Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Streamline Graded Readers cater for the earliest levels of language learning . |
| 4 | Then they heard — their ears alert for the slightest changes in the grind of the traffic — a car slowing just behind them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lucy hesitated for the merest second . |
| 8 | Parties compete for the greenest mantle . |
| 9 | Tracey said she recruited many of her adult models by trooping the disco and nightclub circuit looking for the latest talent . |
| 10 | But in fact the Mort Homme , with its sinister name acquired from some long-forgotten tragedy of another age , was to be the centre of the most bitter , see-saw fighting for the best part of the next three months . |
| 11 | The climate sensitivity , T 2x , solar forcing scaling factor , β , and percentage of the observed temperature variance explained for the best-fit simulations associated with the greenhouse-forcing-alone , greenhouse-plus-solar and solar-forcing-alone analyses . |
| 12 | Dawn Adams and Ann Welsh received the Charles Whiteside memorial trophies for their 1500 displays , with the Norman Graves award for the best boys middle distance win going to Liverpool 's Paul Lamb . |
| 13 | Kirov forced himself to examine the faked photograph in detail , his keen eye searching for the slightest flaw . |
| 14 | You will see groups of them clustered way out beyond the breaking surf waiting for the best waves . |
| 15 | The votary of ahi sā strives for the greatest good of all , which means that he goes beyond utilitarianism . |
| 16 | It 's to participate and support anything that encourages charities to strive for the highest standards . |
| 17 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 18 | But if I were Ben Hogan , and a Bob Hamilton or Willie Goggin chipped in to beat me in The Masters , a Walter Burkemo holed a sand shot to swipe the PGA , a raw rookie — pick one — holed a 7-iron to beat me somewhere in Florida and then the like of a Bud Holscher or a Shelley Mayfield holed yet another sand shot to steal yet another victory , then I 'd not only be scouring the Fort Worth Yellow Pages looking for the nearest shrink , I might even think of tossing myself under a freight train in the nearest marshalling yard . |
| 19 | They emerged as a result of substantial research undertaken by a series of urban experiments operating for the best part of a decade . |
| 20 | The fast readers were more efficient than the slow readers in using grammatical predictability and in integrating different ideas in a sentence , but the factor accounting for the largest difference involved word-recognition processes . |
| 21 | Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident . |
| 22 | Top cash are on offer to professional and amateur players with £150 added for the highest break in the competition by bookmaker Joe Suckling . |
| 23 | Contestants in fancy dress will be judged at 10.20 with a prize offered for the best outfit . |
| 24 | Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals . |
| 25 | For a moment she lost her mother in the crowd of horses and riders and foot followers , as people jostled for the best position , or to ride alongside their fancy . |
| 26 | The prospect of a man of fitzAlan 's size ever losing control , no matter what the cause , was enough to make any sane woman run for the nearest convent . |
| 27 | GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions . |
| 28 | By JOHN EDWARDS GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions . |
| 29 | Within social work the quest continued for the best way to organize a service that could be responsive to community need . |
| 30 | Teachers ' salaries account for the largest proportion of education spending in all types of school , though this varies from around 70% in primary and secondary schools to 59% in special schools . |