Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even his enemies would have to applaud his courage in facing the music after one of the greatest embarrassments in England 's history . |
| 2 | Even his enemies would have to applaud his courage in facing the music after one of the greatest embarrassments in England 's history . |
| 3 | Three months earlier , after one of the poorest seasons in their post-war history , Toulon were on their way to pool ‘ B ’ of the first division and rugby oblivion . |
| 4 | The National Trust looks after one of the largest collections in the world , and these works of art , plus other great and important collections in the British Isles , are described by Bruce Arnold in the fully illustrated Art Atlas published by Viking Penguin on 28 February at £25 . |
| 5 | This information helped the police catch the three culprits after one of the biggest manhunts in the history of California . |
| 6 | In the head , we sometimes find cases where the stressed syllables are not all high or all low , as in the following example : After one of the worst days of my life |
| 7 | To accommodate the different types of housing required , the Committee recommended a range of densities : from 30 persons per acre for suburban development to 100 persons per acre for town centres , rising to a maximum of 120 for the largest cities . |
| 8 | Kent County Council 's real plant was for not just 150 acres of development , but for 647 acres covering the entire site , making it potentially the largest business park in England — decimating the largely rural nature of the locality , with an eventual coverage of 5 million square feet — or the equivalent area of 100 of the largest supermarkets . |
| 9 | The United Kingdom Meteorological Office announced at the end of November 1989 that the 1980s had been the warmest decade worldwide since records had been kept , with six out of 10 of the warmest years since the mid-19th century having occurred during this period . |
| 10 | The main body of the book comprises full-page colour illustrations of sixty-five of the finest pastels ( a number previously unpublished ) with detailed commentaries . |
| 11 | Last week his treasury under-secretary , Lawrence Summers , said that America would write off half the debts of 18 of the poorest countries in Africa . |
| 12 | Research conducted in the United States discovered that for the top five executives from a sample of 50 of the largest companies three times as much income came from shares as from employment . |
| 13 | She found herself being slowly torn apart in her loyalties : on the one hand she felt proud to have been chosen as a wife by the head of one of the noblest families in Portugal , and she longed to start her new life ; but on the other , she could not help drawing back instinctively from what lay ahead . |
| 14 | In the instance of one of the commonest cancers , a kidney tumour called Wilm 's tumour , Andrew Shaw found that the tumour arises when both copies of chromosome 11 are defective . |
| 15 | Of the dedication and devotion of one of the best crews , of the coxing genius of Sam Benham , of the brilliance of coaches like Mike Spracklen and Pat Sweeney . |
| 16 | He says they moved out of one of the best hotels , into a villa . |
| 17 | Erm which is metal is sort of one of the best conductors of electricity ? |
| 18 | Cutting deeply into Saddleworth Moor , this delightful boulder-strewn ravine with its series of cascades , provides a pleasant approach up to the craggy belvedere and the start of one of the best edges traverses in the northern Peak . |
| 19 | And then then risk the life of one of the best rabbits we 've got , just to play nursey while you go wandering about like a moon-struck field-mouse . |
| 20 | Celtae was the name of one of the best units in Julian 's army ( Ammianus 20.4.2 ) , and Julian himself says that it was inconceivable to all men that a Celtic or Galatian soldier should turn his back to the enemy ( Orat. 1 , Paneg . |
| 21 | His book ‘ Scramble ! ’ was published in London in 1961 and described frankly and modestly the unrelenting exploits of one of the sharpest thorns in the side of the Luftwaffe . |
| 22 | In a ’ State of Trade Enquiry ’ report published in November by the Building Employers Confederation , we read the outline of one of the bleakest futures for any construction sector in the whole of Europe . |
| 23 | Hence by 1914 a large proportion of one of the largest groups traditionally provided for by the Poor Law had been substantially removed from direct association with it . |
| 24 | A high tide had led to predictions of one of the largest bores of the year . |
| 25 | Moira , one of three sisters , was never found in spite of one of the largest inquiries in the Lanarkshire area . |
| 26 | I chose the St Edmund Hall book I did because it was by a contemporary politician , and also because it was representative of one of the largest classes of dispersed books , those used by the immediately preceding generation : that is , those published in the fifties and sixties . |
| 27 | The exhibition , curated by Peter Hamilton in close association with the photographer , will also show contact sheets and publications in which the photographs first appeared and provide an opportunity to assess the work of one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century ( 18 Apr. –21 June ) . |
| 28 | Family financial problems and Whitehall procrastination jeopardised the future of one of the finest ensembles of Victorian taste . |
| 29 | I saw the infant children of one of the finest second-rowers in the Phil Lowe tradition , Crusher Cleal , playing with their father 's steaming boots . |
| 30 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |