Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adj] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oriental restaurants offer some of the widest variety of healthy , low-fat , low-caloried food to the adventurous eater . |
| 2 | A Country Diary : EGGLESTON BURN , Teesdale : Small burns that feed the main rivers of the Pennine Dales create some of the wildest features of the landscape . |
| 3 | Those thirty years span some of the sharpest changes of trend in modern history , from persistent deflation , for instance , to persistent inflation , or from unemployment averaging 10 per cent to unemployment averaging 2 per cent , as well as a rise of at least one-third in national income per head . |
| 4 | The Metropolitan 's 33,000 textiles constitute one of the largest and most varied collections in the world . |
| 5 | In summer , however , when the sun shines constantly , Arctic and Antarctic waters provide some of the richest feeding grounds of the oceans ; fewer species than in the tropics , but often with a far greater biomass . |
| 6 | Their slopes grow some of the finest tea in the world . |
| 7 | Termites construct some of the greatest of all insect buildings . |
| 8 | Britain 's working mums have one of the worst deals in Europe . |
| 9 | Fortunately , our railways remain one of the safest means of transport and I am sure that the whole House welcomes the fact that the number of significant accidents on the railways is now the lowest on record . |
| 10 | Both approaches remedy some of the worst features of labelling , and therefore can be welcomed as advances in practice . |
| 11 | No wonder national reports indicate many of the poorest sections are going into debt to pay for food and clothing . |
| 12 | The dowry system has sometimes been considered as an effect of the sexual division of labour where , although women do some of the heaviest work ( servicing labour and producing it ) , these roles are considered less important than those of men . |
| 13 | Brachiopods have one of the longest histories and one of the best fossil records of any invertebrate . |
| 14 | On the whole they are not , but the seasonal productivity of a few areas is very high , and subpolar seas include some of the richest patches of ocean known anywhere in the world . |
| 15 | Stinging eyes , headaches , heart attacks and respiratory diseases are common ; Southern Californians have one of the highest premature death-rates in the US . |
| 16 | Easy calving is a characteristic of the breed , in that the cows have one of the largest ratios of pelvic area to bodyweight ; they give almost too much milk for single suckling and are excellent mothers . |