Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] the [adj -est] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This auction included the largest single collection of paintings and sculptures of cats and dogs , from a deceased estate , but Christie 's spokeswoman Susan Adams added : ‘ We do have mixed properties , too . |
| 2 | This chancellor has the best possible reasons for reviving ‘ the culture of thrift ’ . |
| 3 | That bankers ’ summit at the Bonn Chancellery on 8 August 1990 and a similar blue-ribbon meeting on 6 September underscore the important role West Germany 's big banks are playing in what some observers call the biggest leveraged buy-out in economic history . |
| 4 | But even this ratio puts the best possible light on the contribution made by employment to the avoidable death toll . |
| 5 | Molla Khayr al-Din ( Hayreddin ) , Hoca to Suleyman , and Molla Ata Allah ( Ataullah ) , Hoca to Selim II , for example , themselves not having students other than the sultan , were at some pains to choose the best available to invest as . |
| 6 | ( When Southwark promised £300,000 , matching Derbyshire 's investment , the council insisted on putting in another £5,000 to stay the largest single shareholder . ) |
| 7 | It is clearly Labour 's vision to have high tax rates , but it is the hope of the people of this country to have the lowest possible tax rates , and that is what we shall offer . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is right that this country has the best regulatory system for reducing real phone charges . |
| 9 | In this region exists the finest Romanesque architecture in Italy in quality and development . |
| 10 | Moreover , the frequent mention of the king in this context highlights the greatest single weakness of this political system , as of most others in the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | These areas receive the greatest financial support for maintaining agriculture . |
| 12 | JAGUAR car workers are to put in nine hours ' overtime each week to complete the biggest single car order in the company 's history . |
| 13 | Those who compete successfully under what they saw as the rules of the game — that is , to obtain O-level qualifications , find the rules have changed ; A levels had become the required entry into those jobs offering the greatest upward social mobility . |
| 14 | Ministers of Information know … that it is in the State 's own interests to give the greatest possible freedom to institutions that depend on it , provided of course that they are well-managed . |
| 15 | It is hard to find any reason to ascribe the slightest scientific validity to the Green Bank formula . |
| 16 | This is hardly surprising given that pregnancy causes the biggest hormonal upheaval your body has experienced since puberty . |
| 17 | Most countries put the largest single part of their waste into dumps , which are increasingly dignified as ‘ landfills ’ as they become more complex and expensive . |
| 18 | Paul Sturrock , United 's spokesman on team matters , said : ‘ Both teams have the best young players that Scotland has to offer , with Ferguson and Billy McKinlay from our place complementing Jess and Booth . |
| 19 | Both sides made the fullest possible use of radio and television and any other means available to reinforce the spirit of resistance of their respective populations , and at the same time to depress that of the opposition . |