Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , very slowly , fearful of making the slightest movement that might start the surface on an avalanche course and himself down the incline , he stretched out his arm towards Sheila . |
| 2 | Gazza himself , delighted with winning the best goal of the season at the halfway mark of the Italian season , promises more of the same in the return against Roma . |
| 3 | Further north is Le Mans , famous for having the finest chevet in France ( 429 ) . |
| 4 | This is a fine listed Georgian building standing in half an acre of grounds with a stream — once famous for driving the greatest concentration of water mills in Great Britain . |
| 5 | From then on , you 'll be sure of making the best use of electricity on the cheap night rate . |
| 6 | We are constantly watching the property market and are alert to every factor which affects it , so you can be confident of getting the soundest marketing advice available . |
| 7 | Therefore , we 're left with a certain pot and we must manage that the best way possible in providing the best education , not only for children in village schools , but in towns and every of large or medium size throughout this county . |
| 8 | It is not clear who is responsible for stoking the latest tension . |
| 9 | Quite amazingly I hear that the selectors are undecided about taking the best wicket keeper Jack Russell — and could give Yorkshire 's Richard Blakey a first major tour on the grounds that there will be eight one-day international games . |
| 10 | And yet , for this crucial deciding match , they stopped short of picking the best XI for the circumstances . |
| 11 | ‘ The political fallout , while all very interesting to politicians , must be secondary to getting the best representation for the people of Colchester . ’ |
| 12 | The Arsenal pair might just be capable of staging the best road show since Hope and Crosby — but Ipswich had very few laughs at Highbury . |
| 13 | Questions were asked after each problem , and at the completion of the task , to obtain the following objective information : 1 ) the ease of use of each program , 2 ) the insight gained from using each technique , 3 ) the aid given by each technique in attaining a solution , 4 ) the user preference , and dislike , for the techniques , 5 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving insight , 6 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving the best design , and 7 ) the subject 's engineering and computing background , and knowledge of the polar second moment of area ; this being the sectional properties of a component that allows the shearing stresses to be deduced from the applied torque . |
| 14 | To a layman , the word ‘ bureaucracy ’ has unpleasant associations ; however , the German writer , Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) who is the organisational theorist most closely associated with the analysis of bureaucracy , was inclined to regard bureaucracy as the ideal form of organisation , which is ‘ from a purely technical point of view , capable of attaining the highest degree of efficiency and is in this sense formally the most rational means of carrying out imperative control over human beings . ’ |
| 15 | One finds direct contradictions such as Lewis 's ( 1931 ) observation that an 8 km/h ( 5 mile/h ) current off Hurst Castle Spit was ineffective in moving the lightest shell debris except when combined with wave action and Russell and Macmillan 's ( 1952 ) belief that shingle has been scoured to a depth of nearly 60 m ( 200 ft ) by this same current . |
| 16 | And we are still successful in having the biggest market share of any Western European producer in his own national market . ’ |
| 17 | Then I looked at him and he looked quickly away , James who was incapable of telling the simplest lie without making a hash of it . |
| 18 | Britain and America are close to agreeing the best way of protecting relief supplies to Bosnia , Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said yesterday . |
| 19 | Terrified of making the slightest slip — Kinnock and the rest played safe — or what they thought was safe . |