Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIDEROT ( 1713–84 ) is the most solid of the three great intellectuals of 18th-century France ; he is also the least known . |
| 2 | Primitive Methodists , the most rural of the four leading denominations , built a total of 660 chapels between 1890 and 1901 and the average cost was £1 , 151. |
| 3 | The Presidency devolved upon Pascal-Trouillot , the most junior of the 12 Supreme Court justices , after her colleagues had declined to accept the post . |
| 4 | It seemed to be the most stable of the six tested . |
| 5 | When the time approached for a decision on when to ground PA474 , the feeling within the RAF was that PA474 should be kept airworthy for at least another ten years , and the suggestion was made that R5868 should go to Hendon instead , as it was by far the most historical of the two Lancasters . |
| 6 | The perspective of the 1980s however is strikingly different from the 1970s . |
| 7 | Michael , at a push , will admit to being the most sensible of the three ; Andy , Mr Agreeable and Fyfe , Mr Invisible ( ‘ I was sitting in a cab with someone from the record company and they turned round to Andy and said ‘ Where 's your drummer ? ’ ) |
| 8 | It has increasingly displaced common law as the most extensive form of law in Britain and it is the most definitive of the four . |
| 9 | A big , physically powerful lawyer born into the most distinguished of the half-dozen Hong Kong families with a genuine claim to ‘ old money ’ status , T S Lo was by his early forties one of the grandest figures in the colonial establishment . |
| 10 | The Church 's inner spirit , organization and theology need be little different in the 1990s from how they were under Pius XII in the 1950s . |
| 11 | The three-year package , for loans of up to 90 per cent of the property value or purchase price , is fixed at 6.99 per cent and is the most popular of the three fixed rate packages . |
| 12 | She is potentially the most cliche-ridden of the nine archetypes . |
| 13 | German officials consider the Federal Republic 's Cartel Office to be the most rigorous among the 12 EC countries , with a status ( at least in their own minds ) roughly akin to the Bundesbank . |
| 14 | On the other hand her present emphasis may be retrospectively the harder because she was so emphatic in the Sixties when Burton ‘ crucified Sybil ’ by leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 15 | A certain amount of research into the effects of ageing went on in that period ( and not only in Britain ) but much of it was forgotten when the crisis of ageing and labour shortage seemed less acute in the 1960s — the ‘ age of automation ’ ( Bagrit , 1965 ) , of greater availability of female and immigrant labour and of youth . |
| 16 | – The Russian peasants hardly began to migrate into the open spaces of Siberia before 1880 , though they moved in large numbers into the steppes of European Russia , whose settlement was more or less complete by the 1880s . |
| 17 | Aye , but you must remember that money was so scarce in the thirties that you could n't miss anything . |
| 18 | The people with whom we had the intensive interviews and from whom we quote are not necessarily representative of the two districts in which they live . |
| 19 | Although the distribution of patients who were stone free for > or |
| 20 | How comes you 're so , you 're so interested in the eleven plus and everything ? |
| 21 | How come she 's so in , you 're so interested in the eleven plus and everything ? |
| 22 | Talk of a policy U-turn or reversal , associated with Mr Heath from 1972 onwards , or of ‘ ungovernability ’ , so prevalent in the 1970s , has disappeared from the political vocabulary in Britain . |
| 23 | This followed the same successful formula that proved so popular at the 1990 Newbury Rally . |
| 24 | Kite , one of the few golfers to have had any success with switch-hitting on the greens , came out this year with a compact whip-and-zip to his swing that made him look like one of those little mechanical Arnold Palmer golf games that were so popular in the 1960s ( and have recently surfaced again ) . |
| 25 | The new edition is not greatly different to the 1983 revision ; the format is larger and there is a narrative bibliography covering publications from 1983 to early 1990 . |
| 26 | Business and government were last so chummy in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 27 | The intense reading in mysticism emphasized by Gordon and Hay and so prominent in the 1926 Clark Lectures no doubt played its part in his 1927 conversion , but so did his allied interest in primitive civilizations . |
| 28 | She looked so tiny beside the two men , yet so ferocious , that Geoffrey laughed out loud . |
| 29 | The extensive use of ‘ supergrasses ’ in the eighties has made many people sceptical of informers and verbal statements , but such scepticism was far less widespread in the 1960s , and the impression that Paisley was heavily involved in illegal acts became common . |
| 30 | He was terribly conscious of the forty stories piled over his head . |