Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The authors have tested 80 different varieties and awarded the Golden Whiskers Award for the best cat nosh to Safeways ' Sardines in Smoked Salmon Jelly . |
| 32 | Quattro Pro for Windows wins the award for the best ‘ conventional ’ spreadsheet to run under Windows . |
| 33 | Among those whose work was recognised was Mr K K Sampathknmar who received the award for the best television series . |
| 34 | An account of Sir Kenneth Cork 's contribution to the accountancy and charitable bodies reads flatly without some attempt to record , among other things , his involvement in the International Year for the Disabled and his encouragement to me when I instituted fro Accountancy the ( now ) annual award for the Best Report for the Accounts of a Charity ( writes Colin Cassie , former associate editor of Accountancy . ) |
| 35 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 36 | Our Secretary has received a letter from Mr. Doug Baird , Press Officer for I.O.M. Tourism , to the effect that Saddle Mews has won the Island in Bloom award for the BEST VILLAGE — no mean achievement , and even better than last year when we were awarded 1st prize in the ESTATE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD section . |
| 37 | The winner of the Queen 's gold award for the best architectural projects of the year , Mr. Stansfield Smith — for Hampshire county council schools as it happens , an authority that is proud of local provision by an in-house organisation — has described the programme as being as much about ’ cheap politics as about cheap buildings ’ . |
| 38 | The Coleraine Times won the Newspaper Society award for the best free newspaper in Northern Ireland with the photographer and sports editor on that paper picking up national awards . |
| 39 | The award for the best display went to a firm from Lenthall Starks in Herefordshire . |
| 40 | The award for the best display went to a firm from Lenthall Starks in Herefordshire . |
| 41 | Scottish visitors did well with Willie Sloan from Irvine taking the award for the best overseas angler . |
| 42 | They were named the best Scout and Guide band and took the main award for the best band overall . |
| 43 | There will also be an award for the best garden in town . |
| 44 | Tommy Howard , 48 , from Old Swan , won the Royal Liver Assurance award for the best picture of their head office , the Liver Building . |
| 45 | The judgement of critics , museum men and those who work for Arts and British Councils is vitiated by prejudice and careless enthusiasm for the latest fad ( or desperate anxiety not to let the bandwagon sweep off into the distance ) . |
| 46 | The children who were in Pindown for the longest periods could receive more than £50,000 . |
| 47 | Otherwise 100 litres is taken as the base for the highest consumption process and for the others doses are expressed proportional to the highest level . |
| 48 | All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second . |
| 49 | It was a happy debut for the latest model to drop off the fast-bowling conveyor belt ; Patrick Patterson had played for Lancashire the previous summer without making much impression , but now on his home patch with the sun on his back he hit Test cricket with a bang . |
| 50 | The Guinness Book of Records says it ‘ will not publish any category for the largest collection of conkers for fear that trees might suffer wholesale damage . ’ |
| 51 | She would beat me with a bamboo stick for the slightest misdemeanour , and there were never any treats for either of us . |
| 52 | He was entirely serious , and had adopted a portentous tone suitable for expressing admiration for the Greatest Living Englishman . |
| 53 | We first look for the smallest , say , and set . |
| 54 | They , therefore , form a smaller share of total income for the highest income group . |
| 55 | It is the complexity of these issues and the necessity for the widest consultation which makes the Common Core design task such a lengthy one . |
| 56 | He succeeded in winning Stansfield 's confidence and in stamping his personal authority on all areas of the new department , including Simon 's , by intercepting correspondence and seizing responsibility for the smallest details of policy . |
| 57 | They have asked that we take that on , there is a report later in the agenda with detail on that , but as far as these papers are concerned that 's simply us taking over responsibility for the best part of two million pounds ' worth of spending which the health authority will refund to us by way of a section twenty eight grant . |
| 58 | Amid predictions that the emergency meeting could be the SED 's last party congress , the Communists have accepted ‘ full responsibility for the deepest crisis in the history of the GDR ’ . |
| 59 | Rose , who has responsibility for the largest mortgage book in the South East of England , said she was delighted . |
| 60 | Those who , as the Lugbara elder does , assume responsibility for the cruellest and unkindest strokes of fortune may provoke a dangerous backlash — which is exactly what happens . |