Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] worst " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy clutch and cumbersome gear change remain the worst feature . |
| 2 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 3 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 4 | DALLAS lawyer Bryan Garner has started a contest to find the worst examples of legal writing in Texas . |
| 5 | Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are using biotechnology to produce a protein in large quantities which can ‘ filter ’ the blood of AIDS patients and remove the agent causing the worst symptoms . |
| 6 | Last year the Yorkshire Water Authority tentatively began the first stage of a £150 million programme to eliminate the worst coloured waters from such towns as Huddersfield , Halifax , Bradford and Sheffield . |
| 7 | The machine tool industry meets the worst of the problem , as it is at the end of the manufacturing cycle and can not respond quickly either in recession or in a boom , because of the long lead-times involved in production and delivery . |
| 8 | At worst , they are a facade hiding the worst excesses of management . |
| 9 | It has been common practice to anticipate the worst load conditions in setting the count required to generate the RETARD signal . |
| 10 | Its activities led to the British Film Weeks of 1924 , which involved screening a programme of British pictures , accompanied by the sort of ballyhoo which left the public , according to critic Paul Rotha , ‘ hypnotized into readiness to applaud the worst picture in the world because it was British . ’ |
| 11 | It is well recognised that patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus represent the worst end of the reflux spectrum with the most severe forms of lower oesophageal sphincter and pump failure and consequently greater degrees of acid exposure . |
| 12 | The public sector has the worst record for absenteeism through sickness . |
| 13 | Winter was closing in fast over Europe and , as always at that time of year , he was travelling south to avoid the worst of the weather . |
| 14 | The annual award is normally given to a boss providing the worst pay and conditions but because of unemployment no one is making nominations . |
| 15 | The exchange represented the worst of both sides — woolly-minded thinking on the one hand and a blinkered response reducing morality to the level of materialism on the other . |
| 16 | A quick cup of tea with Ewen and then on to the Loganair Twin Otter which slithered up the slushy runway and took the over-sea route to avoid the worst weather en route to Barra stopping at Benbecula . |
| 17 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 18 | There is something , too , which Egyptians share with people everywhere : eagerness to believe the worst , for the thrill of a good yarn . |
| 19 | The National Rivers Authority is to hold urgent meetings with council officials after torrential rain brought the worst flooding in thirty years to the Cherwell Valley . |
| 20 | In some ways , by seeming to justify the adaptation of stageplays and musical comedies to the screen , sound perpetuated the worst aspects of British film production . |
| 21 | This move follows the worst season in the county 's history which culminated in a call from the captain , Phil Carrick , for the introduction of non-Yorkshiremen into the team . |
| 22 | I know you 're going , my heart fears the worst … |
| 23 | She stuffed her handkerchief into her mouth ; it was large enough to cover her nose and for the faint scent of lavender-water to obliterate the worst of the putrefaction . |
| 24 | Businessman John Watts , 52 , said it was a miracle any of the 340 passengers and crew survived the worst air disaster in Portugal for 20 years . |
| 25 | May Day saw the worst violence in the streets of Moscow since the attempted coup of August 1991 , as neo-communist demonstrators clashed with riot police . |
| 26 | Thames Water had the worst record for pesticides , as well as the biggest problem with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ) , which are potentially carcinogenic . |
| 27 | Her grandfather Christopher Grenside was last night fearing the worst . |
| 28 | THE GOVERNMENT last week announced the worst unemployment figures for four years . |
| 29 | The Drinking Water Inspectorate has published figures showing that the Thames Water area has the worst water quality in the country . |
| 30 | Q. Do the recent experiences of Courtaulds Engineering suggest the worst of the recession is over ? |