Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so write and tell me all about it — I 'll be sending a bottle of Moet & Chandon Champagne for the best letter ! |
| 2 | Intel president Andy Grove on the biggest mistake he made last year |
| 3 | In Northamptonshire , a sense of continuity existed in a WEA tradition from the earliest period of the Association 's activities . |
| 4 | The LVF advantage at the shortest duration implies that the right hemisphere may recognise genuine words when it sees them , even though it can not necessarily identify them , which suggests that in this respect the right half of the brain is not inferior to the left . |
| 5 | While the golf trade generally had been slow to respond , the R & A continued its generous support and the Gus Payne Trophy for the highest club donation to the annual appeal went to Wentworth , which raised a record total of £9,005 . |
| 6 | The 1992 RIBA Trustees Medal , endowed by Marley plc for the best architecture of its time , normally up to 25 years of age , anywhere in the world by a living British designer , was presented to Sir Denys Lasdun for the Royal College of Physicians , London . |
| 7 | TWENTY people were shot and hacked to death in a Johannesburg township in the worst incident of violence in South Africa since August 1990 , and 10 others were killed in settlements elsewhere in the city , writes Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg . |
| 8 | On May 30 , amid tight security , Bhutto visited Hyderabad where she blamed both the MQM and the Sindhi nationalist Jiye Sind movement for the latest upsurge in violence , accusing them of seeking a " reign of terror " in Sind . |
| 9 | David Ottewill 's The Edwardian Garden ( Yale University Press , 1989 ) has won the Sir Banister Fletcher Award for the best book of the year on architecture or the fine arts . |
| 10 | R.L. Soale 's ‘ Peace Perfect Peace ’ ( above ) , is a more typical entry to the marquetry classes , and won the Jack Fletcher Trophy for the best piece in the Secondary category , for marquetarians who have never won an award . |
| 11 | AS 70,000 East Germans streamed through Leipzig on Monday night in the largest demonstration the German Democratic Republic has ever seen , a few marchers approached the line of the workers ' militia units , on standby in a side-street there . |
| 12 | The travelling fans voted the Newport Road hostelry as the best pub of the 50-plus they visited last season . |
| 13 | He declined the offer of a Land-Rover ride for the dullest part of the journey . |
| 14 | There is now an elegant bandstand and a curious pile of Purbeck stone at the highest point , forming the War Memorial . |
| 15 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 16 | Jonathan Tan , a sixthform student at Manchester Grammar School , won the 1991 RSC award for the highest mark in the GCE A-level chemistry examination set by the JMB . |
| 17 | Moves by the Government to incorporate the EC directive on money laundering into UK law at the earliest opportunity have received strong support from the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group . |
| 18 | I accepted plate and cup , thanked her , and wondered how on earth , into a conversation which had ranged from hydroponics to knitting to the situation in the smaller countries of the Warsaw Pact to the best breed of wool for spinning tweed to the honey and the siting of the hives — how on earth I could decently introduce my queries about Ewen Mackay . |
| 19 | MICHAEL WILCOX 'S NEW BOOK : THE WILCOX GUIDE TO THE FINEST WATERCOLOUR PAINTS , IS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH ALL GOOD BOOKSELLERS AND ART SHOPS . |
| 20 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 21 | In its turn , the music activates the Apolline component to the highest degree . |
| 22 | AND so to the Good Friday question in the Mensa search for the brightest part of Britain . |
| 23 | She won the Biffo Betts Giant Slalom Trophy , the Tony Gregory Trophy , the Courage Special Slalom Trophy , the Ladies ' Combined Open Champion , the Eric Henry Trophy , the Pat Magill Trophy for the best newcomer , and finally , the Duchess of York 's Trophy for the Ladies Commonwealth Overall Champion . |
| 24 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 25 | With Steve Bull suffering from the worst goalscoring drought of his career and Wolves picking up just three points from a possible 21 , Turner faces problems . |
| 26 | Take a walk out from Morecambe , and head north to Hest Bank for the best place to see the birds . |
| 27 | The work marks the end of a long battle at Darlington council over the best pedestrianisation plan for Darlington . |
| 28 | STEVE BRUCE yesterday described lifting the Rumbelows Cup as the proudest moment of his life , then suggested the honour of being the first Manchester United captain to do so should have gone to Bryan Robson . |
| 29 | And I know these people do n't feel free , I know they 're all hurrying along or sitting there worrying about their jobs or their mortgages or being late or an IRA bomb in the nearest litter-bin , but I look at them and feel a terrible sense of loss , because I think I 've surrendered all this ; the ordinariness of life , the ability just to be part of it and take part in it . |
| 30 | DURING THE UUAC GENERAL STRIKE THESE AIRCRAFT WERE TOUCHING DOWN EVERY FEW MINUTES AT ALDERGROVE AIRPORT IN THE LARGEST AIR AND SEA MOVEMENT OF TROOPS UNDERTAKEN BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT SINCE THE SUEZ OPERATION TWENTY-ONE YEARS EARLIER . |