Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid being thrown when sailing in waves , look ahead to choose the best course and allow the waves to flex over the waves . |
| 2 | Age probably has the greatest impact on the way people rank their goal priorities . |
| 3 | March usually has the heaviest rainfall , just over 100mm on average . |
| 4 | Now it 's my very great pleasure to I think probably introduce the youngest member of our audience here today and a very good supporter of Save The Children erm I am sitting down soon beside Elise who 's travelled all the way from Norwich . |
| 5 | Afterwards as the plaudits for the winner died down , Homer confided in me : ‘ You 've just seen the best jockey since Jonjo O'Neill , ’ and who would argue with that assertion nowadays ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why , I 've just had the strangest thought . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But actually I 've just bought the best electro-acoustic I 've ever seen or heard — a Takamine . |
| 8 | But they 've already had the best part of a week in which to forget . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've always got the greatest thrill from music when it communicates directly to me . |
| 10 | So I thought as we 've still got the biggest guarantee I would go to it . |
| 11 | Not that I 've ever had the slightest sympathy from you . |
| 12 | And you 've probably made the best choice . |
| 13 | ‘ But we 've probably spent the best part of £1m on lawyers ’ fees , let alone our own time . ’ |
| 14 | Then I could remain sane about it , by thinking I 'm being stupid : I 've really got the best world . |
| 15 | Scum fans claim they 've now got the best pitch in the Premiership . |
| 16 | You 've never displayed the slightest interest in what I do . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never had the smallest doubt that you hated me . ’ |
| 18 | We have already mentioned the simplest method is to tie a stripwood header to the kite line after the kite has been launched and is then able to lift the weight ; that is to say , after about 20m or 65ft of line has been paid out , and the kite is free of ground level turbulence . |
| 19 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 20 | And you 'll be interested to know that , as of today , you have just achieved the worst accident record in the division . ’ |
| 21 | I HAVE always had the highest regard for Rugby League 's board of directors — until their recent decision to restore the two-division set-up . |
| 22 | May I pay a tribute to the Under-Secretary , my hon. Friend the Member for Fareham ( Mr. Lloyd ) , from whom I have always had the greatest courtesy and the most enormous amount of help in dealing with constituency cases . |
| 23 | As there has been very little traffic today , I just thought I would comment on somebody 's statement that Leeds have possibly got the best squad in the premier league . |
| 24 | the above have probably had the greatest impact . |
| 25 | At Marlborough College , where he runs what is widely recognised as the best art department at any school in Britain , his students have repeatedly achieved the highest A-grade results in the country . |
| 26 | I would like to think that the glamour and the inevitable aspects of artificiality in my job have never made the slightest impact on the way I live . |
| 27 | I have caught fish ‘ on the drop ’ with leger tackle , and I have experimented with float tackle at different depths , but I have never found the slightest evidence of bream shoaling in different size layers in stillwaters . |