Example sentences of "[v-ing] with the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 2 | The target 's circular to shareholders must disclose purchases and redemptions made over the period commencing 12 months prior to the offer period and ending with the latest practicable date prior to the posting of the document . |
| 3 | STARTING with a crash and ending with the tightest finish in America 's Cup sailing , the fourth race of the Louis Vuitton challenger semi-finals off San Diego was both memorable and miserable , writes Tim Jeffery . |
| 4 | A young , a beautiful , a fairy-story mother , dying with the greatest of grace , as immortality asserted itself and pledged its reassurance in the night air of her departure . |
| 5 | Among the shadier entertainments in the Paris of the 1930s was the cirque érotique , or ‘ erotic circus ’ which combined all the fun of the race meeting with the raciest of nightclub shows . |
| 6 | They sought out the most profitable lines produced in the most efficient of their plants operating with the cheapest labour available . |
| 7 | T. S. Eliot has described Andrewes ' sermons as ‘ ranking with the finest English prose of their time , any time ’ . |
| 8 | Having been closed out of the Pentium/NT market until the chip appears , Corollary Inc is back dusting off its 80486/Unix technology and enhancing its Cbus 1 product , making it meaningful for 486DX2s , adding 1Mb of cache at each CPU and going with the latest symmetric APICs . |
| 9 | We go offshore power-boat racing with the best in Britain . |
| 10 | These can be interpreted in a similar way to the maps of the Z2 Carbonate , with a belt of porous oolitic grainstones coinciding with the thickest part of the formation . |
| 11 | However , the fact that the other local minima found by the algorithm were all less than 0.15% greater than this value indicates that the path length would not necessarily have a minimum coinciding with the best probe order in other data sets containing many repeats , a fact illustrated by chromosome III . |
| 12 | He claims that serious work on inner-city policy began in 1979 : but it was , undoubtedly , the riots of 1981 , coinciding with the biggest drop in employment and job vacancies since the war , which gave impetus to the new approach . |
| 13 | In preparation for this , the first decade of the regime was devoted to the development of the infrastructure , in particular the railways and canals , so that by 1860 France had reached a point where it was felt she was capable of competing with the greatest economic power of the age . |
| 14 | ‘ I gave it to them straight : competing with the best ai n't good enough when you 're capable of being the best . ’ |
| 15 | With a string of achievements already to his credit , including the development of such diverse destinations as Dallan in China and Rostov-on-Don in Russia , the former chief executive of the Greater Glasgow Tourist Board hopes to see Derry move forward as a ‘ unified community capable of competing with the best in Europe ’ . |
| 16 | The decentralization process operated in association with the urban hierarchy , beginning with the largest place then moving successively downwards ( table 3.2 ) . |
| 17 | The simple answer is that surpluses , beginning with the largest , are transferred before votes from excluded candidates . |
| 18 | In Japan , the relationship between maternal age and late fetal death ratios is " J " shaped at most birth orders , but the pattern is more variable in the two central European countries , where the ratios are either increasing with successive age classes ( beginning with the youngest ) as the first , third ( except at age group 25–29 years ) and sixth and higher orders , or the relation is " J " shaped ( somewhat lower at ages 20–24 than at ages under 20 and increasing thereafter , with the highest risks at the oldest ages ) as at the second and fourth orders of reverse " J " shaped as at the fifth birth order . |
| 19 | For most voters , when an election was contested , it was a case of staying with the safest , and strongest , patron . |
| 20 | The Pentagon expects the Russian strategic rocket forces to complete re-equipping with the latest series of intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) by the mid-1980s . |
| 21 | Their favoured nightspot is LIS 'S , a neon-lit discotheque throbbing with the latest music which takes up half of the 45,000-seater Olympiysky indoor soccer stadium . |
| 22 | Graham Sheward , a 54-year-old from Colchester , is no stranger to gritting his teeth and mixing with the best in various stamina events , feeding off an Army career which included a back-breaking spell in the Parachute Regiment . |
| 23 | The ‘ Megatop Phoenix ’ era finds Mick wrestling with poor returns , but with the inception of BAD II he 's on the track once more , wearing daft hats and running with the oldest , coolest street gang in the business . |
| 24 | The interviewer takes each achievement in turn , starting with the earliest , and enquires in fine detail what it was interviewees did and how . |
| 25 | Starting with the smallest at say 65cm ( 25½in ) diameter we should have at least 10 gores , and for the huge 204cm ( 80in ) ‘ chute 18 or even 20 gores . |
| 26 | Mark the centres of all holes , then drill and bore , starting with the smallest |
| 27 | Here , we sequentially optimise the criteria , starting with the highest priority objective and imposing ( 10.4 ) , which says that we do not permit any reduction in the kth criterion , when passing from the kth to ( k + l ) st criterion . |
| 28 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 29 | When en foule vineyards are uprooted , this is done in reverse order , starting with the oldest , the mother vine , and working down to the youngest . |
| 30 | The flowers mature in sequence , starting with the oldest at the top . |