Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Munich dealer Bruce Levie sold four Menzel drawings , and French drawings were well-featured by both Neil Fiertag and Nicholas Joly/Yves Mikaeloff , the latter offering perhaps the widest range , from an unusually fine Guiseppe Passeri pen-and-red chalk ‘ Standing Soldier ’ to two Art Deco designs for silver covered dishes by the French designers Sue et Mare , bought by the Cooper Union Museum , New York . |
| 2 | On the common law side only the busiest barristers have any devilling to give : they will themselves do all that they possibly can . |
| 3 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 4 | Though hampered for lack of space ( the Guardian gives its readers much the shortest shrift in this respect ) , Selvey provides a lively account , brimming with inside knowledge . |
| 5 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 6 | Save The Children helps youngsters living and working on the streets , it runs schools where the poorest can get hot meals and lessons . |
| 7 | Low season — The time of year when business is at its quietest , usually the winter months when the lowest tariff prices are quoted . |
| 8 | Dependency levels rose between 1979 and 1990 in all but the geriatric sector , the greatest increases being found in private residential homes where the largest percentage increase in the number of residents had occurred . |
| 9 | Although this proposal has at present not the slightest chance of being implemented , nevertheless as the rate of inflation and growing unemployment prove to be intractable problems so people will be forced to seek solutions which work in practice even if that means constraining both government and its officials . |
| 10 | The film sticks to the same ‘ kid beats dumb robbers ’ formula which made the original Home Alone the third-highest grossing movie of all time and top comedy with takings of over £330 million worldwide . |
| 11 | Two undistinguished international seasons , only token involvement with the Lions in Australia and bitter controversy about South Africa have combined to give the game in Ireland possibly the worst public profile it has had . |
| 12 | For some decades now the lowest average fertility has been found , not at the top of the social scale , but among families where the husband is in social class IIIN ( clerical workers , clerks , salesmen ) . |
| 13 | The bicycle is cheap to buy and run and is in urban areas often the quickest door-to-door mode . |
| 14 | It may not sound like much to get excited about but for enthusiasts even the merest chance of a sighting is somehting worth turning out for . |
| 15 | Nothing could be more elegant or more brilliant than these smaller gatherings where the best of Parisian society could be found . |
| 16 | He went downstairs and asked the portiere where the nearest post office was . |
| 17 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |
| 18 | Significant increases in energy usage — of some 140% — will occur in Africa and South Asia , the areas where the poorest countries are to be found . |
| 19 | The two areas where the greatest change has taken place is in baits and approach . |
| 20 | At each such decision point only the highest scoring path need be retained since what follows has no influence on the scores of paths leading up to A. |
| 21 | Then , on second thoughts , she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe . |
| 22 | My own experience , on the rare occasions when I have actually been asked to produce a short story with my mind totally blank , is that one can tune oneself like the strings of a wind-harp by admitting to one 's mind the desire to write a story and that in that state of receptivity even the oddest , most trivial circumstances will produce a basic idea . |
| 23 | Thornton was also an important lender to the British government , and at one point reputedly the largest holder of consols . |
| 24 | After two days even the smallest decision could become an exhausting battle of wills . |
| 25 | I had not seen Um Hamed since those frightening days when the Youngest Son was in hospital . |
| 26 | In both cases inadequate research led to inadequate technical measures being launched and has , in places where the worst effects were felt , put both programmes back decades . |
| 27 | In the case of the woodcutters , for example , Who knows those parts of the forest where the best trees grow for boatmaking , for furniture making ? |
| 28 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 29 | The museum is also the place where the closest consideration can be given to the troublesome problems of fakes and other forms of inauthenticity . |
| 30 | Desertification is also occurring in South America and is most extensive in Argentina where the severest cases are recorded . |