Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the US , mortgage-backed securities apart , credit card securitisation represents arguably the most important segment of the asset-backed securities market . |
| 2 | Apart from indicating status , each church represents perhaps the most important local focal place for any settlement , and we might spend a lot of time studying it in our local research . |
| 3 | This , however , is an over-simplified view as the current phase of uplift and volcanicity represents only the most recent episode in a complex history stretching back to the Mesozoic ; moreover , the history of this vast mountain system differs greatly from one part to another . |
| 4 | But the deliberate use of McCarthyism by the leaders of the Republican Party as a weapon against the Democrats offers perhaps the most convincing explanation of its success . |
| 5 | This is because cousin has a general meaning which covers all the more specific possibilities ( not only with regard to sex , but also with regard to an indefinitely large number of other matters , such as height , age , eye-colour , etc . ) . |
| 6 | The committee considered the ‘ offence ’ to be compounded when an answer claimed to be pursuant to an earlier reply ‘ but has only the most tenuous link with it , ’ she said . |
| 7 | As a friend of mine — who has only the most ephemeral links with any religious tradition — put it recently to me : " We must learn to be channels not engines ! " |
| 8 | The student taking a written examination , however , very often has only the most rudimentary knowledge of the skills necessary in writing down his thoughts rapidly and accurately and in mastering the subtle techniques of being a successful examinee — techniques that have no connection at all with the amount of knowledge he may possess . |
| 9 | And while others are softening the mood for the Nineties , Versace has stuck resolutely to his guns , and looks all the more refreshing for it . |
| 10 | Similar pipe in black neoprene , polyethylene or rubber can be adapted ; in fact , on a carbon frame the neoprene looks all the more professional . |
| 11 | This changes , subtly , the colours and tones down the most garish of shades . |
| 12 | This generally allows only the more vocal children to put forward their views . |
| 13 | A nice gimmick ; but read this trilogy immediately after an in depth study of quantum theory and you find that it represents possibly the most scientific of all science fiction novels . |
| 14 | And our survey shows up the most important variation — the overall costs to you , the customer . |
| 15 | The very fact that The Star is even interested in Carter marks out the rather sizeable arena they are currently entering . |
| 16 | In particular Cantor and Richard Dedekind , in his Stetigkeit und irrationale Zahlen ( 1872 ) , shows how the somewhat intangible irrational numbers ( that is , those elements of R which are not in Q ) could , using the set concept , be made respectable in terms of Q ( see Section 4.4 ) and Gottlob Frege ( 1884 ) demonstrated how the natural numbers 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , … ( on which Z and ultimately Q can be based — see exercise 4.4.17 and 3.10.5(iii) could be defined in set-theoretic terms . |
| 17 | I would remark yet a further factor relevant to race and colonialism , one which raises again the always ambiguous status of the aesthetic , and inseparably from its achievements : Gide is in Africa as a writer discovering and nurturing a creativity of itself intrinsically exploitative . |
| 18 | From concept through to completion , Transplastix employs only the most skilled of techniques and technicians . |
| 19 | In analysing the ways in which informal care in the context of an existing familial relationship is both more than and less than personal assistance , she opens up the rather sterile debate about ‘ burden ’ , ‘ dependency ’ and residential care . |
| 20 | Roy Hattersley 's simultaneous resignation as deputy leader also opens up the increasingly sterile debate on constitutional reform . |
| 21 | But the dread disease of covetousness afflicts even the very wealthy . |
| 22 | 40% of the crop is still in the fields and the longer it stays there the more difficult it is to harvest . |
| 23 | Gaminara draws only the most banal conclusions from his detailed subject matter and , by the end , the play ( his first for the stage ) has become contrived , sentimental and gratuitously violent . |
| 24 | As for the huge variability in the number of contradictory results , Moore says that NCI applies only the most stringent criteria to their decisions : a significant turnout response to a given dose in two species or two sexes . |
| 25 | Combine it with a visit to Hearts of Darkness — A Film-maker 's Apocalypse , Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper 's superb documentary about Coppola 's difficulties in getting the film made , and the achievement seems all the more impressive . |
| 26 | She seems all the more objectionable because so many people have been falling over themselves to help her . |
| 27 | With both railways only ten miles apart , however , it makes the SDR figures all the more remarkable because both have been subject to the same local economic situation and relative decline in tourist numbers . |
| 28 | HARLEM NIGHTS Eddie Murphy 's movie with Richard Pryor pulls off the almost impossible : it shows two very funny men for nearly 1 ½ ; hours without raising a laugh . |
| 29 | It has to be said that of the two the TriAxis appears initially the most intimidating , but doubtless Boogie would argue that if you want the features you 've got to learn how to use the machine . |
| 30 | NOTING the column 's interest in football programmes , a reader sends perhaps the most improbable of all Roddymoor FC , Crook and District League Division One . |