Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Santa Clara , California-based , Quest Windows Corp has debuted the latest version 3.0.1 of Quest ObjectViews , its object-oriented C++ user interface development tool for X-Windows , supporting OSF/Motif and Open Look : ships begin in the third quarter , prices start at $2,500 per seat . |
| 2 | Jimmy Walker is celebrating a juicy record — the green-fingered genius has got the biggest melon in Britain ! |
| 3 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise seasonal goods — eg camping equipment will be promoted in the spring , ready for the summer . |
| 4 | The retailer needs to know the best time to advertise … goods . |
| 5 | England 's retiring manager Micky Stewart promised to investigate the latest row at Uxbridge last Sunday but that is unlikely to affect the £15,000 winter contract already offered to the country 's top players . |
| 6 | Boys from unskilled , working-class homes tend to have the hardest time ; at 11 years , 36 per cent were beaten with an implement by the father , the mother or both . |
| 7 | The President of the National Coal Association has rejected the latest government charges , denying that tampering is routine in large numbers of mines . |
| 8 | But it is in the area of conversational analysis that ethnomethodology has made the greatest contribution . |
| 9 | Laughing Stock says that its Red Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers has achieved the highest sell-in for an audio book since the BBC 's Blackadder . |
| 10 | The 24-year-old central defender has hit the best form of his career . |
| 11 | And finally , rally ace Colin McRae has achieved the best place by a British driver in any World Championship event : by finishing second in the Swedish rally . |
| 12 | Neither slinky dresses nor thigh-throttling jeans and undulating cleavage seem to arouse the slightest passion into those zombies on the terraces . |
| 13 | By the 1660s , Rome had given up all thoughts of the forcible deposition of the English Protestant monarchy ; indeed , in the 1670s its cautious and reluctant response to the proposed marriage of the heir to the throne James and the Catholic noblewoman Mary of Modena threatened to block the best route for a peaceful end to the English schism , and Rome continued to offer only lukewarm support to James both before and after 1685 . |
| 14 | A worthwhile accessory for the home woodworker aiming to make the best use of a router . |
| 15 | The Department of Employment has said that the market testing programme aims to provide the best value for money for the taxpayer . |
| 16 | The budget allowed for a lower proportion to be spent on debt-servicing ( 97,000 million francs CFA or $292 million , as compared with 170,000 million francs CFA or $512 million in 1988-89 ) , with the Defence , Public Health and Education Ministries continuing to receive the largest share . |
| 17 | TEENAGER Cameron Springthorpe hopes to become the youngest person ever to sail across the Atlantic single-handed . |
| 18 | Growers trained to use the latest technology may very accurately predict disease or infestation and , by taking prompt action , can prevent problems from occurring . |
| 19 | The first neutrons to arrive had the highest energy and the later ones had lower energies . |
| 20 | Instead , I directed Posi to pinpoint my position with her ceptors , then to access — discreetly , for it was probably illegal — Vadinamia 's central data store to find the nearest opening to the interior . |
| 21 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
| 22 | By the end of the season it was apparent that Arsenal had signed the nearest thing in football to David Berry and The Cruisers . |
| 23 | Last summer Frankie had climbed the tallest ash and found himself in a whole new world . |
| 24 | The charges for prescriptions have seen the sharpest rise — an increase of no less than 1,425 per cent between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 25 | Helmut Rechenburg , his collaborator on this mammoth project , was Heisenberg 's last doctoral student , and clearly well suited to the task in hand Faced with so much material , it must be hard to know what to leave out , and the authors have chosen the best solution — leave nothing out . |
| 26 | American scientist working for the Astrophysics Institute at the University of Colorado in Boulder have created the lowest temperature ever recorded — one millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 27 | CARDIFF rugby club have made the biggest signing in their history . |
| 28 | The estimates of these contingencies tend to consider the worst outcome from the point of view of the local authorities . |
| 29 | In common with other mammalian species , the individual chromosomes of the mouse can be recognized by using a variety of different banding methods but G-banding has found the greatest favour and also provides the basis for the standard idiogram which is illustrated in Figure 4 . |
| 30 | Since its introduction in 1989 , the campaign has earned the highest awareness ever for Harp advertising . |