Example sentences of "[pron] [adj -est] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were my greatest friends in Benedict 's , and had rooms on either side of mine . |
| 2 | My greatest moment in Rugby League came much later , in 1989 . |
| 3 | That was my lowest moment in football . ’ |
| 4 | It is algebra for today 's lesson , my worst topic in maths . |
| 5 | My fear of dentists dates back to my earliest experiences in the twenties . |
| 6 | I have known her since my earliest days in publishing , when she played an important role in the launching of Paladin Books , and I have admired and learned from her every since … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Anwar is my oldest friend in the world , ’ he said sadly when we told him everything . |
| 8 | My closest friend in the fifth form , Mandy , failed most of her O levels , and has left now to start work . |
| 9 | My closest friend in the university was Professor B.R. Pearn , first Registrar and then Professor of History . |
| 10 | ‘ Bernie is my closest pal in football . |
| 11 | Director Jack Cardiff cut all my best lines in deference to the Hollywood stars . |
| 12 | ‘ Some of my best friends in Britain worked for them and were suddenly on the end of fax machines . |
| 13 | At the Parque Güell , at the terminus of the 24 tram ( ‘ Origin y final de los servicios ’ ) , after mounting the billy Calle de Larrad , I again experienced the peculiar pleasures of this fantastic Gaudi park , the subject of one of my best poems in The Descent into the Cave . |
| 14 | ‘ The death of my eldest brother in 1978 was the most important event in my life , ’ he said . |
| 15 | But I think I can say I had some of my happiest times in the army . |
| 16 | In 1880 , some of its greatest successes in diffusing its institutions and ideas were still to come . |
| 17 | This social bond probably reaches its greatest intensity in the modern nation state , and it will be discussed more fully in the next chapter . |
| 18 | The thrusting diversity of American capitalist railway operations , which had been its great strength in the nineteenth century , had become its greatest weakness in the twentieth , and not even Amtrak could entirely arrest that decline . |
| 19 | The system had reached its greatest extent in route mileage and the grand stations had all been built . |
| 20 | The Inca Empire , centred on Cuzco , Peru , reached its greatest extent in the 15th c. , from Ecuador to N. Chile . |
| 21 | At its greatest extent in the late eleventh century the Croatian kingdom reached down to the Neretva , where its frontier met that of medieval Serbia . |
| 22 | The nuclear programme , because of its sudden appearance and because of the passions it arouses , has encountered its greatest obstacle in people . |
| 23 | Viviano was a precursor of the realistic style that reached its greatest heights in the century following . |
| 24 | The Benthamite approach had its greatest impact in respect of one of its greatest points of difference from Beccarian classicism : the form punishment should take . |
| 25 | But chairman William Ebbert warned that the industry faced its greatest challenge in 1993 . |
| 26 | However , all of our established clients will also be visiting us at our showrooms where they know we retain our most important pieces which are shown to their greatest advantage in a purpose built gallery rather than on temporary stands . |
| 27 | They are a primitive , but very interesting , group with Cambrian origins , and reached their greatest variety in the Ordovician . |
| 28 | Not only trees but almost all groups of animals and plants exhibit their greatest variety in the tropics in terms of the number of species recorded there . |
| 29 | Earlier chapters have drawn out some of the consequences of this peculiarity ; this one turns to procedural matters , and to the way in which the involvement of third parties , once an obstacle to the legal recognition of trusts , was turned into a virtue and one of their greatest strengths in the legal enforcement of testamentary dispositions . |
| 30 | Not every piece of social research has a very strongly theoretical aspect to it and many of the more ‘ applied ’ research projects have their greatest value in clarifying limited areas of behaviour where people had not been absolutely sure what the real position was . |