Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most controversial issue raised during the visit related to Japan 's colonial occupation of Korea , and specifically the forced recruitment of thousands of Korean women — some historians suggested as many as 200,000 — to be used sexually by the Imperial Japanese Army fighting in China and South-East Asia . |
| 2 | By far the most controversial view comes from County NatWest which thinks that ‘ confusion will arise , particularly in the eyes of uninformed investors ’ , due to the ‘ plethora of different performance numbers ’ that will emerge for each company . |
| 3 | The evidence for it is very thinly spread , although there is one rather strange letter written in this year to Mary Hutchinson , in which he questioned the importance which anyone attached to his friendship . |
| 4 | It is worth noting that in the USA , where modular structures are the norm , most professional education occurs at the postgraduate stage . |
| 5 | However , the most telling condemnation came from General Sir Garnet Wolseley , the Adjutant-General and the Commandant of Dover Castle , who argued that a tunnel would ‘ open up a route to the invader into England ’ . |
| 6 | But perhaps the most telling comment came from one elderly farmer who has seen it all before . |
| 7 | What is known , is that approximately 200 enemy aircraft were encountered , in what was the most concentrated attack made on the 401st . |
| 8 | There is , however , a problem over the derivation of the result , for a rather subtle reason connected with the structure of the smaller-scale motions . |
| 9 | Perhaps my most memorable day occurred with Paul on our ascent of Kichik Kumdan . |
| 10 | He told me he was called Willie , but I though that was a jolly awful thing to do to anyone . |
| 11 | In short , Sangenic is the most modern , most environmentally friendly and most economic way to dispose of disposable nappies ! |
| 12 | For example , neutron activation analysis ( see glossary ) , one of the techniques used to determine the composition of ancient ceramics , would be impossible without a computer program , since the calculations required are so complex and extensive that not even the most resilient individual armed with a pocket calculator could possibly complete them in a single lifetime . |
| 13 | it 's a right bloody size look at them |
| 14 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 15 | The second widely used technique based on settling velocity is that of the sedimentation tube . |
| 16 | A widely used definition pitched at the macro-level is Maxwell 's ( Maxwell et al. |
| 17 | The Stamford Bewlay Trophy for the most outstanding probationer went to PC Nadin Khaliq for his impressive work over the year . |
| 18 | She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen . |
| 19 | Already though , by far the most persistent story centred on her relationship with her Neighbours co-star and long-time ‘ best friend ’ Jason Donovan . |
| 20 | were involuntary witnesses of wholly unnecessary violence inflicted by uniformed Blackshirts on interrupters . |
| 21 | He was not the most guilty man to pull on a navy-blue jersey , but he was hardly an angel either . |
| 22 | A strange place , Coldstream Priory : no bells for divine office , just a rather hasty Mass said before noon . |
| 23 | Er but I can remember going cycling up that hill , and the midwife was there as well , and there was a most awful scream came from this er this cemetery . |
| 24 | I was shaking , shivering and sweating and I had the most awful pain going through my body . |
| 25 | Looked at from the perspective of land distribution and usage , Great Britain could be described as a predominantly agricultural kingdom based on the three countries of England , Scotland , and Wales . |
| 26 | The proposed new law curbing this type of blatantly dishonest description given by some estate agents is not before time . |
| 27 | This is a rather odd question to start with , because films specifically do not have ‘ natural ’ sound . |
| 28 | The most devastating attack comes from Gilder ( 1979 ) , who has provided empirical evidence on the costs of educational , sewerage , public transport and health facilities in rural areas . |
| 29 | But he was the most pleasant animal to work with . |
| 30 | And Alice saw a landscape that had been flattened , was bare and bleak , with perhaps a little wan ash blowing over it . |