Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college had been founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck as a ‘ Mechanics ' Institute ’ , enshrining those virtues of self-improvement and industry which corresponded with the best qualities in the character of William Joyce . |
| 2 | To cover her confusion she enquired after the latest entertaining village gossip from Lucy , who was prone to whiling away hours at the ante-natal clinic in deep conversation with fellow village wives . |
| 3 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
| 4 | Martha was not the only child who lived in the highest settlement , but she was the only one who was ordered to school each day . |
| 5 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 6 | Instead , he proposed a package which provided for the highest degree of democratization permitted under the Basic Law , the colony 's Constitution which had been approved by China in 1990 . |
| 7 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 8 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 9 | Do yourself and the community a favour by taking the rusty iron and junk you find to the nearest litter bin . |
| 10 | Everyone will be given a start and finish time and a small prize will go to the person who finishes in the fastest time . |
| 11 | At least , that 's the feeling I get at the best of my poetry-reading moments . |
| 12 | Bridge , on the other hand , was possessed of an urbanity of manner which proved of the greatest importance , especially in the firm 's dealings with George III and other members of the royal family . |
| 13 | The watch is British made except for the movement which comes from the best Swiss supplier . |
| 14 | Murphy knocked in a break of 136 and looked to be on target for the £1000 prize which goes to the highest break in the Blackpool stage of the tournament . |
| 15 | Week by week we read of the latest opinion polls on this or that . |
| 16 | The Geneva meeting used a clinical approach to health policy development which focuses on individual patients and their available treatment options , whereas the Copenhagen meeting used a public health approach which strives for the best mix of curative and preventive health services , given the existing resources , to maximise the health status of a population . |
| 17 | I am arguing against it because on the one hand it brings about environmental improvements in the town centre which according to the latest published government information which as as Mr has has himself said , i is stricter th th than we had published previously . |
| 18 | So if you 're going to employ an assassin and you 're a mean skinflint you pick on the lowest of the low to do your dirty work . |
| 19 | He dropped what luggage he had into the nearest garbage receptacle and then , ignoring the ticket windows completely , headed over toward the phones . |
| 20 | Only by a stupendous act of imagination , only by actually putting myself in his skin in that room at that time can I even begin to attempt any sort of answer which moves by the smallest degree away from the natural responses of disgust and revulsion which all of us instinctively wish to express . |
| 21 | Most of the 1,500 crowd who came for the best objects on the last two days of the sale meanwhile , were just tourists , which made taking bids extremely difficult and fatiguing , Tajan said . |
| 22 | Hugh did n't wake as she lay down on top of the sheet beside him and before dawn she fell into the heaviest sleep she had enjoyed that holiday . |
| 23 | But locals are incensed at the suggestion they live in the poorest served community in England . |
| 24 | Apparently he was quite charming , but as the basis of his charm seemed to rest upon the un-startling stratagem of addressing every female he encountered by the fullest possible version of her name ( so that every Julie became a Juliana , every Dot extended to a Dorothea , all Marys became Mariana , Sues Susanna , etc . |
| 25 | This is certainly a problem which mitigates against the widest acceptance of the language , though the number of people resisting its use today is probably very small , composed of the older and the less well educated . |
| 26 | A thousand years ago , humans used a similar but much cruder system which relied on the strongest part of the pattern , a band of polarised light arcing the sky . |
| 27 | My colleagues and I actually take no pleasure in agreeing to a rent increase which results in the highest public sector rates among our neighbouring districts er it is some eighteen percent higher than the average of eight local councils . |
| 28 | Suddenly in the spotlight , Arab-Americans are torn between the urge to stress their loyalty and the alarm they feel about the latest turn in Middle East events . |
| 29 | With a wicked wink he ducked into the nearest cubicle , safely out of reach . |
| 30 | How can you achieve the finance you need at the cheapest cost ? |