Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] the greatest " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 2 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 3 | As measured by Quetelet 's Index , the range associated with the greatest life expectancy and lowest death-rate is 20–25 . |
| 4 | The votary of ahi sā strives for the greatest good of all , which means that he goes beyond utilitarianism . |
| 5 | BRITAIN 'S top horsemen and women were last night galloping towards the greatest tumble of their lives — an Olympic ban . |
| 6 | The only Canadian station to vie with the greatest American examples was the remarkable Toronto Union station built between 1915 and 1930 with what one writer called a ‘ blessed sense of civic excess ‘ . |
| 7 | Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident . |
| 8 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 9 | Philip of Swabia acted with the greatest propriety . |
| 10 | Consequently the question asked is not whether antitrust decisions lead to the greatest economic efficiency but whether it can be said , given the non-economic reasons for antitrust policy , that these decisions do any serious harm . |
| 11 | The shop carries a wide range of Scottish fiction and poetry , including the first complete collection of the poetry of Mary Queen of Scots , Bittersweet Within My Heart , compiled and edited by regular Library reader Robin Bell , and the first collection of poems by Angus Peter Campbell , the man hailed as the greatest Scottish poet to emerge in 20 years . |
| 12 | Painting , 1927 , by Joan Miro , the Spanish painter regarded as the greatest of all Surrealist abstract artists . |
| 13 | For a generation of European Romantics it created the image of a nation sui generis , a natural force uncontaminated by Europe , an image consecrated by the greatest writer of nineteenth-century Spain , the novelist Galdós . |
| 14 | ( a ) 25% to 50% of library users use the catalogue ; ( b ) students account for the greatest proportion of the user population ; ( c ) the catalogue is used predominantly for known-item searching and use increases with users ' educational level ; ( d ) public library users do more subject searching than academic library users . |
| 15 | Rome emerged as the greatest power in Italy when the Latins , for fear of the Celts , had to give up their independence about 350 B.C. The new kingdom of Macedonia under the firm hand of Antigonus Gonatas was the direct outcome of the Celtic invasion of Macedonia and Greece . |
| 16 | Cnut 's taking of a second , imperial , crown may well have been stimulated not only by a position in Scandinavia which emulated that of Swegen , but by achievements in Britain which lay firmly in a tradition established by the greatest of his royal Anglo-Saxon predecessors . |
| 17 | JPs were for the most part recruited from the greatest landowners in a county , although commissions of the peace often included a few of the humbler type , possibly men with a legal background who were appointed to do the chores . |
| 18 | For instance , in a high-strength steel section in an engine , only those parts exposed to the greatest stresses would require sophisticated alloys containing a metal such as tantalum or vanadium , with the remaining components made of something less exotic . |
| 19 | The increase in carp-scaring activity around the banks has forced the carp to feed at the greatest distance from the activity , and the angler who can cast the furthest , within reason , stands the best chance of success . |
| 20 | A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape . |