Example sentences of "the [adj] and [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1953 to 1964 we built up that factory into perhaps the second largest of its kind in the world and certainly the largest and best in Europe . |
| 2 | A MAJOR environmental scheme is to be carried out on Cookstown 's main street — the longest and widest in Ireland . |
| 3 | They were particularly impressed with the additional two and a half million for home care with the resources to go with it , together with the additional and also of course the eight hundred thousand for the er scheme . |
| 4 | So by turning gamma rays into electrical current a recorder can then measure the current and hence in effect the number of gammas . |
| 5 | Other forms of prejudice also appear important , on grounds of race , against the elderly and often against people with HIV infection or Aids . |
| 6 | He answered that question in the negative and likewise in relation to the Inland Revenue . |
| 7 | Looking at all the brightest and best on display in Birmingham , I was reminded of some comments made in the early '80s by the late Gordon Brown , then head of design for GM 's European passenger cars . |
| 8 | The demise of aura , which Benjamin ( 1975b , p. 239 ) attributes not just to the incursion of mechanical reproduction , but also to the activities of the avant-garde of the 1920s and especially to surrealism , is correspondingly characterized by the overcoming of uniqueness , the need to bring things closer to people , and transience . |
| 9 | Most pilgrimages are to a dead place , whereas this is surely the noblest and best of pilgrimages . |
| 10 | On his return to London he makes the following comment on the period 8 to 14 November , presumably spent with Helen Noble : ‘ The holiest and best of pleasures . |
| 11 | Perversely , doing this will require the biggest and best of radio telescope arrays . |
| 12 | It also has a brand new crazy golf course called Fantasy Golf , the biggest and best in Europe complete with waterfalls . |
| 13 | It is also right next door to a brand new crazy golf course which is the biggest and best in Europe . |
| 14 | ‘ Rob , I do n't believe you 've met Commander Bob Tanner , ’ Bliss began conversationally , as though he and D'Arcy were the oldest and best of friends . |
| 15 | Above all , god represents the moral order of the Nuer world , rewarding , the upright and just with success and prosperity , and visiting sinners with affliction and adversity . |
| 16 | He 's been to the last 2 olympics , skied in world cups , faced the steepest and fastest of runs . |