Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj -est] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 2 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 3 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 4 | Painting , 1927 , by Joan Miro , the Spanish painter regarded as the greatest of all Surrealist abstract artists . |
| 5 | Saatchi 's extremely active deaccessioning has caused a stir partly because so many major artists and dealers have a personal stake in his collection - and have , in some cases , risen to prominence as his collection has expanded -but also because his collection is almost unanimously regarded as the greatest of its kind in existence . |
| 6 | Malinowski is usually regarded as the greatest of these researchers , at least as far as his methods are concerned . |
| 7 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 8 | Alas , Castle Master , though widely regarded as the best of the Freescape games , suffers from the similar snail-paced somnambulance as its soporific stablemates . |
| 9 | Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds . |
| 10 | It 's widely regarded as the best in town and is within strolling distance of the city centre and Maschsee . |
| 11 | This latter region produces a type referred to as rasht silk , which is generally regarded as the best in the world . |
| 12 | The main area for the manufacture of fine broadcloths was the southern Cotswolds , notably in the Stroud valley , where there was not only a supply of high-quality local wool — Cotswold wool was generally regarded as the best in England — but also quantities of fuller 's earth and available water power ( 65 , pp.153–6 ; 84 , p.309 ) . |
| 13 | I nearly died laughing when Alfonso , a community leader from one of the barrios was describing how his community is regarded as the lowest of the low , and the people often referred to as ‘ the underclass ’ . |
| 14 | According to Philo of Alexandria , a first-century Graeco-Judaic philosopher who wrote many works that still survive , including commentaries on the Old Testament , fifty was regarded as the holiest of numbers and ‘ the principle of the generation of the universe ’ ( De vita contemplativa , 65 ) . |
| 15 | Its new pesticide proposals are regarded as the strictest in the world : " organic " and " biodynamic " farmers are to be seen as pioneers pointing to new chemical-free techniques for the rest of the agricultural community . |
| 16 | It is regarded as the finest of the Cambridge college bridges ; an achievement to which the architect may have been spurred by the old St. John 's bridge , a masterpiece by Wren , barely 20 yards downstream . |
| 17 | The Arch of Titus , Rome ( A.D. 81 ) is generally regarded as the finest of the extant triumphal arches , particularly of the single arched design . |
| 18 | Scottish salmon is regarded as the finest in the world . |
| 19 | With those words the TV comedian announced the end of an 18-year marriage which many regarded as the strongest in showbusiness . |
| 20 | It is significant that the Prussian army , the most successful and admired of the age , used a heavy musket which was generally regarded as the worst in Europe . |
| 21 | The human rights situation in Guatemala , a major stumbling block in the peace negotiations , was regarded as the worst in the region . |
| 22 | Clearly we have come through the worst of the recession . |
| 23 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 24 | While Enzo Ferrari always had the ability to attract the best drivers in the world , including the one he regarded as the best of all — the legendary Italian Tazio Nuvolari — the one man he never managed to get was Britain 's Stirling Moss . |
| 25 | Visitors to a major stamp fair in Brackenhoe School , Marton Road , Middlesbrough , today will have a chance to win a copy of a Victorian Penny Black regarded as the oldest in the world in a raffle . |
| 26 | No one would suggest that he rivals Sobers as the greatest of all-rounders , for , although he has taken more wickets , his batting has been much less consistent and his Test average is some twenty-three points lower than Sobers ' . |
| 27 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 28 | A young , a beautiful , a fairy-story mother , dying with the greatest of grace , as immortality asserted itself and pledged its reassurance in the night air of her departure . |
| 29 | Launching from the smallest of waves , more lift can be gained by lifting the windward rail thus enabling the wind to catch under the board . |
| 30 | It contained the smiling faces of the respective captains , Ireland 's Phil Danaher and New Zealand 's Sean Fitzpatrick , with the question ‘ Whose Irish eyes will be smiling after today 's test ? ’ posed in the largest of poster type . |