Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 2 | Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost . |
| 3 | Moreover , blanket support by volume of output ensures that most of the support goes to the wealthiest 25 per cent of landowners , who produce 75 per cent of output . |
| 4 | Eighty per cent of our bilateral aid goes to the poorest countries . |
| 5 | David Goldsmith looks at the latest developments in equipment technology |
| 6 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 7 | Peter Walker advises on the latest court ruling on how much information the liquidators can give the police |
| 8 | No firm conclusions can be drawn , however , because the analysis of the TOMS data focuses on the largest local changes whereas the model calculations correspond to zonally averaged quantities . |
| 9 | To see that each of her catering units operates to the highest standard possible while balancing our clients ' requirements against profitability with due regard to company policy . |
| 10 | Again , the term comes from the earliest attempts at explaining the disorder . |
| 11 | In practice the output rises sharply when the echo returns from the nearest point on the planet but dies away slowly as echoes arrive from surrounding regions of the planet 's surface . |
| 12 | Strinati believes in the closest possible collaboration between restorer and art historian . |
| 13 | In hand-to-hand combat the enemy fights against the highest WS of the chariot crew . |
| 14 | Because of this Barro treats as the best prediction that could be made by rational agents of the value of . |
| 15 | Isobel Cunningham reports on the latest controversy over the use of the whip on racehorses in the wake of a new clampdown |
| 16 | Inishowen in Co Donegal is among nearly 20 clubs sending swimmers to Lisburn , where the action begins with the youngest age group ( 10 's and under ) at 9–30am . |
| 17 | A section through Draycott cave is shown in Fig. 4.2 , and the main concentration of amphibian bones occurs at the deepest part of the entrance chamber of the cave where it seems to be permanently wet . |
| 18 | The realization of the capacity depends on the earliest blueprints and the infant 's experiences of mutuality , giving and receiving or , sadly , its absence . |
| 19 | George made two or three telephone calls from the nearest box , handed over the minute inspection of Orlando Benyon 's shed to the appropriate people , made contact with the police pathologist and his own chief at C.I.D . |
| 20 | A great Himalayan climb draws on the deepest resources of body and mind . |
| 21 | She is prepared to trust God and the story closes with the simplest words of acceptance : |
| 22 | The Russian village community belongs to the youngest type in this chain , ’ [ Hobsbawm , 142–3 ] , and in the same letter Marx goes on to refer to an ‘ all American author ’ as one of his authorities for such a statement . |
| 23 | I imagine they walked in silence for some way after that ; putting a new idea into someone 's imagination , even if that imagination belongs to the cleverest young Fellow of the very grandest college , is like turning on the television — it takes a little time for the set to warm up . |
| 24 | This month Cathy Bryan looks at the best buys in sandpits and paddling pools |
| 25 | The Bank of England is , of course , free to respond as it chooses to any such bids or offers but , as well as being concerned to finance the government 's borrowing needs on the best possible terms , the Bank has a publicly-expressed interest in the liquidity of the gilt-edged market . |
| 26 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 27 | At first the hedges were no more than double rows of seedlings protected by a rail on one side or both , but after twenty years the thorns had grown high enough to be cut and laid , a practice which William Marshall describes as the latest improvement in his Rural Economy of the Midland Counties in 1790 . |
| 28 | Currently , the annual saving is in the region of £5 billion , only slightly more than the sum that the Government gave away in tax cuts to the richest 1 per cent of taxpayers in the 1988 budget . |
| 29 | Pop looms as the largest thing in our lives , but as something we 've lost control of . |
| 30 | A narcissistic concern with visual appearance accords with the best efforts of sales and marketing teams , and the design of any book is a vital factor . |