Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj -est] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martina Navratilova is arguably the greatest woman tennis player of all time . |
| 2 | And McGurk , the smallest man on the field at 5′ 7″ , scored the winning point with just three minutes left of arguably the best championship game of the year . |
| 3 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 4 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 5 | Naturally the commonest insect fossils are the most durable parts , like the wing cases ( elytra ) of the beetles . |
| 6 | Failing that they had to trudge down the nearest side streets with their suitcases , knock on doors at random asking whether they took theatricals . |
| 7 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 8 | There is still an unspoken assumption that it will be the women who make the sacrifices when it comes to childcare and it is perhaps the thickest glass ceiling of all for many women . |
| 9 | Perhaps the best icon editor around is Icon Make-It , which is available for £59.95 from Guildsoft on . |
| 10 | This toolbox of useful utilities is perhaps the best disk utility software around . |
| 11 | So opens Blaze 's ‘ 25 Years Later ’ , perhaps the best soul debut for half a decade . |
| 12 | Perhaps the best example fur choreographers to study-is Petipa 's work for the corps de ballet , particularly in La Bayadère ( Scene of the Shades ) . |
| 13 | I think I should mention we have perhaps the best library collection in Britain on developing country material , and if there is someone with a specialist need , they would be welcome to use our library . |
| 14 | Perhaps the commonest stone vessels were those that were compact in form , like birds ' nests , but more ambitious forms were attempted even from the beginning , such as the circular pot-lids with handles in the form of a reclining dog , made , apparently in some numbers , at Mochlos in around 2500 BC . |
| 15 | Perhaps the commonest phrase people used in their talk about the past was al-hukuma al- arabiya ( which can be translated as ‘ people 's government ’ or ‘ Arab government ’ ) . |
| 16 | Charles Darwin , perhaps the greatest field naturalist of all time , was impressed by this when he first encountered the tropics during his journey in HMS Beagle in the 1830s . |
| 17 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps the greatest quality characteristic possessed by vines grown in Champagne is the ability to produce ripe grapes with a relatively high degree of acidity . |
| 19 | The Don , Dee 's near neighbour can also produce superb sport with salmon ; but less well known is the fact that the Don is perhaps the finest trout stream in the world . |
| 20 | An impressively rugged coast walk with perhaps the finest sea-board hill in Pembrokeshire for the climax ; the changes of direction provide an interesting sequence of views . |
| 21 | Here perhaps the simplest assembly situation is examined . |
| 22 | Perhaps the worst treatment Graham had to endure was an experiment with ultra-violet rays , carried out at the local hospital . |
| 23 | And above all there 's Juliette Greco singing Si tu t'imagines , which is a Raymond Queneau poem , and Sartre 's Rue des Blancs Manteaux , perhaps the worst pop lyric ever , which she just about manages to save . |
| 24 | This is obviously the safest payment method and has become more common because of foreign exchange shortages in LDCs . |
| 25 | The 24,000-strong Army of Africa , stationed in Morocco and commanded by General Franco , was incomparably the best fighting force in the Spanish army and one hundred per cent behind the rising . |
| 26 | Much the funniest poll night offering — with the possible exception of Have I Got News For You ( BBC2 ) , which was still being edited as I write — was the scheduled repeat of Porridge ( BBC1 ) . |
| 27 | Much the smallest sea tern , and readily told by its always white forehead , its black-tipped yellow bill , its orange-yellow legs and its quicker , jerkier flight , hovering like a marionette . |
| 28 | Now the Dublin Government is promising to bring in the toughest extradition legislation in the EC . |
| 29 | We will call this backwards pruning because , at the point where more than one path has the same successor , the algorithm can look back the way it has come , and mark or retain only the highest scoring path . |
| 30 | At each such decision point only the highest scoring path need be retained since what follows has no influence on the scores of paths leading up to A. |