Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally it has been recognized that the largest concentrations of first-class villas often clustered around the small towns in preference to major towns or cities . |
| 2 | The goals scored over four weeks are totalled and the highest number of goals wins a prize of £50 . |
| 3 | Less than 25 have been completed and the latest plan aims to finish only 26 projects during the next two years . |
| 4 | Basically it means that the nervous system which passes through the wrist in the carpal tunnel has been stressed and the best cure is rest , or in the case of trigger finger , an injection or even an operation . |
| 5 | Their reasoning — that ‘ when all safeguards are respected and the best interests of the patient are taken into account , it is certainly not murder ’ — parallels the apparent logic behind the Soviet cleansing of antisocialist elements , the Indian practice of murder/suicide of widows , and the infanticide that I observed among the Tsamai in south-west Ethiopia . |
| 6 | It has also been argued that the highest diversity is found in elevated sites most protected from fluvial erosion . |
| 7 | It has been argued that the best predictor of behaviour is not the possession of knowledge per se but behavioural intentions which are themselves predicted by attitudes and the subjective norm for the acceptability of the behaviour in question . |
| 8 | It has been shown that the best time of year for such exams would be in March or April when temperatures are lower . |
| 9 | However , it might be supposed that the poorest conditions of all for producing plural continuations ( mixed conditions , especially in the ‘ with ’ condition ) would show the highest proportion of use of both . |
| 10 | It should never be forgotten that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line . |
| 11 | It could be argued that the best way of dealing with attempted suicide would be to prevent its occurrence in the first place ; but this is not an easy task , and one that often extends beyond the reach of the clinician . |
| 12 | It may be thought that the highest-scoring universities in this list attract a higher than average proportion of indigenous students with local area research interests , but examination of the names of thesis authors from Strathclyde and Dundee universities , and confirmatory personal communications with the relevant departments , suggest that many of their students are not of local origin , but have come to the universities from overseas . |
| 13 | If there is a consensus that the Constitution is the fundamental law , for example , he might argue that this consensus provides an abstract convention whose implicit extension includes the proposition that statutes must be enforced because the best interpretation of the Constitution requires this , even though many lawyers deny it . |
| 14 | It must therefore be recognised that the greatest protagonist of deregulation are largely acting out of self-interest , and that they themselves demonstrate remarkable inconsistency and reversals in their arguments — depending on which area of that self interest they may be pursuing at any particular moment . |
| 15 | It should be noted that the largest threat to totalizing control of schools in Ireland has so far come from the integrated schooling movement . |
| 16 | When it is realized that of the fifteen largest corporations in the world in 1978 , three were car manufacturers , eight were oil companies , and one was in chemicals , it can be appreciated that the largest corporations within the most concentrated sections of international capital formation are committing more than their share of law violations . |
| 17 | How could Christendom be represented when the weightiest part of the most historic of Churches refused to have anything to do with the meeting ? |
| 18 | It seems irresponsible and morally indefensible to intervene in clients ' lives if you are uncertain about what can be achieved and the best methods of doing so . |
| 19 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 20 | I seem to remember being told that the latest policy is to turn water cannon on the nurses ; that does not strike me as the most helpful approach . |
| 21 | Again it 's claimed that the smallest unit — the 300 — can be used on fishtanks . |
| 22 | For the beginner , however , this negative pitch angle is exactly what is not required and it is recommended that the lowest pitch that the blades can reach should be +1° . |
| 23 | Although it is seen that the greatest benefits are likely to be gained in this design situation by taking a design controlling attitude ( high level approach ) to CAD implementation , there are very few companies where this has been attempted , let alone achieved . |
| 24 | ‘ But cereal growers adopting the integrated control approach must appreciate that input costs are increased and a high degree of management is needed if the best results are to be achieved , ’ he adds . |
| 25 | Since the field of view must be known before the exposure can reasonably be calculated this procedure is called before the best exposure is known . |
| 26 | The guide-books say little : Samuel Wallis visited it and named it Boscawen Island , perhaps after the great admiral of Finisterre ; the best vanilla in the Pacific is grown there ; and it is rumoured that the finest kavo — that faintly narcotic drink prepared from the powdered root of a local pepper plant , and an important part of rituals and celebrations in the South Pacific — is Tafahi kava , and that it renders all Tafahians perpetually slightly dopey . |
| 27 | It does not penetrate the primary school although it is acknowledged that the earliest thoughts — mainly in the form of fantasy — about one 's choice of life-work do formulate themselves when children are between 8 and 12 years of age . |
| 28 | It is estimated that the largest proportion of searches takes place following the consent of the occupier . |
| 29 | It is suggested that the best solution is to combine both methods . |
| 30 | Since 1983 it has been established that the strongest risk factor for the development of malignant melanoma is the presence of a large number of benign naevi . |