Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] the [noun pl] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was they , with the largest of the teachers ' unions , the NUT , who were largely responsible for the establishment of the Schools Council , to advise and experiment in respect of curricular content . |
| 2 | The Association of Women of El Salvador ( founded in 1979 ) , is the largest of the women 's organizations which support the FDR-FMLN : |
| 3 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 4 | A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries . |
| 5 | But this is probably the easier of the Tories ' tasks . |
| 6 | The prices quoted below are , unless otherwise stated , the cheapest on the agents ' lists for shared twin-bedded rooms . |
| 7 | Thailand , the only country in Asia now on the blackest of the Americans ' three blacklists , and therefore in greatest danger of sanctions , fired the official in charge of the enforcement of intellectual property rights on April 20th and launched a series of high-profile raids on counterfeiters . |
| 8 | Mr Manning said the crime was not the worst in the courts ' calendar . |
| 9 | I think we 've gone through all the sevens in the blacks ai n't you ? |
| 10 | This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war . |
| 11 | Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries . |
| 12 | It added up to an emphatic win by 137 runs , in the first of the tourists ' warm-up matches before Sunday 's opening Nehru Cup match against Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | Accordingly , the 5 refers to the 50MHz chip , the 1 to the machines ' 1Mb cache and the 2 and 4 to the number of processors . |
| 14 | When our marketing er executive goes round to the surgery one of the one of the things erm he he or she will determine with the with the practice is the number of booklets we 're going to print . |
| 15 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 16 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 17 | A clause such as the following will be included : To the best of the Managers ' knowledge , information and belief no event has occurred or is likely to occur which will or could give rise to any claim under the warranties or indemnities given or to be given under or pursuant to the Sale and Purchase Agreement . |
| 18 | During negotiations , Newco should try to avoid any general qualification that the warranties are given to the best of the vendors ' knowledge , as this could be interpreted to the effect that a vendor giving a warranty subject to this qualification has relied on the information given to him by management , and again distances the vendor from the risk . |
| 19 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 20 | One way of disguising them is to launder the sum through different accounts at the club , showing in one set of accounts as a private loan to the lotteries account , in the next under the Supporters ' Club account … the list can go on and on . |