Example sentences of "[prep] [art] worst [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leeds manager would never have been given air time on general football matters as he was always perceived as someone who was fronting an organisation that stood for the worst things in football . |
| 2 | I shall ensure that the timing of the first formal review in such cases is fixed in accordance with my overall policy for ensuring that the time served by prisoners serving life sentences for the worst offences of violence fully reflects public concern about violent crime . |
| 3 | This uneasy halfway house is fair game for the worst excesses of journalism . |
| 4 | The organization becomes a drag-net for the worst excesses of commercial endeavour . |
| 5 | In a report released in early February the US State Department blamed " the military , the civil patrols and the police " for the worst excesses in Guatemala . |
| 6 | Robin Howard , mitigating , said his clients had not got fat through this scam — it was merely to stay solvent during the worst years of the recession . |
| 7 | Robin Howard , mitigating , said his clients had not got fat through this scam — it was merely to stay solvent during the worst years of the recession . |
| 8 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 9 | During the worst weeks of the Verdun fighting , de Castelnau impressed Colonel Repington ( the elephantine Times correspondent who , in between the purveyance of social tittle-tattle from one dining table to another , was a fairly astute military critic ) on his way to dine at the Ritz , with the words : ‘ Rather than accept slavery at German hands the French race would die upon the battlefield . ’ |
| 10 | Four people died and 34 were injured on Oct. 5 in rioting in Lomé , described as the worst disturbances in 23 years of one-party rule . |
| 11 | The ruling RPT firmly rejected in May a return to a multiparty system government [ see p. 37809 ] , but after mass protests and rioting in Lomé in October , described as the worst disturbances in 23 years of one-party rule , the RPT central committee approved a proposal for the drafting of a new constitution which was expected to provide for political pluralism [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 12 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes the Mu-Us sandy region on the southeastern margin of the Ordos plateau and the Kolshin sandy region of the west Liao River basin as the worst cases of desertification in Chinese history . |
| 13 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 14 | A covered platform to keep off the worst excesses of the monsoon rain , a ticket office , and a large , bare waiting-room or shed with a stand-pipe outside were all that were provided . |
| 15 | Imported corn staved off the worst effects of harvest failure and some communities appear to have escaped altogether . |
| 16 | Britain 's working mums have one of the worst deals in Europe . |
| 17 | Perhaps one of the worst moments in a group is described by H.K.B. , an excellent speechreader . |
| 18 | Erm , one of the worst consequences of this was this awful phrase , survival of the fittest . |
| 19 | My understanding of the Bill is that it seeks to improve the inspection performance of the worst authorities in the country by insisting on a minimum number of regular inspections of schools . |
| 20 | Seve Ballesteros is going through one of the worst slumps of his career . |
| 21 | With Ostpolitik and acceptance of the division of Germany in the late Sixties the church removed one of the worst bones of contention by leaving the pan-German Evangelical Church . |
| 22 | There is also a fairground that houses what must be some of the worst rides in Europe . |
| 23 | It is , we hear , one of the worst winters on record , with heavy autumn rain saturating the ground and early winter cold — the cold and snow that caught Nathan and I in Tromsdalen — causing the ground to freeze early . |
| 24 | Speaking from the society 's headquarters in Edinburgh , superintendent Ron Grant — a former shepherd — summed the situation up : ‘ It 's been one of the worst winters in the west Highlands for many years and for once it 's not been snow but rather rain which has caused the problems . |
| 25 | ‘ Danny had Henry Cooper , one of the worst bleeders in boxing , to deal with , ’ says Bobby Neill , who guided Lloyd Honeyghan to his world title . |
| 26 | Allegations of atrocities committed by Kurdish separatists included the massacre of 21 villagers on the Turkish-Iraqi border in November 1989 , which was one of the worst incidents of its kind since 1987 . |
| 27 | The government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , already weakened by the withdrawal of the Muhajir Qaumi Mahaz ( MQM ) [ see p. 37043 ] , suffered a serious setback in May 1990 following the outbreak of some of the worst incidents of urban violence in Sind between rival ethnic groups . |
| 28 | At least one worker was hurt in one of the worst incidents in three weeks of commando raids by fishermen protesting over imports of fish from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe . |
| 29 | At least 26 people were killed on July 18 in one of the worst incidents in the long-running conflict , when a bus ran over a cliff after coming under fire near Durban . |
| 30 | Between them , the tourist and the tout manage to capture most of the worst elements of their respective cultures . |