Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj -est] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United should have killed York off then … they had more of the ball and the best of the chances … even York manager reckons that Hereford are a better team than their league position suggests and he was happy with a draw … the equaliser came after 33 minutes a header from John Borthwick … one all … what now for United … |
| 2 | City had more play and the best of the chances , but they only took one . |
| 3 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 4 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |
| 5 | The latest , and the largest of the takeovers came last week with the offer of £1.1bn by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance company , for Pearl Group , a leading British life insurer . |
| 6 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 7 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 8 | But the greatest of the ruins of mediaeval Delhi , the great fort of Tughlukabad , lay some six miles due east of my rooftop , virtually invisible now in the gathering darkness . |