Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] extreme [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
2 | His father 's idea of universities was narrow in the extreme and possibly based on his own education which had been one of strict discipline and the basic three Rs ; he had left school at thirteen and had to work hard for very little reward . |
3 | Leonard Bernstein 's five-movement Serenade , inspired ( if that is the word ) by Plato 's Symposium , is dreary in the extreme and dispiritingly derivative ( sub-Stavinsky , sub-Copland , sub-Ives ) ; and it is vapid to listen to . |
4 | At times it has been acrimonious to an extreme and very public . |
5 | By being on top he avoids being vulnerable , but vulnerable he is and , contrary to appearances , sensitive in the extreme and often crying out for dependency . |