expected IBM announcement will be a renewed interest in the future of large systems .
22 The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed .
23 I shall go even further : my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles .
24 In practice real power was largely in the hands of Holland , much the richest and most important of the seven provinces , and particularly in those of its chief official , the Grand Pensionary .
25 But 20 years on , things seem to be much the same or even worse — Cosmopolitan now subsidises its middle-of-the-road feminism with ads for depilatories and cosmetic surgery and my daughter , now a Famous Five fan herself , identifies with Anne not George .
26 He tried to trace the cause of this present onset — which , like all the attacks , seemed much the worst and quite irredeemable .
27 The raid on Gay 's The Word bookshop in 1984 was merely the largest and best publicised exercise in State censorship this decade .
28 It was merely the nearest and loudest of five or six clashing noises .
29 Well educated in Latin , French , German , Flemish , Spanish and Italian as well as in the Gaelic which enabled him to talk to the most suspicious and recalcitrant Highlanders , he gathered about him scholars and artists to add distinction to what soon became not merely the constitutional but also the cultural capital of the north .
30 Of course , the street of which I speak is merely the ten or so blocks that comprise the theatre district , and which , in the public imagination , has always been known as ‘ The Great White Way ’ .
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