Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] of the [adj -est] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) legislation of 1980 ( ‘ Superfund ’ ) requires the cleaning up of the worst landfill sites , of which some 800 had been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency by 1986 ( Foresman 1986 ) . |
| 2 | The great strength of the British , its mental agility , was the drive behind the building up of the greatest Empire the world has known . |
| 3 | She could make a unique work of art out of the simplest dance , as fragments filmed in the 1920s show . |
| 4 | Taking the menu out of the nearest gentleman 's hand , she laid it flat on the table , and with her pencil pointed to the first item , then mimed drinking . |
| 5 | In a similar way , the circumstance that the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages formed its hierarchy out of the best brains in the land , regardless of their estate , birth or fortune , was one of the principal means of consolidating ecclesiastical rule and suppressing the laity . |
| 6 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |
| 7 | In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends . |
| 8 | Evidence of the uneven nature of the path out of the worst recession since the Second World War came yesterday in announcements from two Leyland Daf competitors , Iveco Ford and the smaller , Cheshire-based , Foden . |
| 9 | The young female beast of burden could added the indispensable portable door-lock , guaranteed to keep undesirables out of the flimsiest room , which was advertised in Cook 's Excursionist . |
| 10 | But certain words , like certain tunes , have a way of floating on the top of the mind , ready to jet out of the smallest leak in the sensibility . |