Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] 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 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 3 | This is , without doubt , the most controversial aspect of food sensitivity . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes . |
| 5 | The RUC was excluded from policy making on security and even most administrative decisions of consequence . |
| 6 | Overall levels of education and of skills are lower , our institutions are coping only fitfully with modern conditions and there is an unsafely low level of investment . |
| 7 | ‘ May I observe that this is a rather strange sort of idleness … ’ and he went on to admit that , although it was difficult for him to defend his present way of life , there was purpose in it , even if that purpose was an obscure one . |
| 8 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ . |
| 11 | The most telling indicator of Railfreight 's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance . |
| 12 | Perhaps the most telling measure of performance comes from a straight comparison with the R25 V6 . |
| 13 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 14 | It is produced from raw beef liver , and once in its dried form is one of the most concentrated forms of food available . |
| 15 | Eleonora herself is the most the most concentrated depiction of evil in Leapor 's writings , an interesting point which unfortunately is missed by Donna Landry . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In all the cases I have encountered , despite strenuous efforts to cure it , the latter is unfortunately the most usual course of action . |
| 19 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 20 | The most usual mode of transmission of type I herpes is kissing , and following exposure a susceptible individual will develop a crop of blisters ( vesicles ) on the lips after about four days . |
| 21 | The most usual area of difficulty is in relation to leasehold properties . |
| 22 | The most usual form of enforcement is the issue of a writ of fieri facias ( fi . |
| 23 | The most usual method of calculation is to determine the net profit of the business ensuring that this amount is the amount of pre-tax and pre proprietor drawings and pre interest charges . |
| 24 | But there is an additional condition : we should be able to see a prominent feature of style as forming a significant relationship with other features of style , in an artistically coherent pattern of choice . |
| 25 | He even felt a rather pleasant sense of detachment from what was going on , almost as though everything around him were happening on television and the barman might switch to another channel at any moment . |
| 26 | The use of these somewhat esoteric labels may obviate the difficulties of using terms which have a common and often imprecise meaning for a precise purpose — a problem which has afflicted the understanding of Hirst 's work — but it has also limited their circulation , and outside the rather enclosed world of curriculum theory , Phenix 's work is largely unknown . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The appearance of MPG Note 3 in 1988 sought to strengthen this approach , pushing resolution of the inherent conflict between opencasting and the environment in favour of this most destructive form of development . |
| 29 | This is hardly surprising since temporary equilibrium models lack a coherently articulated theory of interest which would allow the Keynes effect to be activated . |
| 30 | 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 " . |