Example sentences of "and [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everybody is excited about the UN order as it 's a first for us and tremendously important for the future , ’ said . |
| 2 | At death a series of rites enabled the pharaoh himself to become Osiris and thereby safe from the depredations of time . |
| 3 | He chose a subject for his PhD — the idea of the Sublime in Romantic poetics — which sounded reassuringly serious to the traditionalists and off-puttingly dry to the Young Turks , but which neither party knew much about , so Charles was not drawn into the front-line controversy in his own research . |
| 4 | They are already directly and effectively involved in the fight against crime — which , alas , is all too real — and are performing the role that my hon. Friend wants them to perform . |
| 5 | They still guard the interests of the smallest and most protectionist of the country 's auctioneers who would be bankrupted by an open market . |
| 6 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar , which was where Mahmoud was taking them , was one of the oldest and most traditional of the bazaars . |
| 7 | How did this greatest and most awe-inspiring of the great cats come to make the East its special domain ? |
| 8 | Romania , the largest and most influential of the three , makes items in a wide range of qualities , sizes and designs ( pl. 25 ) . |
| 9 | The Yugoslav federation entered a period of severe political crisis in mid-March , following the violent suppression on March 9 of an anti-communist demonstration in Belgrade , the federal capital and capital of Serbia , largest and most influential of the six republics in the federation . |
| 10 | ( Edited by Peter Edwards , available from Essex CCC , ) is the fattest and most thorough of the yearbooks received , probably because , as the editorial points out , last year ‘ there were so many aspects of Essex 's Championship success ’ . |
| 11 | Much else in the city centre has been cleaned and restored : the neo-Romanesque Central Station of 1905 , in whose gilded ticket hall contemporary music is played ; the Gothic cathedral , the largest and most impressive in the Low Countries ; and the Grote Markt , an irregular triangle of 16th-century guild houses ( Antwerp is a town of asymmetry : one of the cathedral 's twin towers is only half-built ) . |
| 12 | The commercial agora on Ephesos was one of the largest and most impressive in the world . |
| 13 | If the conflicts have been most evident in direct cultural production , they have been most complex and most general in the crucial formative area of education , where the direct controls of established institutions of reproduction have been easier to maintain , largely because the influence of market forces has been very much less relevant , and the only major factor of asymmetry has been the ( always practically weaker ) claim of professional and cultural independence . |
| 14 | Personal convictions provide the strongest pressure in making professional judgments , and two of the most powerful and most relevant in the question of censorship are moral principles and political beliefs . |
| 15 | MALAYSIA : On the west coast , Penang is the largest and most developed of the islands , with attractive beaches and an interesting history ( it is the oldest British settlement in Malaysia ) . |
| 16 | That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories . |
| 17 | Neo-evolutionism rejects this unilinear dogma , and argues that there are many possible paths from the traditional to the modern , though there is a strong supposition that the capitalist road via pluralist democracy resulting in something like the contemporary United States and Western Europe , is the best and most efficient of the alternatives . |
| 18 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 19 | But the brand new church can press the question : what at this time is most pleasing to God and most helpful to the completely unchurched outsider ? |
| 20 | The consecration of the High Priest to his office , the highest and most sacred in the nation , was effected by sprinkling his garments and daubing his right ear , thumb and foot with the blood of a sacrificed animal ( Exod. |
| 21 | It is the largest and most central of the security forces : the Army and UDR take their orders from it . |
| 22 | The largest and most radical of the opposition parties , the Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , led by Kim Dae Jung , was excluded from the merger . |
| 23 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 24 | But for all of the work he has carried out , Barlow Clowes has proved to the largest and most complex in the office 's 22 year history . |
| 25 | La Paysanne , executed at La Rue-des-Bois ( where Picasso spent most of August ) , or shortly after Picasso 's return to Paris , is one of the largest and most powerful of the group . |
| 26 | In the late 1060s and 1070s Hildebrand , later Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) , gave more consistent support to the last and most effective of the Patarine leaders , Erlembald , a noble demagogue ; and Milan became a theatre of war between the pope and the Emperor Henry IV . |
| 27 | He is helped by some good performances , too , especially from Danny Webb as the cleverest and most conscience-racked of the sales force . |
| 28 | While a feminist linguistics will probably want to make strategic use of all these responses , it is this last one , in my opinion , that is most radical theoretically , and most resistant to the danger that research into male/female differences will be co-opted to serve the existing sexist system . |
| 29 | THE fourth quarter of the year is our busiest and most profitable in the pre-Christmas trading period . |
| 30 | It was the start of a brewing business that , some 200 years later , would be one of the largest and most profitable in the world , a business which would be based on the dark , bitter stout that bore his name — Guinness . |