Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MADONNA is set to issue a new single , album and book , featuring some of her most controversial work to date . |
| 2 | One of the most controversial areas of intervention by these new-style Labour councils was Equal Opportunities . |
| 3 | In the largest and most controversial privatization to date , the government announced on June 14 that it had sold Telecom to two United States companies , Bell Atlantic and American Information Technologies ( Ameritech ) , for NZ$4,250 million . |
| 4 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 5 | This is , without doubt , the most controversial aspect of food sensitivity . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most controversial aspect of care in the community comes when people like this along with the mentally ill are given the chance to live in group homes . |
| 7 | The RUC was excluded from policy making on security and even most administrative decisions of consequence . |
| 8 | Overall levels of education and of skills are lower , our institutions are coping only fitfully with modern conditions and there is an unsafely low level of investment . |
| 9 | Maxim looked round at his taxi-driver , who had parked two wheels on the pavement with the usual German disregard for the tyres , and got a nod and a rather strange smile in return . |
| 10 | ‘ May I observe that this is a rather strange sort of idleness … ’ and he went on to admit that , although it was difficult for him to defend his present way of life , there was purpose in it , even if that purpose was an obscure one . |
| 11 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 12 | A new relationship has begun , with the most momentous consequences for life , and we are going to look at some of those consequences soon . |
| 13 | On 24 August A.D. 79 , with all its preliminary stirrings ignored , Vesuvius burst into life , and one of the most momentous eruptions in history commenced . |
| 14 | I suspect that sea kayaking will go the way of inland touring , namely that modifications to design and materials will negate the most telling criticisms of plastic , and then its obvious advantage in durability will vastly outweigh its remaining disadvantages ( except for competitions and long open sea crossings ) . |
| 15 | For centuries one of the most telling criticisms of Nonconformity had been its penchant towards disintegration , what Edmund Burke called ‘ the dissidence of dissent ’ . |
| 16 | The most telling indicator of Railfreight 's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most telling measure of performance comes from a straight comparison with the R25 V6 . |
| 18 | Committed to an ideal of ‘ astronomy without hypotheses , ’ he nevertheless chided Copernicus for having employed the ‘ most absurd fable in order to demonstrate the true facts of nature from false causes . ’ |
| 19 | The incredibly low cost of living makes such evenings a real pleasure . |
| 20 | It is produced from raw beef liver , and once in its dried form is one of the most concentrated forms of food available . |
| 21 | Eleonora herself is the most the most concentrated depiction of evil in Leapor 's writings , an interesting point which unfortunately is missed by Donna Landry . |
| 22 | What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation . |
| 23 | This problem was to make it the most accident-prone routine in Tiller history . |
| 24 | For example , some of the most memorable features of fieldwork in the Old World Tropics from Madagascar eastwards , leeches , are so little known that their behaviour towards animals other than humans is unrecorded . |
| 25 | But somehow it was the Celtic team of the '70s and particularly their manager Jock Stein and his Italian darling Lou Macari who fashioned the most memorable images of betting . |
| 26 | l IAN McCULLOCH Candleland ( WEA UK : WX303C ) Ian McCulloch was the most memorable thing about Echo And The Bunnymen , the Liverpool acid revivalists of the early Eighties ( acid as in Syd Barrett , psychedelia and funny oily slides put over the spotlights , rather than mega-profitable discos in aircraft hangars and gate-crashing visits from the uniformed branch ) . |
| 27 | In all the cases I have encountered , despite strenuous efforts to cure it , the latter is unfortunately the most usual course of action . |
| 28 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 29 | The most usual mode of transmission of type I herpes is kissing , and following exposure a susceptible individual will develop a crop of blisters ( vesicles ) on the lips after about four days . |
| 30 | The most usual area of difficulty is in relation to leasehold properties . |