Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 2 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |
| 3 | Tanks are patrolling the capital of Georgia after the latest outbreak of ethnic unrest . |
| 4 | Palestine disappeared from the map and Arab nationalism over the next twenty years emphasized the recovery of Palestine as the foremost duty of every Arab state . |
| 5 | 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 . , |
| 6 | The two water regions of Britain with the greatest nitrate problems are Anglian and Severn Trent . |
| 7 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 8 | Huge crowds turned out to cheer as the Prime Minister , spurning elaborate security precautions , rode through the city of Amritsar to the holiest shrine of the Sikhs , the Golden Temple . |
| 9 | A gentleman ‘ should not make too much use of tobacco ’ but ‘ should recognize the Fort in Agra as unequalled in the whole world [ and ] … must think of Isfahan as the best town in Persia ’ ; if he insists on travelling he should visit ‘ Egypt because it is worth seeing ’ . |
| 10 | There can be few people in football who do not think Flashman should be turfed out of Barnet at the earliest opportunity . |