Example sentences of "[noun prp] [v-ing] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as using the grant to provide a new cafe and shop , the association is also planning to stage a new exhibition at Thiepval using the latest state-of-the-art audio-visual technology to tell the Ulstermen 's story . |
| 2 | Overall I think ZZAP ! is a very good magazine ( much better than CF ) and I will stand by it ( roll patriotic music ! ) through rain , show and worst of all , the CPC becoming the best 8-bit ! |
| 3 | The average size of herds was in the 63–70 cow range with Leicestershire having the highest cow numbers and North Wales the lowest . |
| 4 | Thomson and his partners enjoyed a short-lived monopoly to market the entire tobacco crop , supplied provisions amid protests by the planters about engrossing ( 1632–3 ) , participated in a huge land grant ( 1636 ) , and came to dominate the tobacco trade , Thomson paying the largest duties on imports into England ( 1642 ) . |
| 5 | The weather continued in an extremely unsettled mode , another vigorous depression on the well-trodden path between Iceland and Scotland giving the strongest winds of the month on the night of the 21st . |
| 6 | Although domestic sales fell , exports climbed 7 per cent to £1.96 billion with Venezuela , France and Spain showing the strongest growth . |
| 7 | Just under one-third of part-time farmers had some formal training , with North Yorkshire providing the largest proportion . |
| 8 | Further north the impact of urbanization again began to be seen as a positive stimulus to growth , leading Champion ( 1987 ) to conclude that the most outstanding aspect of population change there was the strong upward shift recorded by the main conurbation areas , with the metropolitan counties of the West Midlands , Merseyside , Greater Manchester , Tyne and Wear , and Strathclyde registering the strongest improvements . |
| 9 | In particular , we need to explain the contrast between the high Scandinavian figures ( with Sweden having the highest rate of trade union membership in the western world ) , and the low levels of unionisation found in the United States and France . |
| 10 | The Scottish Amicable team B comprising Stuart McGhee ( now Edinburgh branch ) , Don Stewart ( now CH/New business ) and Malcolm Watt ( redundant ) took second place with Graeme Cowie having the highest individual score . |
| 11 | We have lived through the world 's worst famine for a decade ; accepted passively , pictures of Ethiopian toddlers , bloated and matchstick thin ; the tragedy at the Heysel Stadium and the Hillsborough disaster , experienced the bitterest industrial dispute in Britain since The War ; remember the IRA morning at Brighton that Mrs Thatcher was not meant to see ; the mental picture of Mrs Indira Gandhi on her funeral pyre ; the young policewoman gunned to death by a Libyan in St. James 's Square , London ; human barbarities in the South African townships ; the earthquake in Mexico City ; West Indians savaging England by 5 Tests to 0 ; the current loss of the Ashes to Australia ; Torvill and Dean taking ice dancing to new heights ; Britain 's Olympic team returning from Los Angeles with five gold medals , 11 silver and 21 bronze ; Cambridge cox sinking the boat before the race had started ; Boris Becker becoming the youngest , at 17 , to win the Wimbledon title ; England 's trouncing of Australia 3-1 in the Test series ; Bob Geldof transformed from Boomtown Rat to world-famous humanitarian ; Sandy Lyle becoming the first Briton since 1969 to win The Open . |
| 12 | In 1990 there were 35,836 applications for asylum , representing an increase of 47 per cent as compared with 1989 , with those from India , Lebanon , Romania and Yugoslavia showing the greatest increases . |
| 13 | Yet the new terms failed to prevent Britain becoming the largest net contributor to the EC budget by 1979 , when Margaret Thatcher came to office and began a determined campaign to cut Britain 's payments . |
| 14 | Ironically , this could lead to Britain having the best maternity provisions in Europe — as long as the Government is prepared to back it ! |
| 15 | She could quite see Aunt Tossie unpicking the oldest and least favoured work and starting the canvas over again . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Bernard was in London opening the biggest ‘ Laura Ashley ’ shop yet ( 4,200 sq . |
| 17 | Certain exercises of prerogative power would , because of their subject-matter , be less justiciable , with Lord Roskill compiling the broadest list of such forbidden territory . |
| 18 | The Polytechnic 's case for retaining teacher education was based on four main arguments : that it was the only public sector institution of higher education in the Principality which provided the full integration of teacher education with the remainder of the higher education system ; that the proposals would leave the largest education authority in Wales employing the largest number of teachers , without involvement in teacher education ; that the Polytechnic had already stopped recruiting for the Certificate of Education course , in line with the DES policy of seeking an all-graduate profession , and in September 1976 had attracted the largest number of teacher-training students with a minimum of two GCE A levels in the Principality ; and that the Polytechnic was being called upon to make a disproportionate sacrifice because it would have to drop its Dip.HE/BEd. programme which was a basic component of a newly developed integrated system of degree courses . |
| 19 | Llanfairpwll dominated all the action with David Evans returning the best card , 21–6 . |