Example sentences of "[noun pl] the greatest [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is certain is that for countless ages the greatest mountain range on earth will continue to form an impenetrable barrier to the terrestrial animals that live north and south of it . |
| 2 | WHY : Bad living conditions and lack of space are facts of British prison life ; but for many prisoners the greatest hardship is isolation . |
| 3 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 4 | Pericles , no less than Kleon , was proof that knowledge , even or especially routine knowledge , is power , and it is that which makes Pericles the greatest demagogue of them all . |
| 5 | A pointed feminist saying about the president goes : ‘ George Bush is every woman 's first husband ’ , an apt summary of Francis Fukuyama 's concern that in liberal democracies the greatest threat is boredom . |
| 6 | In general terms when valuing majority holdings the greatest influence is likely to be the earning capacity of the company with the underlying assets being an added influence if they differ materially from a valuation based on earnings . |