Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [adj] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Up to now the US airwaves have been free , but there are moves to license any new frequencies that become available to the highest bidder — some argue that television should go entirely by cable to free capacity for radio communications : the US Federal Communications Commission is supporting a bill in Congress to free 200MHz of government-controlled radio frequencies for commercial use , in part through auctions ; the National Association of Broadcasters said it would support the bill if broadcast frequencies were exempt from the auctions ; McCaw Cellular Communications Inc is also a supporter of the bill . |
| 2 | Throat and neck sensitive to the slightest touch . |
| 3 | People in departments dominated by the professions will need to be aware of developments within the professional field and keep up-to-date with the latest techniques or equipment . |
| 4 | Although kings made sporadic efforts to reform , to Purge and reorganize , again ultimately only the nineteenth century brought the abundance which permitted a system to organize the State and curb some of the worst excesses . |
| 5 | The seismic teams are faced with some challenges in gathering data , as the concessions are in the Saharan sand sea and contain some of the largest dunes in the world . |
| 6 | They take in over 16,000 animals a year , ‘ nothing is ever turned away ’ , and have one of the highest re-homing rates in the country . |
| 7 | From seeing one of the newest metro systems in the world , he wondered if he could fix it to go home via Budapest and see one of the oldest . |
| 8 | The Open University publications , intended for students without regular access to any one library ( the Open University library is geographically far from most of its students ) offer a variety of different guides to the literature , including literature case studies , guides to literature searching , techniques of information handling etc , and represent some of the best and ideal practice in this area . |
| 9 | Contemporary Egyptian rugs are produced in and around Cairo , and represent some of the best quality items , in both wool and silk , currently being produced anywhere in the world . |