Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The north London borough of Haringey offered the best show in town . |
| 2 | The Royal Bank of Scotland had the worst score of any Scottish company with a negative rating of -218 . |
| 3 | ‘ The statistics also show that property in the North of Scotland fetched the highest average prices during the year . ’ |
| 4 | The east of England had the lowest number of beef herds and the smallest numbers in the herds . |
| 5 | In September 1991 , the Bank of England issued the latest of a number of additional amounts ( tranchettes ) of this stock . |
| 6 | The Mentawai Islands off the west coast of Sumatra represent the highest parts of the outer-arc ridge of the Sunda Arc and this structure can be traced northwards as far as the Indoburman Ranges in Burma ( Fig. 3.9 ) . |
| 7 | The Districts of Bedfordshire had the largest increase of any in the first period ( 10.3 per cent ) , followed by the second largest decrease ( -9.0 per cent ) in the second period , and a middling change in the third . |
| 8 | Labour 's stronghold of Strathclyde has the worst schools in Scotland . |
| 9 | A man of vaulting ambitions with the talents to match , passionately devoted to his house and ambitious for his favourite grandson , the twelve-year-old Robert , making no secret now that Alexander III was dead that the House of Bruce had the best claim to the Scottish throne . |
| 10 | John Szarkowski , recently retired as the director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York , has been reported as considering Lee Friedlander the best photographer living . |
| 11 | Not only can we use the considerable buying power of Guinness to get the best prices , but we can use our knowledge of suppliers all over the world to ensure the highest quality product . |
| 12 | Purslow Brothers of Clapham submitted the lowest tender — for about £633.15s.0d — and this was accepted . |
| 13 | The district of Harrow received the largest influx of any local authority in Greater London between 1921 and 1938 ( 134,480 persons ) , though as a percentage increase that for Wembley was greater than for Harrow . |
| 14 | During this period , the city of Cologne became the biggest city in Germany , with a population of around 50,000 people by 1180 , and extensive trade connections . |
| 15 | Some countries are keener on being cleaner than others and it has been left up to the badly affected states of Europe to set the best example . |
| 16 | Swain and Jones of Farnham advertised the latest Austin 7 Tourer for the price of £118 . |
| 17 | A management consultant 's study has found that office and warehouse space around the port and former burgh of Leith offers the best potential for growth , while giving a further boost to the area 's development plans . |
| 18 | An equine print after the style of Stubbs adorned the longest wall . |
| 19 | World champion Werner Guenthoer of Switzerland achieved the best men 's shot putt of the year with a 21.63 metres effort during the European Cup B finals in Brussels . |
| 20 | In short , the DOT accepted that the existence of a conglomerate like Rank offered the best ‘ prospects of making first-class films , of acquiring an export market . ’ |
| 21 | He and my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield posed the best question of the debate when they asked whether it could apply to rail . |
| 22 | BTG fears that if the consortium including RCT offers the best price RCT may attempt to gain a majority share-holding and might shut BTG 's US office . |
| 23 | The average size of herds was in the 63–70 cow range with Leicestershire having the highest cow numbers and North Wales the lowest . |
| 24 | Great Britain with Denmark has the highest proportion of lone parent families in the EC ( 14% ) . |
| 25 | In particular , we need to explain the contrast between the high Scandinavian figures ( with Sweden having the highest rate of trade union membership in the western world ) , and the low levels of unionisation found in the United States and France . |
| 26 | Forward planning and good communication are the two foundation stones that must be in place to guarantee that people ill with HIV have the best choices and continue to enjoy the very best quality of life , wherever they choose to be . |
| 27 | Already Sky TV is exclusively showing the winter series live from West Indies ( with Geoff Boycott the newest recruit to the broadcasting team ) . |
| 28 | Already Sky TV is exclusively showing the winter series live from West Indies ( with Geoff Boycott the newest recruit to the broadcasting team ) . |
| 29 | At the meetings called in different villages , some proposed a raid on the Rebecca , as the new sloop was called ; others planned to murder the guards in the food stores behind the stockade at Belmont and set them on fire ; but when Dulé and his companions sailed in from Oualie to discuss the best strategy , they suggested slow , persistent attrition : waylaying the occasional soldier or watch outside the compound , or in the sturdy dwellings of the English leaders , until the islanders had accumulated at least twenty guns , as well as the necessary tackle to go with them , the gunpowder kegs and pouches for shot , the ramrods to load the barrels . |
| 30 | Byelarus , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in March became the latest of the former Soviet republics to file applications for membership of the International Monetary Fund ; it was reported in late March that the IMF was near to finalizing the terms of membership for Russia and the other republics . |