Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among that most representative breed of ministers , Moderators , it is even closer to the mark , and without consulting the records I can think of the Very Reverends MacLeod , Fraser , Craig ( Archie ) , Craig ( Robert ) and Reid , as examples . |
| 2 | One of the most controversial areas of GLC activity ( and this was picked up by the Tories in a party political broadcast as early as 1984 ) , was the Gay Teenage Group which had been set up by gay young men in 1976 . |
| 3 | One of the most controversial areas of intervention by these new-style Labour councils was Equal Opportunities . |
| 4 | The most controversial change of auditors of the past two years took place at Prudential Corporation . |
| 5 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 6 | The final and most controversial aspect of Akihito 's accession process , the Daijosai , or Great Food Offering Ritual , was held in the grounds of the Imperial Palace on the night of Nov. 22 . |
| 7 | This is , without doubt , the most controversial aspect of food sensitivity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The question of humankind 's origin from the apes was one of the most controversial aspects of Darwin 's theory . |
| 10 | The RUC was excluded from policy making on security and even most administrative decisions of consequence . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Behind his insistence that the intensely hierarchical system of submissions be changed , lay Jenkins 's determination that the Home Secretary had to be allowed sufficient scope to use his political judgment in weighing up alternative courses of action . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | A rather strange collection of men and women , thought Rupert with an anthropologist 's detachment , none of whom really know each other but between whom waves and currents of feeling are already beginning to pass . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Bushmen have been pushed back from much richer regions into the most inhospitable areas of Africa by other more technologically advanced peoples with whose enmity they still have continually to reckon . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ . |
| 19 | At the end of 1919 Lenin showed Russian indifference by offering virtually all of Belorussia to Poland in order to stave off a Polish offensive , but the most telling instance of Russia 's attitude had already occurred after the German withdrawal in December 1918 , when the Northwestern Regional Committee of the Russian Communist Party held a conference at Smolensk . |
| 20 | The most telling indicator of Railfreight 's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most telling measure of performance comes from a straight comparison with the R25 V6 . |
| 22 | Leapor 's most telling examination of standards of beauty is ‘ Corydon . |
| 23 | ‘ A most telling stream of miracles ’ is related , and the King is recorded as having prophesied ‘ the Satanic horror of all those human rebellions against the Crown which were to rise , no longer in the British Isles , but in America and in France from the end of the XVIII century , and to develop on the Continent as well as in Africa and Asia during the XIX and XX centuries ’ . |
| 24 | It is rather those in the most outlying areas of Connaught and Munster ( where Spenser 's estate was situated ) who have grown to be ‘ as very patchcoks as the wild Irish ’ . |
| 25 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 26 | It is produced from raw beef liver , and once in its dried form is one of the most concentrated forms of food available . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Cruel , a little , but not savage : Alix could see Hannah smiling gamely , taking it in good part , and wondered if she was also taking in the rather subtle sub-text of allusions to drugs other than nicotine . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |