Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may look like a crumbling chocolate sundae but it tastes like the finest birthday cake you ever had , covered with cream and laced with rum . |
| 2 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
| 3 | It starts at the highest office in the country — and works right through to the youngest , newest , employee . |
| 4 | I mean , it can turn gold into copper while at the same time it is still gold , it makes men rich by destroying their possessions , it allows the weak to walk fearlessly among thieves , it passes through the strongest doors to leach the most protected treasuries . |
| 5 | It checks for the latest bug fixes , cross-referencing bugs-to-source , reports of the severity and quanity of defects in releases and searches for defects based on the audit trail between bug reports and source code . |
| 6 | At its best it leads to the best sort of poster — those for Guinness , Polo , Benson & Hedges — where hardly any words are needed . |
| 7 | It wallows in the worst excesses of sentimentality and adopts a moral tone that condemns and condones misbehaviour in the same breath . |
| 8 | A camera with a wide-angle lens is fixed high up on the wall at a point where it takes in the widest angle of the room . |
| 9 | Whereas 2001 stressed bareness , emptiness — not only in space but within the spacecraft too — the Soviet spaceship Leonov is lit up like a fairground , coloured lights everywhere ; and when it enters Jupiter 's atmosphere in a dangerous manoeuvre , it burns like the best firework ever — and survives . |
| 10 | The movements were and still are practised because they are designed to display the body as it moves to the best advantage from the audience 's point of view . |
| 11 | The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children . |
| 12 | The Norwegian Forest cat is another large breed , coming as it does from the coldest part of the domestic cat 's range . |