Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The decision to use the bomb remains the most controversial and probably the most important of the Second World War .
2 Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss .
3 long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the
4 Wilson did put some flesh on the bones in a television interview with Norman Hunt , only to have it torn off in strips by the venerable Bridges , long since retired but still a determined advocate of a unitary Treasury dominating economic policy from the centre .
5 Frances has a horrible dog , Hotchkiss , the most odious and also the most convincing dog in literature .
6 Moving it from the training camp ground to the hospital ward was the most commercial and seemingly the most obvious — course to be taken .
7 According to a report , the second lock up was in fact so narrow that occasionally a boat would be partially gripped , causing it to plunge dangerously .
8 Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there .
9 I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable .
10 Jane Austen is less descriptive than either the Gothic novelists or Scott , for although her letters are full of domestic detail and she enjoins her sister , Cassandra , to omit nothing in her account of a house — ‘ For one 's own dear self , one ascertains & remembers everything ’ — novels are not written for ‘ one 's own dear self ’ , and she was not one to inflict what she did not enjoy — ‘ your descriptions are often more minute than will be liked ’ , she warns her niece , Anna Austen , an aspiring writer .
11 Some fluxes , especially ‘ self-cleaning ’ ones , are highly corrosive and even a small amount left inside the pipe can cause corrosion problems — particularly in central heating systems .
12 They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position
13 Approaching Heligoland the weather was obviously unsuitable and so the mission was abandoned and the aircraft went home .
14 He was on his way south from a place called Nunyerry when , he said , monsoon clouds forced him to fly lower and lower into the Turner Ranges , one of those areas of outback Australia that are so inhospitable that even the local animals hibernate below ground .
15 Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation .
16 The Act is perhaps not so clear where only the claimant with a possessory title is before the court , for example , because the true owner does not appear or can not be found .
17 Jenny was heartily relieved that the recent bad weather had made the track so muddy that even the passionate and rather drunk Ted had not dared go any further .
18 A sheltered housing project in Thornaby has proved so popular that only a few flats are left .
19 Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves .
20 With regard to children 's adjustment when there is a step-parent and a non-custodial visiting parent , the research evidence is less clear and obviously the age of the child can be a crucial factor which has not yet been properly researched .
21 The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm .
22 She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established .
23 As with all the other special effects of camp environment , those produced by sex starvation were not organically different but merely the ordinary trends aggravated and emphasized .
24 It makes it abundantly clear that even the possession and academic presentation of information necessary for an ethnography could be actionable .
25 In the person of Mary of Guise , it had been made abundantly clear that neither a French background nor an assertive Protestant aristocracy was a bar to the exercise of power and the acquisition of respect .
26 Internationalization is the notion that each country 's economy has become less self-contained and more a part of a global process of production and change .
27 The Big Bang was violent — so violent that only the smallest bits of atomic particles could have survived .
28 But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified .
29 The Miscarriage Association believes that one in three pregnancies end in miscarriage often so early that even the mother is not aware .
30 It is perhaps ironic that today the Holstein of North America is rapidly overwhelming the dual-purpose Friesian of Europe , whatever its name .
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