Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj -est] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The area under the peak corresponding to the actin cable is about 5 times that for the largest of the peaks corresponding to cortical actin elsewhere . |
| 2 | I could imagine my aunt as a young girl asking for the latest of the books for birthday or Christmas until she had them all . |
| 3 | Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis . |
| 4 | Balor gave a last bubbling cry and a sudden ripple of triumph went through the Trees as the farthest of the Oaks pulled free an arm and held it aloft , a bloody stump , a torn-off gobbet of flesh . |
| 5 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 6 | Its distance is about 15000 light-years , so that it is one of the closest of the globulars . |
| 7 | Some of the best of the comrades had been horrified by the indiscretion of Lenin in resorting to the aid of the Germans and making the trip through an enemy country . |
| 8 | Native of the largest of the continents , five letters . |
| 9 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 10 | Both were given positions near the centre of power , unlike their other brothers and sisters , who were installed in basically honorific positions , with the partial exception of the eldest of the siblings , Marin . |
| 11 | Thus , the abolition of the new-town development corporations in England in the late 1980s has strong implications for the mobility of the poorest in the cities : they will not find a great deal — if any — of non-owner-occupied housing beyond the conurbations . |
| 12 | The majority of the fry are eaten but I think that this is a case of survival of the fittest in the confines of a community tank . |
| 13 | Although the relief work should prevent the recurrence of the worst of the floods , there can be no absolute guarantee . |
| 14 | Then she ran her fingers through the long strands of her hair , getting rid of the worst of the tangles and flicking it back from her face . |
| 15 | Directly between Beta and Gamma lies the famous Ring Nebula ( M57 ) , one of the brightest of the planetaries . |
| 16 | And , Miss Rene ’ — she paused here and put her hand out towards the eldest of the sisters — ‘ you gave me my first book , a book of poems . |
| 17 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 18 | This was to be Boomer 's last appearance in the Ryder Cup , although he was still quite clearly a good enough player to hold his own against the best of the Americans . |
| 19 | It was they , with the largest of the teachers ' unions , the NUT , who were largely responsible for the establishment of the Schools Council , to advise and experiment in respect of curricular content . |
| 20 | It is thus , roughly speaking , contemporary with the earliest of the Gospels , if , indeed , it does not pre-date all four . |
| 21 | We needed to take with us clothes that were comfortable for travelling in , were easy to care for and were able to cope with the worst of the conditions . |
| 22 | In addition , he was engaged in a fierce dispute over the advowson of one of his manors — Shere in Surrey — with the youngest of the brothers , Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke and bishop-elect of Winchester [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 24 | A further refinement was that the entrance to the town 's harbour was under the furthest-out of the bridges , so that entry and exit thereto could be denied at any time by the castle 's occupants , with a great boom to be lowered . |
| 25 | The level should be about 5 rum above the highest of the blocks . |
| 26 | I knew my former comrades would be long gone from the latest of the encampments before the malais ever got near them . |
| 27 | I believe that the maintained grammar school offers the best hope at present of making accessible to a larger population than ever before the best of the qualities and habits of which it somewhat accidentally finds itself the custodian : respect for learning , the encouragement of deep and strenuous thought , a regard for style , and the tacit assumption of contracts of mutual responsibility between individuals and between an individual and his society . |
| 28 | Try to finish tidying borders before the worst of the frosts set in . |
| 29 | The first is that three nuns from the same order work in the largest of the villages , Kormakiti , and so we provide a useful link . |
| 30 | She could do nothing about the cold or the slick damp that covered the walls , but she had gathered as much straw as she could and had made a bed in the driest of the cells . |