Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as being one of the rarest breeds in the world , there are those who 've labelled them as one of the ugliest . |
| 2 | An expedition , I should say , which I will undertake alone , in the comfort of Mr Farraday 's Ford ; an expedition which , as I foresee it , will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country , and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days . |
| 3 | This month we guide you through some of the best 486-based PCs we 've reviewed and help you decide which one is best for you . |
| 4 | At least one guidebook giving precise route descriptions has been written about each of the walks and without exception they 'll take you through some of the loveliest countryside we have . |
| 5 | Most of the solar system seems intent to hurl you into 1992 with the greatest éan . |
| 6 | The route will also take you to some of the finest areas of heathland in the country and will include a tea stop at Clumber Park Tea Rooms . |
| 7 | I took my clothes off and put them into one of the largest warships . |
| 8 | Some historians have argued that , once the Indians had become part of the Christian community , their cause was championed by the church who protected them from some of the worst excesses of colonial power ( Poblete 1970 ) . |
| 9 | Such simple lovers are not so simple and their love can lead them to one of the profoundest insights of religion , for such love requires an abandonment of selfishness and egotism , and these people are far advanced on the spiritual roads . |
| 10 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 11 | Susan Einzig regarded him as one of the brightest jewels in a smart set . |
| 12 | This Northern tour teams him with some of the finest musicians to be heard outside London — Nikki Iles ( Piano ) , Les Chisnall ( Piano ) Caroline Broaden ( Drums ) and Pete Glennon ( Bass ) . |
| 13 | Last season he was trained by Oliver Sherwood , who turned him into one of the best novice hurdlers and now Henrietta Knight will be attempting to do the same over fences . |
| 14 | His scalp is valued above all others in Scotland , with Labour desperate to regain the seat they lost to him in 1983 in the biggest pro-Tory swing of the campaign . |
| 15 | Where the old badger is coming from Bill Morrison 's motto in life is ‘ never volunteer , never refuse ’ , a policy which has landed him in some of the hottest seats in the profession , as he tells Julia Irvine |
| 16 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 17 | The revolutionary , apparently irregular and discordant sprung rhythm in which it was written , the vivid , kinetic , but often difficult diction , the perception of the universality of suffering : all mark it as one of the greatest and most experimental of nineteenth-century poems . |
| 18 | I regarded it as one of the safest areas of Zululand . ’ |
| 19 | Villa Banfi is an American firm which bought an abandoned estate in an area famous for its wine production , and through massive investment developed it into one of the largest single enterprises of its kind in Europe . |
| 20 | It 's a well-designed demo , which almost leaves the screen empty , filling it with some of the best routines around . |
| 21 | Yew provides us with some of the best examples , and anybody interested in the traditional construction techniques might like to visit the Chair Museum in High Wycombe . |
| 22 | The huge conglomerates that assemble on such occasions provide us with some of the greatest spectacles in the animal world . |
| 23 | Curiously , this futuristic notion returns us to one of the earliest electronic book models which we described in the original report . |