Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions . |
| 2 | By JOHN EDWARDS GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions . |
| 3 | In the second half Giannini again created the best moment , first intercepting a pass , then setting up Serena for the clearest chance of the match . |
| 4 | But certainly here , for the clearest moment in Eliot 's later plays the savage and the Christian are joined in reproach of the oversophisticated city ; , though it is essential , too , to remember that that city also contains Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly whom Eliot once described as possibly ‘ a god in the machine ’ . |
| 5 | She hesitated for the merest fraction of a second . |
| 6 | Wexford kept his face unmoved , but for the faintest flicker of what he hoped looked like sophisticated amusement . |
| 7 | Manville held his breath , listening intently for the faintest sound of life . |
| 8 | As for the earliest date of birth , it is theoretically possible that it could be 1855 , since the first recruits to the trade , some of whom were still working in the 1900s , were aged 18 in 1873 . |
| 9 | Until the Three Mile Island nuclear accident , Harrisburg , Pennsylvania , was notorious only for the earliest perpetration of a " straw poll " attempting to predict the outcome of the 1924 presidential election . |
| 10 | Until 1984 he had been a regular exhibitor for forty years , and in 1952 he gained a show record for the heaviest white with a transparent weighing 30 drams 8 grains , a record that still stands . |
| 11 | It slithered on to the road , looked round for the nearest tuft of grass and made straight for it , pulling Mr Bean after it . |
| 12 | The owner of Con O'Neill 's Castle at Castlereagh told his agent to build a protective wall around it ; the agent , looking for the nearest source of building stone , saw the castle and demolished it to make the wall . |
| 13 | Wroughton airfield near Swindon was the busiest in the world this weekend , as more than fifteen hundred aircraft flew in for the largest rally of its kind outside the United States . |
| 14 | Apart from China , it is to Japan that we must look for the largest influence on the martial arts . |
| 15 | Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget . |
| 16 | The net result is that enterprises with some form of linkage to the global market now account for the largest part of the global production structure — in raw materials , manufactures and services . |
| 17 | The adult user , although accounting for the largest proportion of public library users , is an amorphous group not clearly definable unless the adults belong to the business community or to some temporarily associative grouping like adult education classes ( where indeed there may be some potential for formal user education ) . |
| 18 | Teachers ' salaries account for the largest proportion of education spending in all types of school , though this varies from around 70% in primary and secondary schools to 59% in special schools . |
| 19 | Shifts in population can soon make a nonsense of the best efforts of the boundary commissions and it is not at all unusual for the largest constituency to be over three times the size of the smallest . |
| 20 | Everyone is asked to bring their Teddy ; an attempt is being made to create a new record for the largest gathering of Teddy Bears and 1,075 are needed . |
| 21 | The Guinness Book of Records says it ‘ will not publish any category for the largest collection of conkers for fear that trees might suffer wholesale damage . ’ |
| 22 | Science and technology still accounted for the largest group of students , though recruitment for technology was encountering difficulties in Britain generally . |
| 23 | If you prefer a natural look , use a cake mascara mixed with water to colour lashes without clumping them , or only colour the ends of lashes for the lightest look of all . |
| 24 | For the saddest aspect of such places is the way that they accentuate adversity , setting their inhabitants at each other 's throats like rats in an overcrowded cage . |
| 25 | One must be grateful for the smallest grain of humour from the Germans . |
| 26 | The best treaty will aim for the smallest loss in world welfare . |
| 27 | The Black Death and subsequent outbreaks of the plague account for the smallest number of desertions , despite all the local traditions . |
| 28 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 29 | I like the desert green for the cusp of the evening , Caribbean pink for the smallest dot of night , yellow , white and red for post-pub crowds . |
| 30 | They also gave out presents for the funniest person on skis and the person who fell the most . |