Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 3 | US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert . |
| 4 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 5 | Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost . |
| 6 | New products developed by the best-performing machine-tool makers tended to start their lives with ‘ fuzzy ’ specifications , allowing for significant design changes before they reached the customer . |
| 7 | Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , the abrasive and ambitious Speaker , whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis . |
| 8 | In elements with multiple electron orbits , the smallest orbits correspond with the lowest energy and these fill up first . |
| 9 | Then he lay in a Dublin hospital bed with his neck in a brace , his rugby future hanging by the merest thread . |
| 10 | Doyle 's eyes flickered to the nearest table behind Rosie . |
| 11 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 12 | But as he inspected the size of the Tories ' losses on May 6th even the home secretary , Kenneth Clarke , usually a man to find a silver lining in the blackest cloud , admitted that the government was in ‘ a dreadful hole ’ . |
| 13 | A relief to Léonie , not to have to observe him sitting knees crossed in the best armchair daintily sipping his apéritif , one hand going up to smooth his shining black hair . |
| 14 | They stood as motionless as the wax figures surrounding them , ears alert for the slightest sound , eyes roving around the darkened gallery for any trace of movement . |
| 15 | Try crashing an electron into a gatepost and you might find that it decides of its own accord to orbit round the nearest dandelion . |
| 16 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 17 | Peter Walker advises on the latest court ruling on how much information the liquidators can give the police |
| 18 | Hrun nodded , his eyes fixed on the latest picture . |
| 19 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 20 | Lucy hesitated for the merest second . |
| 21 | He heard the tell-tale sound of a horse whinnying in the largest barn , and ran to unfasten the door . |
| 22 | Parties compete for the greenest mantle . |
| 23 | From their figure , however , it can be extrapolated that the labelling index tended to level off , at a gastrin concentration corresponding to the lowest concentration giving maximal effect in the present study . |
| 24 | Data relate to the best fit of SIC Groups to nationalized industries and public services of 1981 . |
| 25 | Having searched this field to the best of my ability I left with the intention to return at the earliest opportunity . |
| 26 | The potentiometer is a stable cermet multi-turn type to allow the high resolution setting required at the highest sensitivity . |
| 27 | In practice the output rises sharply when the echo returns from the nearest point on the planet but dies away slowly as echoes arrive from surrounding regions of the planet 's surface . |
| 28 | The Neville Brothers feature on the best track ‘ Let the hammer fall ’ . |
| 29 | This he had learnt from Ann herself , who had forecast the sex of both babies by means of a golden ring suspended by the longest whisker of a white cat . |
| 30 | Because of this Barro treats as the best prediction that could be made by rational agents of the value of . |