Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is one of the finest hairdressers we have and there is nothing he ca n't do with hair ; whether it 's chignons for Princess Alexandra , wigs for Cher of shoots for vogue . |
| 2 | Between Silver and myself , we got together a crew of the toughest seamen you can imagine . |
| 3 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 4 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 5 | Where information is adequate from the poorest nations it points to a close relationship between poverty , underdevelopment and the spread of AIDS . |
| 6 | The largest tortoises you will see in the park are descended from specimens from Aldabra Island in the Indian Ocean . |
| 7 | One of the finest books I ever had to review was Janet and Allan Ahlbergs Funnybones , a brilliant tale of what a skeleton family gets up to at night when everyone else is in bed . |
| 8 | It is an observable fact that the greatest drivers I have known have all been highly safety conscious : a sign that their minds ruled their instincts . |
| 9 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |
| 10 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 11 | Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti-semitism , at the very bottom , is anti-God , it opposed to revelation . |
| 12 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |
| 13 | I confess she was one of the merriest tumbles I have ever had . |
| 14 | If you are the number one in the market and have the strongest brands it could be argued that you do not necessarily need to have the strongest people ! |
| 15 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 16 | No comfortable chairs , and the ugliest curtains I 've ever seen . |
| 17 | The fact that Liz had also said Ross was kind , overwhelmingly generous , and one of the sexiest men she 'd ever met was not something that Laura wanted to think about at the moment . |
| 18 | ‘ Our strategy is to use the cheapest workstations we can find , ’ says Rodney Armitage , head of management services , ‘ because if you lose one you 've only lost one person . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's done , and although I say so me'self , it 's one of the neatest jobs I 've ever performed . ’ |
| 20 | Supt Bernie Holmes who was heading the search said last night that this was one of the saddest cases he has ever had to deal with . |
| 21 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 22 | None of this had escaped French notice , and some of the heaviest mortars they could muster had been brought up ; resulting in the burying alive of many of the Bavarians underneath their Stollen . |
| 23 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 24 | He sensed that his father had moved away and guessed what he must be doing : fortifying the boards with the heaviest things he could drag : the sack of provisions , the bench-boards , the high chair itself . |
| 25 | The stupidest things I do he calls witty . |
| 26 | Having begun the week convinced that Emily , after her attack on his Nesselrode pudding , was one of the stupidest females he had met , Heinrich had seven days later become quite besotted by her beauty , wit and charm . |
| 27 | At lowest energies we find the so-called core levels , corresponding to filled shells and sub-shells ( 1s 2 ) , ( 2s 2 2p 6 ) and ( 3S 2 3p 6 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Not the oddest of jobs and being an odd job man I like the oddest jobs I can get but it has to be done . ’ |
| 29 | Erm , being with the S S P C A , I have seen a lot of very sad pictures of animals , but one of the saddest photographs I saw , quite recently was two monkeys , well they 're primates , we are |
| 30 | Within a decade , Fothergill was able to give Marshall a descriptive account of the flourishing Upton garden acknowledged , he said , ‘ by the ablest botanists we have , that there is not a richer bit of ground in curious American plants in Great Britain ; and for many of the most curious I am obliged to thy diligence and care . ’ |