Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj -est] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there . |
| 2 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |
| 3 | The World Data Matrix ( Appendix A ) contains data for the largest 100 countries of the world and some of the African countries whose borders have been digitized are not included . |
| 4 | PETER SCUDAMORE , who breaks records as easily as a psychotic disc jockey , was at it again yesterday , shattering his own mark for the fastest 50 winners by a National Hunt jockey when he rode In-Keeping to an easy victory at Wincanton . |
| 5 | Brussels had framed the legislation under a section of the Treaty of Rome which authorises the Commission to aim for the highest possible levels of environmental protection and allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers when member states are unable to agree . |
| 6 | For the SGML-aware , we present here a somewhat simplified version of the SGML declarations for the highest level elements in the TEI scheme : |
| 7 | MIDDLESBROUGH defender Derek Whyte thanks his lucky stars that the English Premier League has licked him into shape for the toughest 90 minutes of his football life . |
| 8 | Control is vested in local planning authorities , who are under a duty to ens–e that all land and property within their area is used for the best possible purposes in view of the shortage of land and the needs of the community . |
| 9 | The sum of £25 will be awarded for the best new captions to the cartoons below , which were first printed in 1881 and 1938 . |
| 10 | Two bottles of J&B will be awarded for the best new captions to the cartoons below , which were first printed in 1881 and 1938 . |
| 11 | Some enlightened companies , like Joshua Tetley in the 1980s , even started their own special designation schemes for the best historic pubs in their tied estates . |
| 12 | This was one of the topics among the several Radharc films which , over the years , have been awarded UNDA-WACC prizes for the best religious programmes on television . |
| 13 | The winner of the Queen 's gold award for the best architectural projects of the year , Mr. Stansfield Smith — for Hampshire county council schools as it happens , an authority that is proud of local provision by an in-house organisation — has described the programme as being as much about ’ cheap politics as about cheap buildings ’ . |
| 14 | The Abyss builds on the heritage of computer special effects , while Oliver and Company offers a showcase for the latest technical additions to the classic Disney school of animation . |
| 15 | I stood in the gloaming for the longest 30 seconds of my life while someone looked for a light switch . |
| 16 | I still fell for it , as one still falls for the oldest literary devices in the right hands and contexts . |
| 17 | The SEALs were described to this reviewer by a former USSF officer as the toughest special forces in Vietnam , and this does not mean that they were braggarts . |
| 18 | I would be inclined to choose Abbado 's COE versions ( DG ) as the finest available recordings of the Fourth and Sixth Symphonies on modern instruments ( or Wand 's on RCA if you really must have full orchestral forces ) , and until now the Hanover Band under Roy Goodman ( Nimbus ) have had the field to themselves , ‘ authentically ’ speaking . |
| 19 | Roamers of the countryside , surprise was their chief weapon , great daring being shown in what some regarded as the finest military feats of all , the capture of walled towns and castles which were then ransomed , having perhaps been used in the meanwhile as bases for military activity further afield . |
| 20 | The figures , in what the company described as the worst economic conditions for almost half a century , enabled it to boost its dividend for shareholders . |
| 21 | Texas still has about the weakest campaign-finance laws of any big state , and some of its politicians still rely on lobbyists to pay for everything from trips and meals to golf tournaments . |
| 22 | Stop for an Italian coffee at Mokafé or browse through the latest French novels in Tropismes . |
| 23 | The grain deal was concluded in the context of broader negotiations in Vienna on a bilateral trade agreement which could open the way for the US to accord most favoured nation ( MFN ) status to the Soviet Union , entailing the application of the lowest available tariffs on Soviet goods . |
| 24 | Clearly , these developments have a dual importance for the College : firstly , they represent an extension of the Welsh medium and bilingual provision , an important aspect of the work of the College ; and secondly they are part of the diversification process which is vital to the continued existence of an institution which presently has one of the lowest teacher-training targets in England and Wales . |
| 25 | Meanwhile detailed research in the British archives has revealed that the policy-makers in London down to 1945 ( and later ) were neither united in their interpretation of postwar Soviet intentions , nor single-mindedly intent upon the cultivation of the closest possible ties with the United States . |
| 26 | Along with the mosaics of section 4.2 above , the mosaics from the Blackfriars and St. Nicholas Street sites , Leicester , provide evidence for one of the closest stylistic relationships between any mosaics in second century Britain . |
| 27 | Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop . |
| 28 | And yet she was in one of the nicest private rooms in the hospital ; she had a telephone and a television ; her nightgown was a silly frou-frou of frills and spilling lace and on her thin fingers the rings — diamonds and sapphires in platinum — rattled as she clasped and unclasped the sheet . |
| 29 | LYRIC FANTASY , one of the fastest two-year-old fillies of the modern era , was last night sold for 340,000 guineas at public auction . |
| 30 | Today Oman is one of the fastest developing countries in the world . |