Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 2 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 3 | The startling rise is mostly due to the privatisations of state companies , boosted with high-profile advertising and low share prices . |
| 4 | Break-up of a marriage can have a bitterly ill-effect on the children . |
| 5 | He continues , ‘ Of all atmospheres those inclining to the yellow and the green are the most unhappy ; and the most grateful to the feelings those of a grey somewhat inclined to purple ; but a reddish purple hue is not only unpleasant in nature , but ought to be studiously avoided in a picture . ’ |
| 6 | Some of the leaseholders were also remarkably stable over the generations , families such as the Braynes , the Groomes , the Tylers , the Juxes and the Formstons . |
| 7 | The problem was naturally most acute in the lands where feudalism was most highly developed : in northern France and the Low Countries , in England and south Italy after the Norman conquests , and in Syria after the First Crusade . |
| 8 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 9 | In the most possible of the hotels — it goes by the name of Toppin — all the rooms are taken by seven o'clock . |
| 10 | The only matter remaining was to quantify what was properly due to the receivers as remuneration before bringing the receivership to an end . |
| 11 | What was to prove the most far-reaching of the changes introduced in the July 1951 cabinet was the elevation to ministerial rank of Admiral Carrero Blanco 's position as director of the office of the head of government ; and the one which best exemplified the combination of new and old , change and ossification , was the creation of a Ministry of Information and Tourism . |
| 12 | John McIlroy , most persistent of the critics , argues that |
| 13 | And finally , only a year or so later , turned them out of house and home — put them on the street , as women who failed to be properly grateful to the fathers had been put for centuries . |
| 14 | Scientists talk in terms of ‘ generations ’ of computers , and the most advanced of the machines in operation at the moment are of the fourth generation . |
| 15 | In the late 1890s , for example , Ramsay MacDonald worked closely with J. A. Hobson on the Progressive Review , a liberal socialist journal which attacked ‘ Manchesterism ’ in the name of domestic social reform , while remaining ‘ keenly alive to the dangers of a powerful State , taken as an instrument of absolute control and adducing ‘ reasons of State ’ as an over-ruling principle of policy . ’ |
| 16 | As for Unix , that is a time-tested , used and abused system that is one of the most stable of the platforms currently available ’ he says . |
| 17 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 18 | Prince M.C. Subhadradis Diskul , Director of the seameo Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts , Bangkok , said Thailand is willing to return stolen property only when it can be fully documented with photographs which is rarely possible after the damages inflicted by the Khmer Rouge . |
| 19 | Like most true Cornishmen , the Arundells were staunchly Royalist during the troubles , and the sixth Sir John was killed at Plymouth while charging at the head of his troop in 1643 . |
| 20 | As our death-bed scenario illustrated , the family was at its most cohesive at the times when the rites of passage were celebrated . |
| 21 | The figure I think might have been higher if we had n't had some hot weather which er meant the fish were keeping rather low in the lochs , and it was difficult for the ospreys to find sufficient food . |
| 22 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 23 | His granddaughter , Jessie Mould , has been keenly interested in the movements of her family over the generations and after she had discovered that her seventeenth-century ancestors were mentioned in Richard Gough 's History of Myddle ( 1701–2 ) she published More Tales of Banks Peninsula and wrote in her foreword : |
| 24 | From 1889 to 1904 McFadyean was also keenly interested in the problems of anthrax disease in animals . |
| 25 | Going round the gallery , I met Viscount and Viscountess Slim , and the Earl and Countess of Gainsborough , who were all most interested in the paintings . |
| 26 | ( I wager Wolsey kept an eye on that , too , being most interested in the sins of the flesh . |
| 27 | In terms of the present debate between capitalism and socialism , they are fundamentally different from the prescriptions of both Karl Marx and Milton Friedman . |
| 28 | There is a fascinating groundswell of feeling on the avant-garde led by Martin Margiela with his elaborately deconstructed and reconstructed flea-market treasures for a fashion that is fundamentally different from the designerisms of the Eighties . |
| 29 | The system of self-regulatory organisations is fundamentally different from the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) in the USA . |
| 30 | From this and other types of experiment , it is beyond dispute that , even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists , Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual , olfactory and even touch cues . |