Example sentences of "[vb pp] its [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Telecommunications Plc has won its biggest network contract yet , a multi-million pound five-year deal to provide a communications network to the Eurocontrol European air traffic control co-ordination body . |
| 2 | Since Edward Elgar 's first symphony in 1908 , British music has enjoyed its greatest age ; but in international reputation it has made Britain little more than one musical nation among many . |
| 3 | Vranitzky had led a similar coalition prior to the October 1990 general election [ see p. 37785 ] , in which the ÖVP had registered its worst result since 1945 . |
| 4 | And top manufacturer Siemens has developed its latest range of quality washing machines with both energy and money saving features very much in mind . |
| 5 | The area where the Industrial Revolution had received its greatest impetus was soon one of high unemployment . |
| 6 | If so , America will have missed its best opportunity to lock itself into low inflation . |
| 7 | OVER the past six months , the world 's largest army has undergone its biggest shake-up in more than 20 years . |
| 8 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 9 | This weekend , senior opposition figures are beginning to admit , off the record , that in electing John Smith instead of , say , Gordon Brown or Ken Livingstone , Labour has possibly made its greatest error since it passed over Dennis Healey in favour of Michael Foot . |
| 10 | The boys knew all the local hostelries and Jimmy even owned a car , a rather wheezy Austin 7 , which had certainly seen its best days but still managed to clank around the country lanes when petrol was available . |
| 11 | Fur has seen its best days on the clothing front , although seriously rockin' on the footwear front right now is leopard skin . |
| 12 | Her black straw hat , secured by a beaded hatpin , had seen its best days long ago . |
| 13 | This latest period has , in fact , seen its slowest growth rates in those counties which grew most rapidly during the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | Where cognitive neuropsychology has had its greatest success is in areas where a detailed model of cognitive function is used to explain the pattern of performance produced by individual patients . |
| 15 | Mr Fowler conceded that a union might not always be able to do this but it would have to show that it had used its best endeavours . |
| 16 | The National Gallery of Australia has opened its latest brain-child , the exhibition ‘ Rubens and the Italian Renaissance ’ , sponsored by Esso ( until 8 June ) . |
| 17 | In the Mesozoic , stratigraphical subdivision has reached its greatest precision and it should be possible to construct what may be called isotachic maps ( Greek : isos = same tachos = speed ) . |
| 18 | The system had reached its greatest extent in route mileage and the grand stations had all been built . |
| 19 | But it is said that the Kal yuga gives way to the Sat yuga when the manifested power of the Life Force has reached its lowest ebb . |
| 20 | French unemployment has now reached its highest level . |
| 21 | * The heron breeding population in the UK has reached its highest level since 1928 , at around 6,000 pairs . |
| 22 | once the strike has reached its highest point … then we shall have dribblings back to work here and there , and possibly large desertions . |
| 23 | Unemployment has reached its highest figure for four years , a record number of people have been thrown out of their homes and well-known companies are announcing huge losses . |
| 24 | The gas fields in the northern part of the N.W. German Basin lie in a region where the coal bearing Carboniferous has reached its deepest level of subsidence at the present time ( Barnard and Cooper 1983 ) . |
| 25 | This capacity has reached its widest extent in the process of culture ’ ( 1968 : 45 ) . |
| 26 | Now the programme that turns the cameras on teenagers and let's them do the talking and the interviews has packed its newest series with just the subjects their viewers want . |
| 27 | The thrusting diversity of American capitalist railway operations , which had been its great strength in the nineteenth century , had become its greatest weakness in the twentieth , and not even Amtrak could entirely arrest that decline . |
| 28 | THE directors of a small Borders textile business , which has landed its largest order , from Japan , claim that the region 's local enterprise company is devoting too many of its resources to large firms . |
| 29 | With consumer confidence at its lowest level in years , there is no longer any doubt in Motown that the American car market has entered its worst recession in a decade . |
| 30 | THE daughter of the first British soldier killed in the present Ulster troubles celebrated her 21st birthday yesterday as the scarred province marked its grimmest milestone . |