Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Testing of children has always legitimately had separate purposes : diagnostic — to enable the teacher to calibrate their own assessment of a child 's difficulty and judge the next best line for development ; setting of tests to establish mastery of a particular piece of learning when of concept , skill or information ; and standardised to set one 's own information against some comparators . |
| 2 | Ltd. following an amalgamation when they became the second largest cement firm in Britain , and it was incorporated into the A.P.C.M. combine in 1900 . |
| 3 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 4 | We barely knew any numbers at all at that time , but we got away with noise and after that we fast became the second loudest group in London playing gigs at Brighton , Hastings , Birmingham , Newcastle Tadcaster . |
| 5 | ‘ The vaunted land of the free became the last best hope of organised crime , and it has never recovered . |
| 6 | He produced the second highest attendance in 150 years . |
| 7 | Placed in the top four universities in terms of financial support from the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) , Bristol has received funding from the UFC this year to support the second largest increases in student numbers in the country — some 17% . |
| 8 | In 1991 there were fewer people killed on the roads in Lothian than at any time since 1975 when the Region was formed and at the same time the Region experienced the second lowest casualty total . |
| 9 | Well north of Leh — the mystical capital of Ladakh — lies the second largest glacier in Asia . |
| 10 | The CPCz did better than expected , becoming the second largest force in the Federal Assembly and in the Czech National Council . |
| 11 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 12 | Say the next largest ratio is R' . |
| 13 | Egypt has the second largest population in Africa ( after Nigeria ) and in 1983 was the fourth largest oil producer . |
| 14 | Excluding Belgium , the United Kingdom has the second lowest life expectancy for females in the Community , but as Table 3 demonstrates , the differences are small . |
| 15 | It is claimed that Altrincham has the second highest capital income in the country . |
| 16 | In terms of per capita income Norway has the second highest standard of living in Europe . |
| 17 | ‘ Britain has the second highest level of taxes on alcohol in the EC and many are suffering as a result , ’ she said . |
| 18 | Britain has the second highest percentage of tree damage after Czechoslovakia . |
| 19 | My constituency has the second highest unemployment in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | But it still has the second highest unemployment rate in Britain and the highest in England , so the economy and the creation of new jobs are critical to voters . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , figures out today show that the Thames Valley Police force has the second worst record in the country for solving crimes . |
| 22 | Mexico has the seventh largest oil and gas reserves in the world but the country 's comparatively recent admission to the hydrocarbon élite has proved a mixed blessing in the face of the fall in crude prices and a massive debt burden caused by extravagant , ill-managed and grandiose schemes to kick a Third World country into the twentieth century . |
| 23 | A measure of the scheme 's effectiveness is that the United Kingdom has the fifth highest drug prices in Europe ( about where we should expect to be ) . |
| 24 | Wolverhampton has the fifth highest overheads of any education authority in England . |
| 25 | Canada has the eighth largest coal resources in the world and the eighth largest gas reserves . |
| 26 | Malaysia has the fourteenth largest gas reserves in the world at some 926 MTOE . |
| 27 | In terms of recoverable energy reserves India has the tenth largest coal reserves in the world while Pakistan has gas reserves almost as large as the UK , yet economic growth in both countries is hampered by recurrent energy shortages — particularly electricity — while the cost of importing oil is a severe drain on weak exchequers . |
| 28 | This is currently being undertaken in Britain , which has the fourth largest telephone system in the world . |
| 29 | Sunderland has the fourth highest number of smoking related deaths in the U K. Low birth weights are more common . |
| 30 | Fish features strongly as nearby Newlyn has the third highest fish landings in England . |