Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [coord] [adv] comprehensive [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English is undoubtedly the finest and most comprehensive reference book available to help the advanced learner to meet this challenge and learn to use natural , colloquial English with confidence . |
| 2 | As befits its largest city , Cardiff boasts the largest and most comprehensive institute of higher education in the Principality , with the exception of the Polytechnic of Wales at Treforest : the South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education which was formed by the amalgamation of the Cardiff College of Food Technology and Commerce , Cardiff College of Education , Cardiff College of Art , and Llandaff College of Technology . |
| 3 | The poll , for the Press Association , is the largest and most comprehensive survey of the campaign . |
| 4 | Harrogate 89 was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever , featuring more than 260 exhibitors from 14 countries . |
| 5 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
| 6 | We can not do everything in a very limited time , so we must select what is essential on the fairest and most comprehensive basis possible : that is , what we think may help pupils to cope with , and make decisions about , things which happen to them — at any age and at any level ; and also what will encourage responsibility concerning the effects they themselves have on others . |
| 7 | No account of Churchill 's stewardship of Cabinet government is complete without mentioning the swiftest and most comprehensive Cabinet leak in the long history of unauthorized disclosure . |
| 8 | The biggest and most comprehensive opinion poll taken during the entire general election campaign almost certainly provides the most accurate snapshot of voting intentions . |
| 9 | Infertility : Your Questions Answered by Tan and Jacobs ( McGraw Hill , £8.50 ) is a clear and extremely comprehensive guide for couples with fertility problems . |
| 10 | The nursing profession is moving forward rapidly , and in its evolution it needs to develop a clearer and more comprehensive set of skills . |
| 11 | And Wagner spelled out the means : " I should like to advise you not to touch on such incredible views in short essays written … for popular effect , but … to concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject . " |
| 12 | The material of the two lectures , though not originally envisaged in this connection , provided the starting point — but only in the light of Wagner 's flattering advice to " concentrate on a larger and more comprehensive work on this subject " . |
| 13 | In this country where the same vicious law which imprisoned Wilde still operates one looks to those with pretensions to a scientific approach not to be victims of prejudice and intolerance but to give a lead for at least a saner and more comprehensive attitude towards the homosexual in society . ’ |
| 14 | Anne Lewin , 8 Porchester Place , London W2 ( 071–723 7741 ) sells a small but very comprehensive collection of underwear and night clothes , ranging from plain knitted cotton bodies with satin-bound V necks to delicate silk chemises trimmed with a double row of tiny Gothic points . |
| 15 | Indeed , a recent and very comprehensive survey of handwriting recognition techniques and systems considered its significance to merit just one sentence : ’ Higher level linguistic rules such as syntax and semantics can also increase the recognition rate ’ [ Tappert et al , 1990 ] . |
| 16 | I do not claim that this book is in any way a final or even comprehensive analysis of its subject matter . |