Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [art] [adj -est] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 2 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 3 | Our canvas stretcher-beds were quickly drenched with blood , because we used them for the worst wounded — the others had to be laid on the tiled floor . |
| 4 | In its clarity and purity of form , the mosque reminded me of the best early Cistercian architecture — that brief and precious half-century before the original ascetic urge began to give way to the worldly frivolity of the Later Middle Ages , the period that produced the great Chapter House at Fountains and the original dark-stone nave at Rievaulx . |
| 5 | Smith absented himself for the shortest possible time during the annual 1st Glasgow Company camp at Tighnabruaich in July 1909 to receive his knighthood in London . |
| 6 | He knew he had performed well and he was able to present himself in the best possible aura , that of self-satisfaction , because Hopper gave him carte blanche to edit his own part on film . |
| 7 | Although the Challenge is only a year old it has established itself as the biggest single charity fund raising event in the region . |
| 8 | We have done our utmost to provide you with the best possible product but if you have any complaints or suggestions as to how it could be improved do n't hesitate to let us know . |
| 9 | To help your GP prescribe for you in the best possible way , from April 1991 , what is called an ‘ indicative prescribing scheme ’ will be introduced . |
| 10 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 11 | If you have more than one suspended instantiation of BBCBASIC(Z80) , pressing |
| 12 | But our intention is to take account of your views and address the issues that concern you at the earliest practicable opportunity . |
| 13 | Last year saw the one of the biggest international fields ever at the Bramham Three Day Event with the overseas challenge being repelled by Virginia Leng on Welton Chit Chat . |
| 14 | In particular , if all assets were equally risky , then everyone would choose the one with the greatest expected payoff to holding it . |
| 15 | Not the one in which he aimed highest , but the one in which his inspiration is most fully sustained ; the one with the strongest dramatic thrust ; the only one in which you truly care about the fate of the characters . |
| 16 | .. It can hardly be considered that to ask an employee to acquire basic skills as to retrieving information from a computer … is something in the slightest esoteric or even , nowadays , unusual . |
| 17 | This can turn into a driver where people then feel they have to achieve everything in the fastest possible time . |
| 18 | It is symptomatic of our age that we wish to declare the existence of everything in the loudest possible way . |
| 19 | So , for perfect results , reduce everything to the lowest common denominator before putting it into the press . |
| 20 | I turned to my nearest fellow browser , intending to ask her politely but firmly to lead me to the nearest padded cell , but it came out wrong . |
| 21 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 22 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 23 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 24 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 25 | Even in the early years , Piper 's percentage gave him $8,000 a year , making him amongst the highest paid men in Australia . |
| 26 | As a Unitarian he was debarred from holding civic appointments or public office , but , following the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 , for the annulment of which he had campaigned , the corporation of Newcastle in 1832 invested him with the highest judicial function in their gift , the recordership , and shortly afterwards with the honorary freedom of the city . |
| 27 | But again the questions — was Boswell telling the truth about Johnson , or was he presenting him in the best possible light ? |
| 28 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 29 | Steering her to the nearest free table , he disappeared inside the café , to return almost at once with two brandies . |
| 30 | The fact that the Prime Minister of Great Britain had twice flown to Germany to intercede with him , and on the third occasion had hurried across Europe with the heads of the French and Italian Governments to meet him at the shortest possible notice , constituted a personal triumph for Hitler . |