Example sentences of "[art] [adj] and [adv] obvious [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As two leading historical demographers have recently stressed : " The largest and most obvious effect of the sharp rise in population in the eighteenth century was on the national average wage of labour . " |
| 2 | Ridges — in the loose sense of being high ground connecting summits — are natural highways and the clearest and most obvious way of making upland progress . |
| 3 | Early explanations of frost weathering alighted on the simple and seemingly obvious effect of the 9 per cent volume expansion which accompanies the phase change from water to ice . |
| 4 | The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion . |
| 5 | It is the simplest and most obvious layout , but there are , of course , other patterns — such as the radial pattern of so many modern housing estates — and it is odd that these others should not have been tried out until within our own time . |
| 6 | The simplest and most obvious example concerns individual differences in the susceptibility to anxiety . |
| 7 | The first and most obvious question which can be asked is , why call the union between a man and an operated transsexual a ‘ marriage' ? |
| 8 | The first and most obvious change is to increase the duration of each exercise , but keeping the rest periods constant , that is 30 seconds ' exercise followed by 1 5 seconds ' rest . |
| 9 | The first and most obvious difficulty is that a three-dimensional object can not fit satisfactorily on to a flat page . |
| 10 | The first and most obvious extension of the wireframe model is through the addition of surfaces . |
| 11 | The first and most obvious reason is that the public differences between the major parties have indeed got less : there seems little point in attacking on areas of large agreement . |
| 12 | The first and most obvious point concerns the wide range of categories Poulantzas posits in order to capture the workings of capitalist formations . |
| 13 | The biggest and most obvious drawback is the near total lack of equipment save for a radio , a heater and a rear screen wipe/wash . |
| 14 | The main and most obvious response is departmentalisation — the grouping of a diverse range of functions which nevertheless have something in common into a single central government department . |
| 15 | The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading . |
| 16 | My cousin was simply the easiest and most obvious target . |
| 17 | Often it can be useful to select a source with a strong and very obvious bias , at least initially . |