Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one who has arguably the toughest brief of all the carvers at the palace . |
| 2 | But the extended sets of variations usually on popular songs , but sometimes on dance-tunes or the notes of the hexachord , generally increasing in complication and technical difficulty toward the end , which are arguably the chief glory of virginal music , have been plausibly derived from the diferencias of Cabezon ( see pp. 236–7 ) . |
| 3 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 4 | Some fine and competitive rallying in which was arguably the best match of the three days , saw her come very close to Audra Keller , a 19 year old form Tennessee who was playing in her third consecutive Maureen Connolly Cup event . |
| 5 | Many walkers cross its famous ‘ Bad Step ’ just above the waters of Loch Scavaig , but few scramble up its slabs and buttresses to take in the view of Coruisk and its magnificent amphitheatre of black , jagged peaks — arguably the finest viewpoint of Skye . |
| 6 | Chapter 3 outlined the development of the impersonal capital as arguably the dominant mode of possession of the means of production in the contemporary British social formation . |
| 7 | GRAMM-Rudman-Hollings , the US deficit reduction law , is arguably the worst piece of legislation passed by Congress in the past decade . |
| 8 | As the Denmark Farm experiment shows , it is not too late to restore our countryside — arguably the richest aspect of our national heritage — and recreate a living countryside with a rich biological diversity . |
| 9 | It is an impossibly restricted view , therefore , to imagine a universal approach to landform study being based only upon consideration of historical development … the physical and the resulting psychological , inability of geographers to handle successfully the simultaneous operation of a number of causes contributing to a given effect has been one of the greatest impediments to the advancement of their discipline . |
| 10 | Although this is rarely the sole cause of the iron deficiency , in one study it was found to be a contributing factor in 57% of patients . |
| 11 | Boastful , overbearing and bumptious , he emerges by his own account as the eternal mocker of authority , rarely the effective wielder of it . |
| 12 | A state of cleanliness is rarely the main objective of a manager in the food industries , as there is no direct profit contribution or production benefit , so the emphasis on management differs from that of mainstream operations . |
| 13 | Yet even as I remember Victoria , I feel keenly the unsettled state of my mind . |
| 14 | All ‘ well-meaning ’ citizens were said to have recognized ‘ wholly , joyfully , and thankfully the superhuman greatness of the Führer and his work ’ , and , confronted with this ‘ greatness ’ , ‘ all pettiness and grumbling is silenced ’ . |
| 15 | Economically the traditional sector of agriculture was a negative force : it was immune to the fluctuations of the great markets or , if not , it resisted their impact as best it could . |
| 16 | From this time onward the greater part of the effort is concentrated on the critical event that made the difference between a routine flight and a catastrophe . |
| 17 | Such an argument would appear , however , to overestimate vastly the potential contribution of the ‘ Eastern hemisphere ’ in the postwar process of adjustment while ignoring the strength of European economic recovery which depended so much on intraregional trade in manufactured goods . |
| 18 | Additionally the growing importance of the media , especially radio and television , highlighted the relatively poor performance of British sportsmen and women at an international level . |
| 19 | It would seem , then , that de la Broquière 's statement not only provides good evidence of the existence of the office of Mufti in 836/1433 but also suggests that the Mufti was by then recognizably the chief representative of the spiritual authority of the Seriat , the chief representative of the religious aspect of the state . |
| 20 | It is as if the baby can now calculate geometrically the precise location of the target from the angle of the adult 's head and arm relative to self and the environment . |
| 21 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
| 22 | IT IS presumably the mustachioed face of the author that hovers elusively behind the undulations of the Zollner figure on the front of Nicholas Wade 's book . |
| 23 | Presumably the great advantage of word-processing , if , if you have the sort of decent printer that you mentioned , is that you could send what appear to be rather personal letters to a whole lot of people rather rapidly erm putting in , for example , at a very elementary level , their individual name , but also coupling together relevant paragraphs erm which would be appropriate to them . |
| 24 | The Class 156 units ceased to be part of this operation from the 8th of July and presumably the temporary expedient of bus backup is in force if extra capacity is required . |
| 25 | Where the services can not be seen as making an economic contribution , they are clearly improving the quality of life for members of the community , which is presumably the ultimate goal of raising productivity and standards of living anyway . |
| 26 | This is because the true fracture stress at the crack tip is presumably the theoretical strength of the material and this generally lies between 10 and 20 per cent of the Young 's modulus , E ( Chapter 3 ) . |
| 27 | On the basis that even before Pepper v. Hart a wider range of parliamentary material might be judicially considered to determine the mischief , presumably the same range of material may , if it is necessary , be admitted as contextual parliamentary material . |
| 28 | Presumably the same number of men as women and |
| 29 | Some of the houses stood out by dint of their brightly painted front doors but mostly the only sign of decoration was the washing on the lines and hanging from windows . |
| 30 | I was aware of the firing in the road we 'd left , mostly the muted thunder of the APC 'S automatic cannon drowning any small-arms fire . |