Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the nicest and most original features of the game is that while Doodle can take out the enemy by simply throwing his pencils , he can also use them to draw the bonuses or weapons he needs . |
| 2 | Dress underwrites not only class differences but national and racial ones also , and Perkins has harsh words for those who adopt the fashion of other countries : ‘ this one sinne is so common among us , that it hath branded our English people with the blacke mark of the vainest and most newfangled people under heaven ’ ( p. 211 ) . |
| 3 | They affect the poorest and most vulnerable families in the land . |
| 4 | The aggregate membership of 704,350 was 8 per cent of the population , but few of these were recruited from the poorest and most vulnerable class of rural labourers . |
| 5 | The Treasury has responsibility for the health of the economy ; the Social Services Department has responsibility for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country . |
| 6 | On certain days , it was said , a tramcar of unusual design was seen circulating slowly along the lines which passed through the poorest and most deprived slums in the city . |
| 7 | Among the poorest and most deprived groups are the homeless , refugees , people without jobs , and elderly people living in social isolation . |
| 8 | Helped by a battery of mutualistic protozoa , bacteria and fungi , they have mastered the nutritional and energetic problems of surviving in some of the poorest and most indigestible foodstuffs , from dead logs to soil humus . |
| 9 | Soviet influence , moreover , was overwhelmingly concentrated among the poorest and least important countries in terms of population and GNP , whose support was often more of a liability than an asset ; the world 's major military and industrial powers , by contrast , were all allied or aligned with the United States . |
| 10 | Persia is seen as the spiritual , if not actual , home of rug-making and its name has become synonymous with the finest and most outstanding achievements in oriental textile art . |
| 11 | It 's one of the finest and most varied collection of plants on earth . |
| 12 | The company , founded by Ted Hood , has perfected the concept of efficient furling and reefing systems linked to the finest and most aesthetic masts and rigs in the world . |
| 13 | If you can procur [ sic ] me any porters for this , the finest and most perfect work I have yet attempted , you will be doing me a real kindness ; you are aware that neither pains or expense will be spared to render it complete . ’ |
| 14 | The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English is undoubtedly the finest and most comprehensive reference book available to help the advanced learner to meet this challenge and learn to use natural , colloquial English with confidence . |
| 15 | As well as being one of the finest and most comprehensive sets of autochromes in existence , these charming images also offers a dimension which few other travel photographs of the period can offer . |
| 16 | As well as being one of the finest and most comprehensive sets of autochromes in existence , these charming images also offer a dimension which few other travel photographs of the period can offer . |
| 17 | In contrast , the finest and most prestigious village rugs should be judged by the same standards as workshop items . |
| 18 | Blaenavon is probably one of the finest and most complete ironworks of the Industrial Revolution to survive in Europe . |
| 19 | Outside the castle gates visitors will find one of the finest and most complete circuits of town walls anywhere in Europe — over three quarters of a mile in length with 22 towers and three original gateways . |
| 20 | Chapter House contains one of the finest and most realistic leaf carvings in the world and the choir screen is described as the loveliest in England . |
| 21 | — the finest and most exciting town in the country ? |
| 22 | He saw the house as it had once been , in his childhood — still , ordered , each thing in it the finest and most beautiful example of its kind . |
| 23 | Is it desirable that the finest and most sensitive part of a woman — that which God gave her , should on the one hand be wounded with such a wound as no proud and gentle nature ever recovers from , or else should on the other hand be deadened so that the woman becomes only half herself , and this is what the tyranny of the medical profession has accomplished . |
| 24 | On June 14 , 1989 , the largest and most expensive US space booster , the Titan-4 , was launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , successfully deploying what was thought to be a secret military satellite capable of providing early warning of nuclear attack . |
| 25 | America 's Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , to be built in Texas , will be the largest and most expensive machine in the world . |
| 26 | From here , the grim Hazar Ustan or Thousand Pillared Palace , Tughluk ruled the largest and most powerful empire India had known since the time of Ashoka , one and a half millennia previously . |
| 27 | It was completed in 1819 at what was then the staggering cost of £163,457 and was the largest and most imposing building in the town . |
| 28 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
| 29 | That is why , from the very beginning , the Sevso saga , one of the largest and most far-reaching art scandals ever , has been treated as a top secret issue in Yugoslavia . |
| 30 | Treasury Economic Secretary Tony Nelson , opening a debate on Lord Justice Bingham 's report on the BCCI collapse , said the disaster was ‘ the largest and most wide-ranging fraud in the history of banking ’ . |