Example sentences of "with the greatest [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He treated her with the greatest courtesy , concerned that she should not be tired , or bored ; that the holiday should be nothing less than perfect . |
| 2 | The figures show that beer and spirits together constitute the industry with the greatest publicity in Mexico ( Harvey 1983 ) . |
| 3 | All agree that it was fought with the greatest bravery on both sides and that the victory was by no means an easy one for Shoa . |
| 4 | She was filled with the greatest apprehension about the next couple of days . |
| 5 | Indeed , the police treated us both with the greatest sympathy and consideration from the moment I rang them from a callbox on the Abingdon Road . |
| 6 | I , being regarded as the principal guest , was presented with the greatest delicacy , which appeared to be a part of the breast . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the house of Foix-Béarn emerged as the neighbouring territorial power with the greatest measure of control over Bigorre and the important Pyrenean passes which lay within its boundaries . |
| 8 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 9 | Secondary schools seem to find the prospect of having to produce a report most threatening ( least , primary ) , with the greatest degree of uncertainty as to the stage reached in presentation : a quarter of secondary school teachers were unsure whether their school report had yet been submitted to the LEA whilst only 5 per cent of middle school teachers and no primary school teachers were unsure about this . |
| 10 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 11 | It was with the greatest relief we soon heard of the surrender of the German Generals to Field Marshal Montgomery . |
| 12 | Prevalent winds are those which blow with the greatest frequency at any place . |
| 13 | In 1981 Welwyn possessed the largest proportion of older working people out of all the LLMAs in Britain , while Stevenage , Thetford and Bracknell headed the list of LLMAs with the greatest percentage increases in elderly numbers over the previous decade ( Champion et al . , |
| 14 | As measured by Quetelet 's Index , the range associated with the greatest life expectancy and lowest death-rate is 20–25 . |
| 15 | The kind of information which a long-term participant observer receives must be treated with the greatest circumspection , for it depends ultimately not on whether he or she is carrying a tape-recorder , but on the degree of trust , mutual confiding and general affinity which has developed between researcher and subjects . |
| 16 | Her mother , once rid of the armour-plated respectability of Maître Henri and his phalanx of parents , brothers and sisters , all devoted to the law , had married a happy-go-lucky literary exile from Leeds , as nearly as possible his opposite , and the half-English , half-French child had been absorbed into their slapdash household with the greatest enthusiasm and affection , and never given time to doubt or worry , surrounded as she was by joyous evidence of her own importance and value . |
| 17 | Bob Busby had also concluded his business at the urinal , but is adjusting his dress with a great deal of fumbling and knee-flexing , as if his member is of such majestic size that it can be coaxed back into his Y-fronts only with the greatest difficulty . |
| 18 | When I came to Macmillan , it was with the greatest difficulty that I telephoned him at all . |
| 19 | ‘ The successful scholar is normally the person who has the least difficulty in identifying the route from A to B … yet are these always the best people to put in charge of those with the greatest difficulty ? ’ . |
| 20 | It was only with the greatest difficulty that Peter could imagine the mechanics that must have led to his own conception . |
| 21 | It studies ‘ snapshots ’ of the successive positions , and so discovers specific points of contact with coincidentally present blocks ( such as D ) which will interrupt the fall that would have been predicted by a theoretical physicist from equations and measurements describing A and B. As in this case , many detailed relations between blocks are implicit in the diagrammatic representation which could be explicitly stated only with the greatest difficulty . |
| 22 | It was only with the greatest difficulty that the crew managed to carry out an emergency landing at Detroit . |
| 23 | When she did , her voice was soft , but tightly controlled , the words clipped , and it was obvious that she was holding her temper in check with the greatest difficulty . |
| 24 | All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty . |
| 25 | She paused , and smiled politely at Caroline , who gathered her will-power with the greatest difficulty and smiled back . |
| 26 | Kate , forcing herself with the greatest difficulty to resist his blatant charm , gave him back a calculating half-smile . |
| 27 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 28 | Bartocci made Zen sound like a mad dog he was managing to restrain only with the greatest difficulty . |
| 29 | When it comes to riding waves , surfers are the people with the greatest knowledge . |
| 30 | The failure was forecast by almost all those with the greatest knowledge of the working of industrial relations in this country and , more particularly , abroad . |