Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [num] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I scored one of the best goals of my career there in a Bass Irish Cup semi-final against Linfield . |
| 2 | THIS is a major game for Mick Skinner , whom I consider one of the strongest and bravest guys I have ever played alongside . |
| 3 | I spent six of the happiest years of my life at a boarding school where the regime was spartan . |
| 4 | But also on the course , and I believe one of the earliest , was a pilot scheme for Medical Officers to take flying training . |
| 5 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 6 | Er I think one of the greatest er causes of s absenteeism , it was n't so much ill health er not on the part of the pupil , I think it was more er if something was wrong within th family , particularly if you was an elder daughter or an elder boy , you see and erm , if your mother was ill or or confined you see , you were probably kept at home er for those sort of reasons to either look after the the younger children at home or to help to look after home . |
| 7 | Well I I think one of the greatest deterrents that one can have is the copper on the beat . |
| 8 | She says I think one of the worst or strangest is errif which is a two year old canary — why anyone would want to have a word for that I do n't know . |
| 9 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 10 | I think one of the biggest problems at the moment , Bill , is the hard sell on extended warranties and on secondhand cars . |
| 11 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 12 | I have one of the best jobs I could possibly hope for — a Landscape Architect involved in establishing wild-life habitats , public open spaces , playgrounds , planting areas and gardens , and in planning and urban design . |
| 13 | BELVILLE : I think I have one of the finest woman in England . |
| 14 | A ten million pound research centre which represents one of the largest investments in Europe by a Japanese company has been officially opened by the President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine . |
| 15 | The volume of factored turnover rose 10% to £7.52bn in the first six months after an increase of just 2.5% in the whole of 1991 , according to the Association of British Factors and Discounters ( ABFD ) , which represents 11 of the largest factoring companies . |
| 16 | An example of the futility of pouring money uncontrolledly into a service is given by the United States , which has one of the highest rates of infection with the sexually transmitted diseases , one of the highest rates of resistance among its gonococci , and one of the highest , if not the highest , budgets for research and education into these diseases in the world . |
| 17 | This lovely country house lies well secluded off the road between Forres and Elgin in the magnificent countryside of Morayshire ( which has one of the highest sunshine levels in the UK ) . |
| 18 | In particular , they would also like to hear about any rags-to-riches stories in an area which has one of the highest concentrations of Asians in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | A TOWN which has one of the highest unemployment levels in Wales is about to lose a vital unit which handles income support claims . |
| 20 | Deaths per 10 000 vehicles fell from 3.0 to 2.1 in 1990 and 1.9 in 1991 ( <50% of Smeed 's prediction ) ; the mortality is now well below that in Britain ( 2.3 in 1989 ) , which has one of the lowest rates in Europe . |
| 21 | The South Coast Air Quality Management District ( AQMD ) , a powerful independent regulatory body in the US State of California , has devised what it describes as a " revolutionary programme " for reducing air pollution in the Los Angeles area , which has one of the lowest air qualities in the industrialized world . |
| 22 | Nature conservation action stands to become seriously weakened in all three countries , but especially in Scotland , which has one of the worst records of any westernised country in nature conservation . |
| 23 | Ten lucky winners will receive a Triton T70 shower which incorporates three of the latest features : a temperature stabiliser , an anti-scald device , and a visual temperature display . |
| 24 | The Amoco Corporation , owner of the Amoco Cadiz tanker which caused one of the worst oil spills in history when it ran aground off the French coast in 1978 , has agreed to make a further payment relating to the accident . |
| 25 | The Bosnians were taken to the old terminal , on a little used part of the airport , and then transferred by coach to centres in Surrey , West London and a new centre in Dewsbury , Yorkshire , which took 60 from the latest flight . |
| 26 | The Sutton Hoo lyre was deposited with many other possessions lying around the burial chamber in a ship , which remains one of the best examples of contemporary marine engineering . |
| 27 | The geographers were , however , never far from his thoughts , and in 1893 he produced his admirable Selections from Strabo , still the most sympathetic introduction to Strabo , to be followed in 1897 by A History of Ancient Geography , which remains one of the best , if not the best , handbook on both ancient geography and geographical writers , Greek and Latin , down to the end of the western Empire . |
| 28 | The Galerie Hopkins–Thomas , which had one of the best selections , including an early Van Gogh of a Blacksmith 's Apprentice at a rather hefty £100,000 , a Gustave Moreau watercolour , I'Ibis Rose , at an even heftier £600,000 , and a Schiele portrait of a woman at £200,000 . |
| 29 | Each year , when shooting , stalking and fishing guests departed , estate employees were called to the great house to work in the armoury , which had one of the finest collections of antique weapons in Scotland : claymores , dirks , shields , spears and guns . |
| 30 | All in all , a not untypical day in Catterick , Which houses one of the largest garrisons in the Army , composed of a diverse range of units and all catered for by No 4 Region . |