Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New products developed by the best-performing machine-tool makers tended to start their lives with ‘ fuzzy ’ specifications , allowing for significant design changes before they reached the customer . |
| 2 | I enclose some of your forms completed to the best of my ability from information given by parish councillors . |
| 3 | India 's young idealists of the early Seventies gave up bright futures to work with the poorest . |
| 4 | This is the operations base for the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe . |
| 5 | In elements with multiple electron orbits , the smallest orbits correspond with the lowest energy and these fill up first . |
| 6 | Doyle 's eyes flickered to the nearest table behind Rosie . |
| 7 | We shall see that in fact , Black British speakers focus on the broadest Creole variety , though they code switch between this and British English to an extent which varies from individual to individual and from situation to situation . |
| 8 | His lips curved in the faintest of smiles . |
| 9 | The major improvement to be found by including the GFF is the reduction in the number of words selected as the best . |
| 10 | This weekend Labour and Tory strategists agreed on the worst of them : the triumphalism that crept into Labour 's Sheffield rally , a week before polling day ; the decision to push constitutional change to the top of the agenda in the final week . |
| 11 | A relief to Léonie , not to have to observe him sitting knees crossed in the best armchair daintily sipping his apéritif , one hand going up to smooth his shining black hair . |
| 12 | Streamline Graded Readers cater for the earliest levels of language learning . |
| 13 | Then they heard — their ears alert for the slightest changes in the grind of the traffic — a car slowing just behind them . |
| 14 | They stood as motionless as the wax figures surrounding them , ears alert for the slightest sound , eyes roving around the darkened gallery for any trace of movement . |
| 15 | The first pictures encountered by the youngest readers ( and the youngest readers will be very young : ‘ Ideally , a small pile of good books awaits the new baby 's arrival ’ according to Dorothy Butler , 1980 , p.27 ) will be simple , clear pictures of objects to be seen in the reader 's immediate world , objects that are becoming familiar in real life . |
| 16 | Nocturnal birds , such as owls which depend upon their hyper-sensitive eyes to fly in the dimmest of lights , might manage to fly in parts of the cave near the entrance , but some species of swiftlet nest in chambers so deep no light whatever reaches them . |
| 17 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 18 | Some plans have minimum lump-sum investments of just £300 to £500 , while Prosperity ( phone 0800 521546 ) offers the regular savings scheme with the lowest monthly subscription I have come across at just £10 a month . |
| 19 | Hrun nodded , his eyes fixed on the latest picture . |
| 20 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 21 | There is a tendency therefore for young teachers to be unwilling to go to a rural school ; and for over a third of headteachers to live in the nearest large town . |
| 22 | Although the county possesses few equivalents of the great churches built by wealthy communities elsewhere in England , it has a wealth of small-scale buildings in a range of styles imported in the latest continental fashion and modified by local needs and customs . |
| 23 | The images play on the deepest fears of the adventurers , and the man in the mask laughs again . |
| 24 | Parties compete for the greenest mantle . |
| 25 | the friars discovered that the Indians were deeply impressed by sacred images created with the newest artistic techniques brought from the Old World … |
| 26 | To see that each of her catering units operates to the highest standard possible while balancing our clients ' requirements against profitability with due regard to company policy . |
| 27 | The Neville Brothers feature on the best track ‘ Let the hammer fall ’ . |
| 28 | Here , among the sand , the birches and the occasional gnarled oak which grace the bottom of the crag , can be found gritstone gems to rank with the finest . |
| 29 | This is no longer true and tea-bags are now available containing teas from selected estates according to the best crop available at the time of packing . |
| 30 | Major announced on Oct. 17 that the UK was to write off unilaterally some US$850,000,000 in debts owed by the poorest countries — two-thirds of the debt owed by some 20 countries . |