Example sentences of "[vb -s] [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wife Sandra adds : ‘ He 's a man of few words who hates the slightest bit of noise . |
| 2 | Japan records the greatest life expectancy for both males and females . |
| 3 | While Strathclyde records the highest numbers of the most serious offences , the survey highlights that it is not alone in suffering steep rises in violent crime . |
| 4 | ( 1977 ) have argued that resources should be shifted between spending heads and even between agencies , and Banister ( 1980 ) has argued for a total welfare perspective which involves the best use of all existing facilities , not just the transport-related ones . |
| 5 | Let us start with the case that probably involves the heaviest hand on the controls , that is , state ownership . |
| 6 | France Telecom said Spheris will be completed by the end of this year , when it receives its Minitel and Unix workstation functions and integrates the latest specifications , X.400-88 and X.500 . |
| 7 | Currently the UK emits the largest quantities of nitrogen oxides and will still do so by 1998. 2 . |
| 8 | It is at this stage of the hob that the one-man band plays the best music . |
| 9 | It is my feeling that competitive advantage will not necessarily lie with the company whose television advertising builds the best brand image , or whose direct marketing agency hires the best creative brains . |
| 10 | While commendable , it does not fully address the problem which constitutes the greatest danger . |
| 11 | Yet it is an objective standard which the directors themselves define , and not one that is imposed upon them by the courts , who regard it as illegitimate to substitute their own view of what constitutes the best interests of the company or the shareholders for that of the directors of the company . |
| 12 | It constitutes the best evidence we have come across so far that training in which the critical stimuli become linked to different events generates a unique source of transfer to further discrimination learning . |
| 13 | ‘ This ’ , wrote Hobson , ‘ is , perhaps , the most important fact in modern politics , and the obscurity in which it is wrapped constitutes the gravest danger to our State . ’ |
| 14 | Indeed , health is a complex and multi-faceted entity which often defies the best efforts of researchers either to define or measure . |
| 15 | ‘ My experience at The Dorchester and what I know from the Four Seasons Inn on the Park ( Four Seasons recently acquired the Regent Group ) , shows me that there is a market which appreciates the best service and is prepared to pay £200 a night and more for it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The native habit of tethering horses and hobbling them in the full glare of a torrid sun ( with a temperature of perhaps 120 degrees F. in the shade ) destroys the strongest constitution and often kills them out-right … |
| 17 | The Straw Race is a lot of hard work and a lot of fun , but Martin Jay , chairman of the race , thinks the best part is ‘ giving the money away at the end , when all the hard work finally feels worthwhile ’ . |
| 18 | Who was the , who , who do you thinks the best dance in your class ? |
| 19 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 20 | Anna thinks the safest thing is to hide from the stranger that she 's seen approaching her farm . |
| 21 | Of all grammatical types , the verb metaphor displays the greatest amount of interanimation . |
| 22 | This displays the latest version of the module currently known to LIFESPAN . |
| 23 | Karajan himself lives more dangerously than his rivals , taking time to let ideas blossom rather then self-consciously pushing forward , and yet he displays the keenest sense of line . |
| 24 | They suggest the sorts of function an area might be involved in , and some degree of localization is possible by varying stimulation sites and finding the one that produces the largest response for the lowest level of stimulation . |
| 25 | For example while the coil orientation shown in Fig. 10a produces the largest output , that 10b links none of the changing flux and has a null output . |
| 26 | The extraction process for cocoa powder was invented by a Dutchman , van Houten , in the late 1820s , and his family firm still produces the best cocoa powder ( see p79 ) , which has a very rich and rounded flavour . |
| 27 | Watford Gap M1 services , Southbound , produces the best cup that cheers for the weary traveller . |
| 28 | From these results it can be seen that the Marshall formula produces the best formula to use for bigrams and the least successful is the simple frequency count of tag transitions . |
| 29 | Currently the French PSA Group , which comprises Citroen and Peugeot , produces the best diesel cars . |
| 30 | The knees should only move slightly — it is the head and upper body movement towards the knees which produces the best results . |