Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When the committee system of the ASEA is considered as a whole , it is apparent that members were consciously operating an employment policy based upon casework , the practice most conspicuously associated with the COS , which , given the origins of the Association , is by no means unexpected .
2 Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward .
3 Some approach the canonical figure of Degas with a frontal attack on the patriarchal structure of art history itself ( most vocally expressed by the feminist critiques of Pollock and Callen ) , others offer more tentative snipes at aspects and details of individual works .
4 To follow this argument in more detail , it is worth turning to the product which is most intimately associated with the earliest period of the industrial revolution , that is cotton cloth .
5 The technique has been most widely applied in the analysis of cytokine responses .
6 Not surprisingly , these developments have been most widely exploited among the developed countries where the barriers to integration have been least .
7 Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on .
8 However , though honoured , especially in his native France , his discoveries were not immediately applicable and his contemporary influence therefore less than that of his fellow-countryman Louis Pasteur , who became , with Darwin , perhaps the mid-nineteenth-century scientist most widely known to the general public .
9 The movement for excellence is most widely known through the work of Peters and Waterman ( 1982 ) .
10 The thinking programme which I developed ( the CoRT programme ) which is now the most widely used in the world for teaching thinking is designed to avoid confusion through the use of specific attention tools .
11 The most widely sold of the French salami in the UK are the plump , sweet Jesus de Lyon and the Arles , from the gastronomically famed region of that name .
12 The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left .
13 Once again , there is no requirement that any evidence than that which grounded the original ‘ reasonable suspicion ’ should actually exist — and we have already seen that this formula is sometimes rather loosely interpreted at the arrest stage .
14 Part of the burden was thereby eventually eliminated as the prices of advanced countries ' exports to the primary producers rose — reducing the deterioration in the terms of trade .
15 This is most effectively demonstrated in the case of Sony 's Walkman , where the bass sound you hear is in effect a trick created by using cross-frequencies to ‘ synthesise ’ low bass in the mini-headphones ; it sounds low , but out loud there would be no real impact because it does n't actually exist !
16 If a system of government is , in the long term to continue to enjoy the broad acquiescence on which , in a democratic society , it stands , it must be sufficiently responsive to the voices of the governed and this is most effectively ensured by the constitution 's providing for the regulation of social affairs at the lowest and most immediate level possible .
17 Changes to this ratio are most effectively induced by the operation of media , which McLuhan defines as extensions to the senses .
18 It is perhaps this dilemma that causes most disagreement among protesters and it is therefore the one most effectively used by the governmental authorities to weaken their position .
19 The smallest and most strikingly coloured of the true geese , with a very small bill , chestnut throat , breast and face patch , and rest of plumage black with white lines , including broad one on flanks conspicuous at a distance .
20 Two of the younger ones rather shyly explained about the workings of the creamery .
21 The parents again refused consent for the operation , but the operation was eventually successfully conducted following the intervention of social workers and a woman judge .
22 THE GOVERNMENT of Flanders , the region of Belgium most badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , has launched a ‘ do or die ’ attempt to create economic growth through new technologies .
23 So , too , the feeling that life was becoming ‘ Americanised ’ has been used unsparingly to describe the process of ‘ permissive ’ rot and the collapse of traditional authority — most forcibly registered in the adoption of the term ‘ mugging ’ to disown as ‘ un-British ’ the old-fashioned crime of street robbery .
24 My experience of these potencies over many years has demonstrated their usefulness in the treatment of serious cases , and deep pathology is rarely wholly eradicated without the aid of fifty millesimal potencies .
25 In the smallest yet most intensely populated of the two main lowland regions , the St. Lawrence , lies the city of Montreal , an island in the St. Lawrence River itself .
26 When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay .
27 Leaving aside the relics of the African slave-trade ( now illegal and rather effectively strangled by the British navy ) , the bulk of international migrants were Europeans , or more accurately in this period western Europeans and Germans .
28 Although both parents will be affected by the departure of children , the impact is likely to be most keenly felt by the woman .
29 It was apparent that the department felt rather less threatened by the prospect of the appraisal after the process had been described in more detail .
30 Although most socialist writers were agreed that crime resulted from the misery , exploitation , greed and selfishness promoted by the private property relationships of capitalism , they were rather less agreed on the status of the criminal .
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