Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [art] " 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 | Ensure that duly modified software has an updated issue number . |
| 3 | A most unsuitable thing to teach a child , Miss Russell had always said disapprovingly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Endoscopic sphincterotomy and basket extraction of the stones has been the most widely used technique having an overall success rate of 85% in clearing the ducts . |
| 7 | It is also not the most cost-effective way to handle a matter . |
| 8 | Said to Bert that got to be a right dopey dick to ride a bike with no mudguards on . |
| 9 | The most advanced technology involves the use of viruses which have been engineered for safety and to accept human genes . |
| 10 | Posi has the most womanish ability to choose the worst moments to disrupt a man 's thoughts — usually with something trivial . |
| 11 | It seems that Freemantle was uneasy about poems which even in the most literal sense made the poet look bad . |
| 12 | Italy remains fairly static but the most striking growth shows the rise in importance of the Netherlands . |
| 13 | Thus , our participation in a rather advanced project minimizes the danger of our reproducing work already conducted elsewhere . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | White , beaten in four world and two UK finals , at long last lifted the game 's second most prestigious trophy following a 16–9 victory over defending champion John Parrott . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This seems , however , to be a rather weak attempt to soften the harshness of the saying . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He added that Pennethorne ‘ was a most respectable gentleman holding an official position , but not a competitor , or qualified to design or erect a national work ’ . |
| 20 | This means adding just a little expanded memory produces a large percentage increase in the amount of memory available for data storage . |
| 21 | Thomas Deloney may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn . |
| 22 | Detailed geophysical investigations in the most anomalous area identified a large induced polarisation anomaly between Borland Glen and Coul Burn , which diamond-core drilling showed was caused by a zone of altered and pyritised volcanic rocks . |
| 23 | Zinc is the latest : lack of it supposedly causes a range of problems , although little scientific evidence supports the link . |
| 24 | On Monday 27th many insurgents converged on the Tauride Palace , seat of the Duma , and that evening a group of predominantly Menshevik intelligentsia established a Provisional Executive Committee ( EC ) of the soviet in the palace and summoned factories and barracks to elect deputies to it . |
| 25 | By far the most sensible way to recycle the bulk of municipal waste is by incinerating it and recovering the energy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 29 | The contributors suggested that Christianity needed TM because it was ‘ the most direct way to gain a deeper state of inner quietness ’ . |
| 30 | Perhaps the most direct way to establish the extent of the appropriability problem faced by R&D active firms is to measure the size of spillovers between ‘ adjacent ’ users or producers of an innovation ( for complementary evidence on the divergence between private and social rates of return to innovation , see Mansfield et al. , |