Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problems are most acute in the non-advanced sector where many eligible applicants are unable to gain admission to courses leading to vocational qualifications . |
| 2 | He is perhaps most Spanish in the mystical emotion at the heart of such motets as ‘ Emendemus in melius ’ and ‘ O crux , ave ’ . |
| 3 | Communities which suffer most from crime are often the most disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 4 | The drama menu is potentially the most mouth-watering in the entire festival programmes . |
| 5 | As regards the latter , some of the most mobile in the British case are workers in personal services ; those , for example , seeking work in the catering trades . |
| 6 | What is perhaps most striking in the past three decades is the way in which social movements of very diverse kinds have become an accepted part of political life in the Western democracies , and to some extent have provided models for movements in countries where the expression of criticism , dissent and opposition through formal political institutions is virtually impossible . |
| 7 | At its most rampant in the conservative popular press , the view is likely to be taken that the protesters — the violent minority by their acts , the majority by their association — have moved outside the realm of politics and into the area of criminal activity . |
| 8 | THE fourth quarter of the year is our busiest and most profitable in the pre-Christmas trading period . |
| 9 | Easter Day is the most joyous in the Christian year , the day of Christ 's Resurrection , and at Beverley they proclaim it from the roof top . |
| 10 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 11 | It might well appeal to poets or would-be poets , who , contrary to popular myths about inspiration , are usually keenly interested in the technical aspects of composition . |
| 12 | He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued . |
| 13 | HAVING BEEN a regular reader of your magazine for a few years now , I have been most interested in the regular updates on the progress in restoration of Bf 109G G-USTV . |
| 14 | Lewis identified himself , though Marion Kemp appeared but little interested in the proffered warranty . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that student support in the United Kingdom continues to be the most generous in the western world ? |
| 16 | We have described the policies that we advocate as the ’ ethics of community ’ — as something that calls on what is best and most generous in the human spirit . |
| 17 | The pattern was most conspicuous in the loyalist working-class urban districts from not long after the imposition of ‘ direct rule ’ until the second general strike of May 1977 . |
| 18 | This has been obscured because the connection between accumulation in the national context and the growth of the transnational capitalist class has been rather different in the First and the Third ( and also now the Second ) Worlds for a variety of reasons , of which corruption is one . |
| 19 | What seems plain maltreatment at the time could look rather different in the quiet surroundings of a tribunal or courtroom months or years later . |
| 20 | The pictures Sir Oliver has so meticulously measured and recorded may not be the most distinguished in the Royal Collection , but this volume is every bit as informative as the others in the series . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's a lock if you 're worried , ’ he said carelessly , and turned away , closing the door behind him , leaving Robyn to stand cold and a little afraid in the empty bedroom . |
| 22 | Indeed the endemic disorder of medieval society , which was little different in the late Middle Ages from what it had been earlier , may have caused as much economic disruption in a locality such as the East Anglia of the Pastons . |
| 23 | The Church 's inner spirit , organization and theology need be little different in the 1990s from how they were under Pius XII in the 1950s . |
| 24 | One does not have to be a Marxist to observe that by comparison something seems to have gone badly wrong in the capitalist societies of the Western world over the last two decades . |
| 25 | The ascetic life , previously most popular in the Eastern provinces , now came to appeal widely to Western aristocrats , men and women , virgins and widows . |
| 26 | On the other hand her present emphasis may be retrospectively the harder because she was so emphatic in the Sixties when Burton ‘ crucified Sybil ’ by leaving her for Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 27 | Though highly political in the later years of colonial rule , Mambo Leo was now largely apolitical , and its coverage of national affairs tended to be non-controversial . |
| 28 | Though widely reported from Antarctica , it is seldom so striking in the drier southern soils . |
| 29 | The situation in Kabul was extremely confusing in the immediate aftermath of Najibullah 's removal . |
| 30 | She believed that supplying cannabis to her daughter was morally right in the medical circumstances . |