Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evergreen winter foliage needs to stay looking fresh right through the darkest days and some variegated plants are better at this than others . |
| 2 | 1982 ) , monogamous males might be expected to compete as intensely for the best mates or territories as do polygynous males for the biggest harems . |
| 3 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 4 | The fences start off small but are solid and brightly coloured , with lots of fillers , and the school is big enough for the largest horses . |
| 5 | It was far enough from anywhere to be unnoticed , far enough for the loudest sounds to be muffled and lost to passers-by . |
| 6 | Double glaze with bubble polythene to keep the warmth in during the coldest months . |
| 7 | With the lever of the four-speed auto gearbox shifted manually for the best results , the Safrane sprints from rest to 60mph in 9.9secs , cover the quarter mile in 17.6 secs and completed the 30–70mph increment in 9.3secs . |
| 8 | In addition , the bands detected are rather broad and heterogenous especially for the smallest fragments from Mbo I or Alu I digests . |
| 9 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 10 | Now dwelling only amongst the remotest regions of Third World nations , they represent the final fraying link in a hitherto unbroken chain of memory which stretches to the roots of the whole human tribe . |
| 11 | That view is presented in a classical French , rarely illustrated , and then only with the smallest photographs or the occasional line drawing . |
| 12 | Share his festive fare with your family , or treat them to Jill Goolden 's splendid New Year 's Eve party nibbles — all washed down with the best wines and cocktails . |
| 13 | The baby was now cleaned up and Sarah looked down into the bluest eyes she had ever seen . |
| 14 | This had not been so with the earliest stages as drawn in The German Ideology or Formen because even here Marx talks of ‘ slavery being inherent in the family ’ and the universality of class relations . |
| 15 | The winner will carry off a camera and their entry , along with the best runners-up submissions , will be featured in Watchword , the national magazine of Watch . |
| 16 | At the end of the first session of the 97th Congress , Helen Dewar reported in the Washington Post : Even one of Reagan 's severest critics , Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House of Representatives , does not underestimate Reagan 's early achievements : ‘ ( He ) pushed through the greatest increase in defense spending in American history together with the greatest cutbacks in domestic programs and the largest tax cuts the country has ever seen . ’ |
| 17 | This together with the oldest farmsteads and cottages is built in whole or part of cobbles . |
| 18 | On show will be new prints of Resnais ' classic Hiroshima , Mon Amour and Truffaut 's Tirez sur la Pianiste , together with the latest releases like Rivette 's La Belle Noiseuse and Pialat 's Van Gogh and previews of the films not yet in distribution in the UK . |
| 19 | This situation went against the grain , as the top brass always needed to be on top of every situation and on top of every executive if they were to do their jobs to their own satisfaction ; not necessarily in the best interests of the Corporation , that is to say , but in their own best interests . |
| 20 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 21 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 22 | The ANC , for its part will continue to work for the unity of our people and we have no doubt that all those who have participated in attempting to solve this problem have done so in the best interests of our struggle . |
| 23 | Chapman insisted that he was interested only in the best players , and he was prepared to go anywhere to get them . |
| 24 | Sometimes it was known as the Char because of its sign — a crude but unmistakable painting of that fish found only in the deepest lakes — Buttermere being one — and already considered a fashionable delicacy in London . |
| 25 | Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms . |
| 26 | In the case of behaviour , we know quite a lot about what animals actually do , and about the anatomy and physiology of the brain , but only in the simplest cases can we explain the former in terms of the latter . |
| 27 | It would be nice if the two approaches met , but I fear this is true only in the simplest cases . |
| 28 | Obvious discussion points are based on the introduction of the mathematical names for the more common shapes and of some of their properties , but only in the simplest terms , e.g. which shapes will roll , which will slide , etc. and these discussions can be centred at one time upon the three-dimensional solid and on another occasion on the two-dimensional bounding surfaces . |
| 29 | Individual librarians are frequently looking for ideal models of programmes of instruction or some sort of guidance and direction ( perhaps only in the broadest terms ) . |
| 30 | The drawing was initiated with graphite only in the broadest terms ; horizon , river angles , and a few roof tops — these were the key structural definitions . |