Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 2 | He spun symbols bright as sugar-crystals : the poor , dim brothers who were not human yet who spun the glassy fibres ten times the tensile strength of steel along which optical messages could be sent , for surgeons , for miners ; or incredibly strong strands to link the orbiting colonies . |
| 3 | RIGHT Archaeomagnetic dating involves the taking of samples of burnt clay : before they are lifted , the precise compass bearing is taken and marked on the sample 's container . |
| 4 | The association of sclerosing cholangitis , retroperitoneal fibrosis , and Riedel 's thyroiditis has been reported twice before , and on both occasions the authors successfully used steroids to control the fibrotic process . |
| 5 | Arguably not , because until recently most political scientists saw the Diet as an institution which merely gave symbolic ratification to legislation handed down by the executive . |
| 6 | Despite the defeat Haynes insisted that the NDP would be a " major factor in Barbadian politics in the future " , but most political analysts interpreted the party 's manifest failure to establish a mass base as a fatal flaw . |
| 7 | The hourly off-peak service from Euston to Liverpool and Manchester was an early casualty when the service was cut back to a ninety-minute headway , but the most far-reaching change concerned the Anglo-Scottish services between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 8 | In 1983 one of the most outstanding gifts to benefit the Theatre Collection was donated by Alan Tagg , one of this country 's most prominent and prolific stage designers . |
| 9 | Amalgamemnon foregrounds the ‘ novelistic ’ aspect of contemporary society by using the future tense and other conspicuously fictional devices to reveal the speculative and constructed nature of the supposedly factual information conveyed through the media . |
| 10 | The most senior teachers are the most positive about each , the ‘ middle management ’ the least , with the most junior teachers occupying the middle ground between them . |
| 11 | But it is possible — and equally convincing — to argue precisely the reverse : that the most advanced companies recognise the value of the strategic use of consultants generally — including headhunters — in running a business as efficiently and effectively as possible . |
| 12 | The most advanced technology involves the use of viruses which have been engineered for safety and to accept human genes . |
| 13 | From the point of view of natural creation , however , dare we suggest that a not altogether unfeeling God introduced the sound as a warning to its prey , so that in the natural economy , mosquitoes did not have an unfair advantage and that all warm-blooded creatures in mosquito-infested areas were not permanently condemned to a life of itching and scratching ! |
| 14 | Posi has the most womanish ability to choose the worst moments to disrupt a man 's thoughts — usually with something trivial . |
| 15 | It seems that Freemantle was uneasy about poems which even in the most literal sense made the poet look bad . |
| 16 | Italy remains fairly static but the most striking growth shows the rise in importance of the Netherlands . |
| 17 | Thus , our participation in a rather advanced project minimizes the danger of our reproducing work already conducted elsewhere . |
| 18 | In fact , behind the bland constitutional concern to protect human rights through a Bill of Rights , there often lurks a partisan and intensely political concern to restrict the role of the state because of an attachment to a theory of limited government , born of a desire to use the law to defend the private sphere and capitalism , so hitting at the possibility of socialism and the democratic road to its attainment . |
| 19 | Motion three two three is quite right to criticize the blatantly political proposal to remove the May Day holiday which would leave the U K as one of the few civilized countries without a day to acknowledge the labour movement . |
| 20 | This seems , however , to be a rather weak attempt to soften the harshness of the saying . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 22 | In the 1840s most working men supported the Chartists , who aimed at a secret ballot and adult male suffrage . |
| 23 | By contrast , most British supporters walk the last part of the way to the stadium and derive a greater sense of excitement , anticipation and being part of a crowd . |
| 24 | Zinc is the latest : lack of it supposedly causes a range of problems , although little scientific evidence supports the link . |
| 25 | ‘ In the comparatively rare case in which such a judicial discretion falls to be exercised , there will be two distinct and wholly different issues confronting the court . |
| 26 | Unhappy about losing 80 per cent of their profits on Virgin acts , but unwilling to surrender 10–20 per cent , most foreign companies accepted the switch from being licensees to being distributors . |
| 27 | By far the most sensible way to recycle the bulk of municipal waste is by incinerating it and recovering the energy . |
| 28 | The nation 's favourite racehorse , four times a winner of Kempton 's King George VI Chase and on the mend following an operation for a twisted gut , looks to have found the most sensible place to spend the Christmas break with several Boxing Day racecards under threat from heavy frosts . |
| 29 | The hotels are among the finest on Lake Como and even the most demanding gourmets adore the restaurants . |
| 30 | One reaction to this rather clichéd allegation took the extreme form of the new classical macroeconomics which jettisoned Keynesian ideas lock , stock and barrel , and which reinstated a modified , rather more mathematical version of the old classical system . |