Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 2 | The stylishly colour co-ordinated hotplate offers the best in gas technology , with three standard and one semi-rapide burners , each igniting instantly at the touch of a button and each with a simmer-stop position , which maintains a steady flame at a low setting . |
| 3 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 4 | According to Terrence Finnegan , the Cuk power converter offers the best of all power supply worlds , approaches 90% efficiency , requires few components , and produces minimal amounts of interference ( EW + WW July 1991 ) . |
| 5 | The opportunity to enjoy the finest food and wine and to relive the 450-year history of England 's most famous country inn , is offered to National Trust members at £195.00 per person , including VAT , and is applicable for any two nights between 1st November , 1990 and 31st March , 1991 . |
| 6 | Yet if Eyre irritated those who desired no truck with the mystery of things , he revealed an unfashionable — though much admired — willingness to see the best in humanity . |
| 7 | The heavy clutch and cumbersome gear change remain the worst feature . |
| 8 | Open Standards offer freedom … freedom to get the most from your existing investment , freedom to acquire the latest technology , freedom to choose the system that fits your needs most closely , regardless of vendor . |
| 9 | ‘ It has been my privilege to see the best of England over the years , sir , within these very walls . ’ |
| 10 | A unique opportunity to see the largest collection of holograms presently on display in the U.K. with its continually growing and changing collection of well over 200 holograms . |
| 11 | Moon and Sun in conjunction , with combined gravitational pull producing the highest tides . |
| 12 | The Lilly Endowment has the largest religious grant-making programme in the USA . |
| 13 | Soon , for example , there will be a united footballing Germany , with the already formidable West absorbing the best players of the East to create a soccer superpower . |
| 14 | If WE can claim ( with all due modesty , of course ) that New Scientist has the best magazine covers around , then MIMS , the doctors ' Bible of new drugs , certainly takes the medal for the most stomach-churning fascia . |
| 15 | Of these , Guitar has the largest range with 60 pastels . |
| 16 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 17 | The scientific network of research centres such as Harvard University , California Institute of Technology , Cambridge University and York University provide the highest degree of input at the leading edge of technology in the field . |
| 18 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 19 | Shaw said that his method was founded upon music , and this extraordinary , teetering play needs the finest of ears to balance its tones and pace its switchback rhythms . |
| 20 | The aligned sequence dataset was analysed with PAUP 3.0 ( ref. 20 ) using the Branch and Bound algorithm to find the shortest tree(s) . |
| 21 | At the time of writing , I understand that the computer training course has the highest rate of job placement for discharged prisoners of any vocational training programme in Texas prisons . |
| 22 | Of these three , the hexagon has the shortest total length of wall for a given enclosed area . |
| 23 | Cambridge University has the largest total — 24 new posts , six for information technology , five in engineering and technology , and four each in medicine and physical sciences . |
| 24 | This month we 're starting a trial to discover the best-tasting strawberries . |
| 25 | Our study of literary texts is commonly based on a view that the most self-consciously crafted literature has the greatest claim to our attention . |
| 26 | The symphonies of Haydn and Mozart of course provide the simplest ( and hence some of the very best ) models since , even when the score contains trumpets and drums , these are nearly always used simply for ‘ noise-making ’ purposes , and the bulk of the work is allotted to strings , woodwind , and horns . |
| 27 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 28 | While Democrats in Congress gave support to the President 's decision to launch the biggest US military operation since the Vietnam War , Russia expressed ‘ deep concern ’ for what it dubbed gunboat diplomacy which violated the UN Charter . |
| 29 | The , the result of this , this constraint on us is that it reduces our opportunity to secure the best returns available . |
| 30 | Furthermore , the anomalous condition produced the greatest number of incorrect lexical decisions ( i.e. NO responses to real words ) . |