Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What i-the cheapest way of lowering the gearing ? |
| 2 | A half-hour subway ride into Brooklyn , it has the third-highest incidence of drug-related crimes in America . |
| 3 | The grandest exposition of the Grand Iranian Design was given on November 14th , 1986 , just after the operation had been disclosed . |
| 4 | The park sloped down gently from his undistinguished seventeenth-century brick house , the grandest part of which was the stable block , to the lake below . |
| 5 | The grandest idea of all , however , was never attempted , even though , according to North , Reagan had thought it ‘ great ’ . |
| 6 | And there , all along the lefthand side of the Parade , is the grandest building of them all — the Admiralty . |
| 7 | In the course of the 1670s he bought a town house on the grandest side of Lincoln 's Inn Fields , as well as spending lavishly on extensive rebuilding at Aylesford . |
| 8 | The grandest showing of Dutch seventeenth-century art , still on until 18 October , must be the superb assembly at the National Gallery of Scotland . |
| 9 | The Caucasus , The grandest chain of ice mountains that Europe can claim : history , geography , great climbs and new challenges . |
| 10 | Already prone in his diaries to use the superlative it was indeed somewhat of a problem in trying to entice people to see the beauties of the Lake District , not to use repeatedly such expressions as ‘ the grandest view of all ’ , ‘ one of the finest assemblages in England ’ , over and over again . |
| 11 | erm But the grandest funeral of the lot was the King 's cousin , erm which was , erm and the funeral procession came from Magdalen down to Christchurch , the footman soldiers came , he was , sorry , killed at the battle of Edgehill , and the funeral took place on January 13th 1643 . |
| 12 | Even so , Botham took 8 for 103 , the second-best return of his Test career , as West Indies were all out for 245 . |
| 13 | Michael Schumacher of Germany will start on the front row with his Benetton-Ford Schumacher after producing the second-best time of the qualifications , 1:21 . |
| 14 | My father brought me up — he 'd trained me to be the nicest kind of boy , tough , self-reliant . |
| 15 | In the nicest sense of the word , Woosnam is a fighter , perhaps because of his size . |
| 16 | To experience singing quite so soon was the nicest sort of welcome . |
| 17 | He had probably the nicest nature of any dog I ever owned , and possessed the loveliest eyes , brown in colour , and he was my dog definitely . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the same pattern occurs when these countries are excluded ; for example , when the analysis is limited to the poorest quartile of countries in each latitudinal interval . |
| 19 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 20 | Except where aridity can be countered by irrigation , low rainfall tends to monoculture and social instability or to the poorest type of cereal farming . |
| 21 | Its public welfare , heralded as a prospect unique on earth when Parliament accepted the Beveridge report in 1943 , was in relative decline as early as the 1950s before its continental rivals ; its industrial growth so slow that by the 1970s it was the poorest member of the Community , as it then was , excepting only Ireland and Italy . |
| 22 | By the end of 1961 the Bank had provided substantial loans for development , mainly to Italy , the poorest member of the Community . |
| 23 | Esarn ( the north-east ) is the poorest bit of the country . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister 's decision to refuse funding for a survey of sexual behaviour to further research about the spread of Aids , and a new way of counting people in the poorest category of the population which reduced the number by one million , caused controversy . |
| 25 | Poverty Research by the Institute of Fiscal Studies ( IFS ) published last week showed the Department of Social Security has removed more than one million people from the poorest category of the population — having an income less than half the average wage , by changing the way figures are calculated . |
| 26 | The decisions follow two recent cases over which the Government was widely criticised — the Prime Minister 's refusal to fund a survey of sexual behaviour to further research about the spread of Aids , and a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies which showed that the Government 's new way of counting people in the poorest category of the population had reduced the number by 1 million . |
| 27 | The poorest half of the planet has been drained to resource the god of conspicuous consumption . |
| 28 | His parents fully understood his difficulties and raised no objections when he said that he wanted to live in the poorest part of South-East London for a year , to study conditions and work in a lay capacity amongst the people . |
| 29 | In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition . |
| 30 | It was her opinion , she told Rory , that there was something awful funny going on , that this western city in the poorest part of a poor country should have such places , and such shops as they could see all round them , and such terrific style . |