Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 2 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 3 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) on the Lower Tier of the Roaches is for me the finest slab climb on gritstone . |
| 4 | I , that , for me the hardest thing to do is example is study Spanish . |
| 5 | Eastern religions — some of them the oldest known to man — have taught people for millennia to find their gods within themselves . |
| 6 | Marie is said to have been a frequent visitor to her mother 's court at Poitiers and to have brought with her the greatest poet in France , Chrétien de Troyes . |
| 7 | With him the slightest gesture would produce positive results . |
| 8 | Now that Novell has bought Unix from AT&T , all the incompatible versions of Unix will have to stop fighting each other and start fighting their rivals , because this version carries with it the best argument yet — a box with the word Novell on it . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , she seemed to be coping with it the best of all of them . |
| 10 | In an ideal world the choice of harmonizing instrument would depend on what was most suitable for the particular project envisaged and carried with it the greatest prospect of successful implementation . |
| 11 | We invited hon. Members from all Opposition parties to consult and debate with us the best form of taxation to replace the community charge . |
| 12 | Nothing her eye fell upon aroused in her the slightest flicker of interest , except a bulletin board with removable plastic letters which declared , under the day 's date : J. Pringle & Sons welcomes Dr Robin Penrose , Rummidge University . ’ |
| 13 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 14 | He saw the house as it had once been , in his childhood — still , ordered , each thing in it the finest and most beautiful example of its kind . |
| 15 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 16 | It was the first time she had been able to grant his wish and take him to visit Santa Claus in a large department store , and that made it for her the happiest Christmas she could remember . |
| 17 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 18 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 20 | He is to me the greatest genius of our century . |
| 21 | ‘ When I say to people that Edward Wood [ Irwin 's name before his ennoblement on appointment to the viceroyalty ] seems to me the highest kind of Englishman now in politics , many of them ’ , Begbie admitted , ‘ look surprised and perplexed . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Your lady , ’ he said warmly , ‘ has been to me the kindest of hostesses and gentlest of nurses . |
| 23 | To me the biggest problem must be over publishing . |
| 24 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 25 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 26 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 27 | Ever to him the greatest mirth , content |
| 28 | Was writing to her the nearest he could be ? |
| 29 | A NEW company has been set up to exploit an automatic bicycle transmission system , which is claimed to he the biggest breakthrough in bicycle gears since Derailleur invented his system in the 1920s ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 23 ) . |
| 30 | Even if it is a sort of solution to the problem it is unlikely to he the simplest or the cheapest . |