Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adj] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa Martin of Ards and Lorna Cardwell of Bangor produced one of the best races ever seen at the Ulster Age group swimming championships last night . |
| 2 | An art connoisseur , Gaskell owned one of the finest collections of paintings in the north of England , including works by J. M. W. Turner and John Constable [ qq.v . ] . |
| 3 | The village of Estreito has one of the best restaurants in the island for espetada ( meat on a skewer ) — the menu and seating are simple , but the meat is very good . |
| 4 | The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau provided one of the earliest examinations of this question . |
| 5 | The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents . |
| 6 | Last spring El Chichón in Mexico produced one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the century . |
| 7 | Currently Spain 's Costa del Sol offers some of the best investment opportunities in land and property available anywhere in Europe . |
| 8 | Mexico has one of the highest rates of alcoholism in the world , which appears to be the result of the coincidence of traditional and modern advertisement-inspired modes of behaviour . |
| 9 | Northern Ireland has one of the highest levels of car theft in Europe . |
| 10 | He pointed out that Northern Ireland has one of the highest levels of unemployment in the UK , at around 14pc , and the majority of households were in the lowest socio-economic groups . |
| 11 | And even though Northern Ireland has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe for theft and burglary , it could and SHOULD be even lower . |
| 12 | Chile has one of the largest temperate forests in the southern hemisphere , with many unique species , but the native forests are under threat from plantation of trees for industrial production , which was heavily subsidized by the Pinochet government . |
| 13 | The pretty Versiliana park offers a vast pine wood and Pietrasanta has some of the loveliest monuments in Versilia — a medieval cathedral , a church with three blind arches and an elegant gothic loggia , and ruins of a fortress . |
| 14 | The arable/pastoral boundary also began to creep northwards and westwards as a result of more land being brought into arable cultivation so that counties like Nottinghamshire , Northamptonshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Hampshire recorded some of the highest increases . |
| 15 | In a recent international survey Northern Ireland had one of the worst crime rates for car theft in the whole of Europe . |
| 16 | The National Galleries of Scotland own one of the finest collections of Old Master drawings in Britain . |
| 17 | Latvia and Lithuania have some of the best players in the world … but the good news is that England are on the march … |
| 18 | Cornwall and Devon have some of the hilliest countryside in the country , and the agility of a mountain goat is needed in order to traverse it — hardly suitable for someone who is elderly , and may well become frail . |
| 19 | BROUGHTON HALL schoolmates Dawn Adams and Clare Duncan produced one of the fastest 1500 metres races ever seen among under-15 girls in Britain during a high standard TSB Merseyside Schools Championships at Bebington on Saturday . |
| 20 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls . |
| 22 | I think that the hon. Lady will find the answer in Her Majesty 's inspector of constabulary report for 1991 , which notes that ’ West Yorkshire has one of the highest levels of expenditure per head of any police authority . |
| 23 | North Yorkshire has one of the worst records for the illegal poisoning and shooting of wild creatures . |
| 24 | Zeelenberg has one of the smoothest riding styles in 250 grand prix racing |
| 25 | An hour south , Sarasota features one of the finest museums in the South , the Ringling , with a world-renowned collection of Ruben works . |
| 26 | British No 2 Chris Wilkinson tamed one of the fiercest serves in tennis to dump Wimbledon finalist and fourth seed Goran Ivanisevic out of the Stella Artois championships at Queen 's yesterday . |
| 27 | BRITISH No.2 Chris Wilkinson tamed one of the fiercest serves in tennis as he dumped Wimbledon finalist Goran Ivanisevic out of the Stella Artois championships at Queen 's yesterday . |
| 28 | Mr Stokoe , who was at Hillsborough to witness one of the finest hours in the declining club 's recent history , used his position as a television analyst to canvas on behalf of Mr Crosby 's permanent promotion to the manager 's chair . |
| 29 | So , to prove IBM is still on the right track , Graham attests one of the biggest industry myths is that IBM gives huge discounts on its mainframes . |
| 30 | As Harrow-on-the-Hill had one of the highest burglary rates in London , it was understandable that residents of the numerous private roads should be cautious . |