Example sentences of "the [adv] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rubrics in the 1662 Order for the Burial of the Dead only make mention of the ‘ corpse ’ or ‘ body ’ : ‘ The Priest and Clerks , meeting the Corpse at the entrance of the Church-yard … . ’ ; |
| 2 | Botanically this oasis is now one of the most completely studied areas of continental Antarctica ( Pickard , 1986b , 1986c ) . |
| 3 | The circumstances leading to Darwin 's discovery of the theory of natural selection form one of the most intensively studied areas of the history of science . |
| 4 | Fewer than 10% of respondents answered this question negatively , making it one of the most unambiguously supported proposals in the paper . |
| 5 | The most thoroughly studied case is ‘ indigenization ’ in Nigeria , and I shall discuss this in detail in Chapter 4 . |
| 6 | The most thoroughly surveyed site is at a depth of 2000 metres in the Galapagos Rift Valley . |
| 7 | We parked the cars beside the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology 's Experimental Station ( Monks Wood is the most thoroughly researched wood in the country ! ) and changed into our wellingtons . |
| 8 | The presence of international factors even in the most domestically oriented changes can be seen by considering again the establishment of the welfare state . |
| 9 | Their success in gripping the public mind can be compared today only to the most avidly watched television programmes . |
| 10 | The most badly effected sector was consumables , where revenues dropped 19.7% . |
| 11 | Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance . |
| 12 | In offending the most dearly held shibboleths of common decency and accepted business practice , the group had , after all , achieved what they set out to do . |
| 13 | A seminal influence in this style of thinking has been Gilbert Ryle 's exposure of the category mistake , which implies that the most logically organized case may crumble because it turns out to depend on unnoticed analogies . |
| 14 | Many of the earliest public libraries were busily involved in adult education , providing lectures and discussion meetings , arranging exhibitions and displays , and going out with some of their stock to societies and schools and clubs in the most admirably proselytizing manner ; many actually had art galleries and museums under their care as well , providing an early example of multi-media provision . |
| 15 | Fenella gasped and felt the sour bitterness of evil magic touching her and remembered that the Stroicim Inchinn was the most strongly forbidden enchantment of all , and that whatever else they were going to be doing here , they were not going to be dealing with forbidden spells . |
| 16 | His mother , by contrast , is the most vividly realised character in the book : nervy , flirtatious and selfish , already on her third husband , she thinks primarily of her appearance , even when visiting her dying daughter , Francis 's twin . |
| 17 | With the most artfully devised deliberation she managed not to avoid it , tripped spectacularly in such a fashion that she fell forward , the contents of the tea-tray , cups , saucers , dregs of tea , milk , sugar and cream cakes , all cascading neatly into Mrs Darrell 's lap , with McAllister herself , purple in the face as a consequence of stifling a dreadful desire to laugh , landing gracefully on her knees at the good lady 's feet . |
| 18 | LC expressed levels of E-cadherin as high as those expressed by the most intensely stained KC . |
| 19 | The purges have proved to be one of the most hotly debated topics for historians because , due to the harsh censorship and killing of many opponents of Stalin , there is a lack of opinion and primary sources which show how they affected the whole country , and nobody could read Stalin 's obviously warped mind to find out his reasons for this holocaust . |
| 20 | Translating aims into specific objectives can assist in removing the confusions that can arise between intentions and practice , but beyond this the case for objectives is less certain ; in fact , it has been one of the most hotly debated innovations in teaching for some time . |
| 21 | SPONSORSHIP has become the most hotly debated subject in television . |
| 22 | Michael Forsyth , the Scottish Office minister whose portfolio includes two of the most hotly debated issues of the election campaign — health and education — had just been formally adopted by his constituency association to contest the Stirling seat . |
| 23 | The most hotly debated point concerning Tatarstan 's relationship with Russia described Tatarstan as a sovereign state , a subject of international law , associated with the Russian Federation — Russia — on the basis of a treaty on the mutual delegation of powers . |
| 24 | The other big piece in the book by one of the area 's longtime residents , Raphael Samuel , is both a social history of one of the most fascinatingly mixed areas of London and a passionate polemic against the fruit-market being forced to leave . |
| 25 | Service providers would do well to reflect on the evidence presented that common patterns of targeting resources actually discriminate against some of the most heavily involved carers in respect of certain services , and certainly do not lead to higher levels of support for them overall . |
| 26 | But France , perhaps the most heavily governed nation in early modern Europe , serves to show how lightly bureaucracy weighed upon the population of England . |
| 27 | For these purposes they would also tend to wear the most heavily reinforced boots and might occasionally carry weapons of some kind . |
| 28 | In an attempt to continue funding its advanced welfare state , successive governments had borrowed overseas to finance budget deficits , while also presiding over one of the most heavily regulated economies in the capitalist world . |
| 29 | In terms of numbers of banks the USA is the most heavily represented country , but in terms of market share the Japanese now account for nearly one-third of the market . |
| 30 | Among these , toward the end of the period , are Susanna Blamire and Joanna Baillie who are among the most heavily represented poets in the anthology . |