Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] of the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 2 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 3 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 4 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 5 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 6 | It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest paid people on British TV . |
| 7 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 8 | ‘ The Society can help keep them abreast of the latest news and put them in touch with others who have similar interests . ’ |
| 9 | We hope that this Update will keep you abreast of the latest developments in assessment and related issues . |
| 10 | Even now , I consider it one of the best machines ever made . |
| 11 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 12 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 13 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 14 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 15 | Mill Reefs victory had proved him one of the greatest European racehorses of the age . |
| 16 | I find it one of the fastest most exciting games about ! |
| 17 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 18 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 19 | If it does decide on Swindon , it would make it one of the biggest re-locations to the town . |
| 20 | Only last year the four-star Tiroler Adler underwent an extensive renovation that made it one of the best hotels in Kirchberg . |
| 21 | The internal length of this ‘ new cathedral ’ , 357 feet , made it one of the longest churches in Britain and certainly the greatest in Scotland . |
| 22 | The town showed the tenth highest percentage rise in Britain for 1991 and the huge increase of 136pc made it one of the worst places in the North-East for repossession orders . |
| 23 | Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants . |
| 24 | Virgin last night refused to comment , but estimates are that the deal could be worth well in excess of £50m , making it one of the largest investments by a Japanese organisation in a UK company . |
| 25 | A connoisseur of French and Italian drawings , Jacob Bean managed to double the number of European drawings in the collection to more than 4,000 , making it one of the largest and most distinguished in the States . |
| 26 | Thereafter it was continually in need of repair or subject to minor alteration until the Reformation , given a Lady Chapel for the cult of the Virgin in the later thirteenth century and , most obviously , a spire in the fifteenth century , making it one of the best landscape features of any medieval building , far less uniformly oppressive than Salisbury . |
| 27 | One of them carries Coslany Street north from St Laurence 's Church , and is a cast-iron bridge of 1804 , making it one of the earliest surviving iron bridges in Britain , built a quarter of a century after Shropshire 's famous pioneer at Ironbridge ( q.v . ) . |
| 28 | The Intel 386sx TM processor runs at 20Mhz making it one of the fastest SX 's on the market . |
| 29 | The Sprengel Museum re-opened in May after the completion of a new extension , making it one of the foremost museums for twentieth-century art in Europe ( see The Art Newspaper No. 14 , Janaury 1992 , p.9 ) . |
| 30 | The Soviet Union used to produce about 150,000 tonnes of tea a year , making it one of the biggest growers . |