Example sentences of "[verb] it the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 2 | I found it the greatest fun . |
| 3 | Occasionally he found it the tiniest glint of deep blue . |
| 4 | The Sports Council says it the best means of acquiring all-round fitness . |
| 5 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 6 | A moist but well-drained fertile soil in a warm sheltered corner will give it the best chance , and even then only in the mildest areas — and do not forget the slugs ! |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the chairman , trustees and staff of the Aintree national health service hospital trust on the establishment of a new £7 million project that will give it the largest accident and emergency unit in Europe ? |
| 8 | All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere . |
| 9 | In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America . |
| 10 | We however consider it the best mode of instruction , as we are perpetually saying , that when ever a horse acts agreeably to the wishes of his rider , it should follow that he receive some indulgence from him . |
| 11 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
| 12 | Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life . |
| 13 | Then run the brush under the lower , outer eye corner to give it the slightest definition . |
| 14 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 15 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 16 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 17 | Burton always thought it the finest thing he ever did . |
| 18 | ‘ Would ye , ’ Rab asked ; he thought it the daftest question , ‘ if somebody tells ye they could fly ye on a kite ? |
| 19 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 20 | For her it became a cloying and pallid countryside , tamed and weakened by man 's attempts to prettify nature but , in 1947 , she thought it the pleasantest spot in the world and she was delighted to be there . |
| 21 | The self-styled Scottish convention was self-appointed and is unrepresentative , and the introduction of tax-raising powers for Scotland would make it the highest-taxed part of the United Kingdom and would destroy and inward investment that has done so much for its standard of life . |
| 22 | This must make it the best value in multimedia ever offered to schools . |
| 23 | Yesterday it said the issue would mature in 23 to 28 years ' time , which will make it the longest-dated gilt available in the market . |
| 24 | The new machine will set you back a cool £1,700 which does n't make it the cheapest machine in the world . |
| 25 | We will meet at Fortingall tomorrow , and let us make it the biggest meeting of all — the Glen Lyon folk will join us there , and once Breadalbane joins with Atholl , then they will know that the whole people is on thy move . |
| 26 | Seeing that ruling railroaded through made it the saddest day of my life . |
| 27 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 28 | Television commentators call it the biggest meeting outside the Olympics , and while that is an exaggerated accolade the standard of competition is amazingly high . |
| 29 | In 1989 Vietnam had exported 1,400,000 tonnes of rice , making it the third-largest rice exporter in the world . |
| 30 | Their cornucopian haul was to realise more than £10,000 in bills and banknotes , thus making it the largest highway robbery yet to be achieved . |