Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vasil Mohorita , still in his 30s and the youngest member of the reshuffled politburo , becomes first secretary of the party . |
| 2 | He 's about to tackle what must be the longest and the loneliest battle of all — swimming the English channel . |
| 3 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 4 | The pace of technological change is such that the latest generation of machines is now capable of drawing graphs , working out algebraic formulae , correcting spelling mistakes and communicating with computers outside the examination room . |
| 5 | For example , if the inheritance boundary is set to 10 and the latest version of the module is in state 5 , then a new unapproved version of the module will inherit state and hence enter state 5 . |
| 6 | Choose the position of the brackets so that the end bracket is as high up as possible and the lowest point of the gutter ( at the outlet position ) is not more than 50mm ( 2in ) below the roof drip . |
| 7 | It seemed obvious that the best form of organization for overseas trade was the one that was used first in exporting wool and then by the cloth traders , who still accounted for three-quarters of English exports in the first half of the century : all the merchants involved would sell together at a ‘ staple ’ town , usually in Belgium or the Netherlands , where they could avoid competing with each other and so increase their bargaining strength . |
| 8 | I bit her nose — only a little and the tiniest bit of blood . |
| 9 | This pump-house was fully automatic and the latest example of technological design . |
| 10 | Current trends in tourism indicate that the demand for all but the highest standard of caravan accommodation , is now on the wane , and the message from tourist consultants to site operators is that they must quickly go ‘ up market ’ by significantly up- grading the standard of accommodation and associated facilities on offer . |
| 11 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 12 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 13 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 14 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 15 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 16 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 17 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 18 | This is not , of course , the only or the first or the commonest use of the word ; we have borrowed it from people who believe in gods . |
| 19 | The Birmingham Assay Office reported in 1966 that the oldest part of the arrow , the main tube and point , could be c1600 , while the flights and flight end tube are probably c1700 . |
| 20 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 21 | With the benefit of the latest steam-XXXX turbines , the new plant is planned to achieve thermal efficiency of 52 per cent — a 20 per cent increase over that of normal coal power stations , and 12 per cent higher than the best performance of nuclear plants . |
| 22 | The most impressive and the greatest example of secular Medieval architecture in Europe was the Cloth Hall at Ypres , built 1200–1304 . |
| 23 | If therefore , the well-being of a state consists in the mature well-being of the people , a country is then most flourishing when the largest proportion of its population is able to satisfy these two natural desires . |
| 24 | It is vital that the best use of scarce resources should occur and that the best possible decisions are made . |
| 25 | In summary , the Pacific is not simply the biggest and the deepest quarter of the world ocean . |
| 26 | the file generation number will be one greater than the highest generation of any file with the same name and extension as the outcoming binary file , held in the user 's account . |
| 27 | It is hardly surprising that the highest number of accidents occur in the home . |
| 28 | Medics and educationalists were keenly aware that the best way of inculcating the laws of health was through a stress on the pleasures to be gained from PT . |
| 29 | Inside , it felt so phoney that the merest glimmer of amusement would have sent an embarrassed blush swirling up from her neck to her forehead . |
| 30 | The eldest was to receive half of them , his younger brother a third and the youngest member of the family a ninth . |