Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What i-the cheapest way of lowering the gearing ? |
| 2 | A half-hour subway ride into Brooklyn , it has the third-highest incidence of drug-related crimes in America . |
| 3 | Norway , with the third-highest tax burden in 1989 , had an annual average growth rate of 3.1 % in the period 1976–91 , nearly 25% above the OECD average of 2.5% per annum , and ranked as high as second in terms of growth rate . |
| 4 | The government rejected the highest offer , fudged the auction rules , then accepted a revised offer from the third-highest bidder , who was given 26% of the bank 's shares . |
| 5 | Because of their heavy running costs , the big companies have a built-in disposition towards the type of popular music which is capable of the widest-possible appeal . |
| 6 | ‘ I remember thinking Hawaiian music was so bad , the corniest shit in the world . |
| 7 | it hurts are when we grab the moment for ourselves , nearly — the corniest sunset , taste of a lover 's tears , a fistful of snow |
| 8 | The grandest exposition of the Grand Iranian Design was given on November 14th , 1986 , just after the operation had been disclosed . |
| 9 | The eighteenth-century Château de Remaisnil is magnificent by any standards ; it was by far the grandest home the Ashleys had yet lived in and it presented them with numerous challenges of a personal and artistic nature , not least of which was learning to speak French . |
| 10 | Allegedly Pierremont originally named Pierpont which translates as ‘ the house on the hill overlooking the Cocker Beck ’ was built in the 1830s by John Botcherby who swore that it would be the grandest villa in town and that the Peases would never own it . |
| 11 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
| 12 | Smooth , dark and handsome in morning dress and blue cravat , he took his place in the wedding pictures with one of the grandest families in the land at Althorp , Northants . |
| 13 | If there is shame in this story , it is less that the Marcoses finally stood revealed as nobodies and as thieves on the grandest scale , and far more in the wasted opportunities . |
| 14 | St Pancras typifies on the grandest scale the tendency for big city stations to be fronted by hotels . |
| 15 | From this base he mounted a successful practice executing public works and speculative building on the grandest scale , only halted by bankruptcy in the financial crash of 1793 . |
| 16 | The park sloped down gently from his undistinguished seventeenth-century brick house , the grandest part of which was the stable block , to the lake below . |
| 17 | After 4 a.m. on the morning of the twenty-seventh the eruption appeared to die down a little , but the grandest moments were yet to come . |
| 18 | It 's a very versatile shape for everyone from the slender to the grandest size . |
| 19 | ‘ In there ’ , pointed Tom , ‘ is Mutton House , the grandest dwelling in the town . |
| 20 | A big , physically powerful lawyer born into the most distinguished of the half-dozen Hong Kong families with a genuine claim to ‘ old money ’ status , T S Lo was by his early forties one of the grandest figures in the colonial establishment . |
| 21 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 22 | The grandest idea of all , however , was never attempted , even though , according to North , Reagan had thought it ‘ great ’ . |
| 23 | This , together with an ‘ Elm Shell , covered with 4lb lead , lined , ruffled , and pillow ’ would provide a creature fit for the grandest vault . |
| 24 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 25 | But perhaps the grandest shopping to be had in the area is at the Victoria Quarter . |
| 26 | Ironically , this proudly bourgeois country has the grandest resorts , notably St Moritz and Gstaad . |
| 27 | And even those who do achieve something lack the scope to go further because ‘ Indians and India are the grandest failures in a long time ’ . |
| 28 | Beyond Broadford , the region of the Red Hills is bypassed and after rounding the head of Loch Ainort , the road comes alongside Loch Sligachan and turns inland to reveal a first sighting of the mystic spires of the Black Cuillin , the grandest mountains in all Britain — a journey of twenty-five miles from the ferry . |
| 29 | Republic Day in January is celebrated all over India and in the grandest style ! |
| 30 | It was the grandest building in Montevideo when it was built , and adopted a style which seems to have been particularly congenial to Latin American nationalism , Second Empire . |