Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally I approached Bates in the strictest confidence , but all too quickly I learned that he is just a gin-sodden loud-mouth . |
| 2 | In chapters 4 and 5 I expose defects in the crudest form of foundationalism , and in chapters 6 and 7 I argue that we have a more general reason to avoid any sort of foundationalism , a reason derived from considerations in the theory of meaning . |
| 3 | We will continue our Estate Action and Housing Action Trust programmes which concentrate resources on the worst council estates . |
| 4 | Attempts to make this cost reflection more sophisticated at a later date were , however , jeopardised by internal BEA politics , which reduced initiatives to the lowest common denominator acceptable to the Area Boards . |
| 5 | Liverpool Children 's Holiday Organisation , which takes children from the poorest families on Merseyside for breaks in the countryside , needs £30,000 to avoid making cuts next year . |
| 6 | Erm , but take this team , there was somebody feeding information into the slowest person , |
| 7 | The presentations , which included showings of the latest Man with the Guinness TV and cinema ad campaign , came as the ideas generated by employees at the Take Home Trade conference began to bear fruit . |
| 8 | The scheme generated a significant number of additional bus trips which gave rise to the highest proportion of elderly bus passenger casualties of all Scottish local authorities . |
| 9 | Last week Lord Skelmersdale told the Lords that ‘ the government 's decision is that the time has come to implement the 1975 Act … . it is the large number of reservoirs for which no one appears to take responsibility which gives rise to the greatest concern , he added . |
| 10 | As a result local authorities have been requested to take into consideration the following Code of Practice : ‘ Control of Smells from the Animal Waste Processing Industry ’ when contemplating any action they might take in order to reduce odour nuisance , and to be aware of the Reports of the Working Party on the Suppression of Odours from Offensive and Selected Other Trades , which gives guidance on the best practicable means for dealing with odours . |
| 11 | Now dry casein is a hard , brittle substance which transmits loads in the best style of Mr Hooke . |
| 12 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 13 | Rose , who has responsibility for the largest mortgage book in the South East of England , said she was delighted . |
| 14 | As is often the case in matters of corporate governance , the lead is likely to be taken by the chairmen of companies in which standards of governance are already high , rather than by those who head companies with the greatest scope for strengthening their public accountability . |
| 15 | Since when do you spend money on the best sugar ? |
| 16 | you know survival of the fittest would be really like , you 've got to s you know we 'd be so unpopular . |
| 17 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 18 | My purpose here is to show what is available , so that you have access to the widest possible variety of marks when drawing . |
| 19 | IF we do go ahead with the study , we get hold of the latest available plans which are then |
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| 21 | Erm , and the other one is the registration and inspection , where in the current year we have access to the best part of sixty five thousand pounds from to meet registration inspection , and you 'll see in the additions list , that , that there is er , a bid in there for the ongoing costs of that . |
| 22 | This consists of a fitted and lined coffin , conveyance for the dead person , or delivery of a coffin ( at least ten running miles allowed ) , laying out of the person , which normally includes embalming , use of the chapel of rest , provision of a hearse , and one following car to the nearest local cemetery or crematorium , and necessary conductors and bearers . |
| 23 | They included members of the richest families in the country , relatives of two former presidents , former presidents of the bank and the country 's electricity authority , and a former leading advisor to President Alfredo Cristiani . |
| 24 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 25 | ‘ Nicky honed her fighting skills in the toughest business in the world , modelling in Paris and New York , and she 's not ready to move on yet . ’ |
| 26 | As they rode inland from Trebizond , hunting-whips at the ready against the expected dog-packs , they viewed mohair goats on hillsides of dwarf oak , dull yellow vines , lush apple orchards ; they heard grasshoppers whose ringing note seemed sharper and more insistent than that of their British cousins ; and they witnessed sunsets of the rarest purple and rose . |
| 27 | It propelled capitalism up the longest and steepest economic incline in history , but at a cost . |
| 28 | He was at least partly associated with the decision to introduce ‘ hard labour ’ into prisons , but far from providing regular , steady discipline and useful work it became drudgery of the hardest and most servile kind , a hated example of the additional pains of imprisonment . |
| 29 | The new WBC champion said he ranked Bowe among the best heavyweight fighters today , but was ‘ confident ’ he would beat him if the two met . |
| 30 | It condemned racialism in the strongest language . |