Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that if others did not follow the rule we think best we would have , in that fact , a reason not to follow it ourselves . |
| 2 | The vote will follow a debate on the issue which has lastest 20 years , but the debate itself is the work of the devil , according to a vicar from Cheltenham . |
| 3 | The search consultant who comes nearest to the Board 's idea of the chief executive they wish to hire may well be successful in winning the assignment . |
| 4 | It is this group which has greatest acquaintanceship with the facts and techniques of sex and sexuality and the least inhibition surrounding them . |
| 5 | She would watch the harvesters swinging their scythes through the open corn and , towards the close of day , she would appear in the path of the lad who looked strongest and most virile . |
| 6 | Both of them were very good friends , and since their respective demises had come together they decided to start their own small company , specialising in the product they knew best — traditional , woven , good quality , Axminster carpets . |
| 7 | Denis Biggerstaff , the 1992 champion , needed to win the event with Woodside down the finishing order to retain the championship but it was Templepatrick driver Robert in his Pilbeam who set fastest time on his first run up the hill near Ballygalley . |
| 8 | Often in such cases publicity is done by the person who seems keenest and most likely to succeed . |
| 9 | BITTER MOON In which Roman Polanski returns to the stuff he knows best ; absurdist slapstick , sexual perversion and girls who look younger than they really are . |
| 10 | Lycomings offer the choice of two : ‘ max power ’ , defined as the ‘ leanest mixture which produces highest IAS from a given rpm and manifold pressure ’ , and ‘ best economy ’ m which defines itself , i.e. the cruise technique which will require less fuel for a given distance but will take more time . |
| 11 | It was thought that a questionnaire which asked police officers to tick the answer which came nearest to their attitude toward Catholics , or best reflected their feelings about being targets , would be very unreliable , especially when asked by someone with whom they were unfamiliar . |
| 12 | Then make that place special to you by conducting a ritual , in whatever form you feel happiest with . |
| 13 | Societal divisions are such that neighbourhood patrols are dangerous and have to take on the appearance of armed convoys , but it is the style of policing which comes nearest to breaching the divide between the police and the community , so that the RUC is required to be persistent in utilizing it even though there are few obvious signs of success and despite the cost in human life . |
| 14 | Assuming that each source wishes to minimize its total costs under the emission charges system , each would blend control expenditure ( to reduce its emissions and thus its emission charge liability ) and emission charges ( on those units of pollutants emitted after control ) in the way it finds cheapest . |
| 15 | Thus , national courts should search within their national legal system and apply the sanction which satisfies best the requirements of Community law . |
| 16 | It is , nevertheless , this public face which looms largest in relation to the second way in which Parliament plays a role in controlling the Executive . |