Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smooth , dark and handsome in morning dress and blue cravat , he took his place in the wedding pictures with one of the grandest families in the land at Althorp , Northants . |
| 2 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 3 | A big , physically powerful lawyer born into the most distinguished of the half-dozen Hong Kong families with a genuine claim to ‘ old money ’ status , T S Lo was by his early forties one of the grandest figures in the colonial establishment . |
| 4 | And even those who do achieve something lack the scope to go further because ‘ Indians and India are the grandest failures in a long time ’ . |
| 5 | Beyond Broadford , the region of the Red Hills is bypassed and after rounding the head of Loch Ainort , the road comes alongside Loch Sligachan and turns inland to reveal a first sighting of the mystic spires of the Black Cuillin , the grandest mountains in all Britain — a journey of twenty-five miles from the ferry . |
| 6 | Many of the grandest names in European gunmaking are represented including the so-called ‘ Meister der Tierkopfranke ’ , Armand Bongarde of Düsseldorf , Hieronymous Borstorffer of Munich , Moritz of Kassel , Desgranges of Paris , Philippe de Sellier of Liège , and Jan Flock of Utrecht . |
| 7 | One of the nicest things about walking around coastline peninsulas is that it is often easy to stick to the coastline without doubling back on yourself at the end . |
| 8 | It is a right I reserve for all adults and one of the nicest things about being my age is that I can do whatever I like . |
| 9 | One of the nicest things about the house is that it is virtually as it was in 1906 , and with all its rooms of manageable size . |
| 10 | This is , I think , one of the nicest villages in the North York Moors , not least because the Blacksmith 's Arms sells possibly the finest pint of Bass bitter in the country . |
| 11 | The testimony also coincided with the British release of Commander Bond 's latest venture , The Living Daylights ; in one of the nicest reversals of reality , some reviewers compared Bond to North , rather than vice-versa . |
| 12 | I 'm sure they 're the nicest guys in the world , but I was at the MTV awards in America when they were trying to do a soundcheck , and they could n't do a song because their tapes were n't working . |
| 13 | While on the subject of meat , we can tell you that the competition to find the best-made sausages in the UK gets under way this Sunday with the defending champion reported to be in sizzling form . |
| 14 | The best-made tests on mice and men |
| 15 | He drove through the poorest streets of Paris , and some of the richest ones , and at length , shortly before midnight stopped the car in a wide and gracious street of tall and beautiful houses . |
| 16 | The wealthiest farmers were investing preferentially in sons and possibly the poorest labourers in daughters . |
| 17 | However , it might be supposed that the poorest conditions of all for producing plural continuations ( mixed conditions , especially in the ‘ with ’ condition ) would show the highest proportion of use of both . |
| 18 | Urban consumer demand was met by an expansion in food production by the farmers in the Sierra , who , although still the poorest members of Ecuadorian society , had benefited from agrarian reform . |
| 19 | This means that the higher rents are being imposed on some of the poorest members of the community , including a high proportion of elderly and unemployed people and a preponderance of semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers . |
| 20 | Lone parents , 91 per cent of whom are women , are among the poorest members of the population . |
| 21 | On Dec. 26 , in an address to the nation , Ukrainian Premier Leonid Kuchma announced that direct payments would be made to the poorest members of society to protect them against the worst effects of the price rises . |
| 22 | The median voter , concerned about the welfare of the poorest in her locality , would not want local authority spending to increase if this increased the tax on the poorest members of the locality . |
| 23 | They say that student grants , taken together with student loans , can not provide enough to cover even the most basic needs of the poorest members in our society . |
| 24 | Salt burning , on the contrary , made Droitwich ( Table 2.16 ) one of the poorest communities in Worcestershire , almost without parallel anywhere , the township itself being ‘ somewhat foule and dirty when any reyne faullythe , with moche carriage throwghe the stretes , being over ill pavyd or not pavyd ’ . |
| 25 | Readers may be interested to know that the money given will go towards nutritional programmes in one of the poorest areas of Cairo . |
| 26 | Bihar State is one of the poorest areas of the country and its society has often been described as ‘ feudal ’ . |
| 27 | The five ‘ most deprived ’ Authorities now include Liverpool and Knowsley and three of the poorest areas of Inner London . |
| 28 | Most of our population stock arrived later , from northern Germany and Denmark , as shown in the place names of most of England and southern Scotland , and in the Middle Ages the Kingdom of Scotland was one of the poorest areas of Europe . |
| 29 | That system and the friendly societies were needed to keep doctors in business at all in the poorest areas of the industrial cities . |
| 30 | However personal and household crime in Merseyside appears from the survey to be most pervasive in the poorest areas of the count : there is more of it and the effect is most severe . |