Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pers pn] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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1 | No wonder Spurs rate them the best they have faced . |
2 | The evening will be semi-business anyway , so your qualifications make you the best candidate . ’ |
3 | Midland eurocheques offer you the best of both worlds — the convenience and security of cheques and a cheque card , wherever your travels take you in Europe . |
4 | The speaker was an undoubted first-rate man whose achievements make him the greatest British theoretical physicist since Maxwell and one of the great figures of twentieth-century culture . |
5 | Industrial base cut so close to the bone the marrow 's leaking out , the old vaguely socialist inefficiencies replaced with more rabid capitalist ones , power centralised , corruption institutionalised , and a generation created which 'll never have any skills beyond opening a car with a coat hanger and knowing which solvents give you the best buzz with a plastic bag over your head before you throw up or pass out . ’ |
6 | Brittany Ferries give you the shortest drive to the Western Loire . |
7 | Television commentators call it the biggest meeting outside the Olympics , and while that is an exaggerated accolade the standard of competition is amazingly high . |
8 | Although the polls give him the lowest performance rating of any post-war leader , Mr Major doubted there would be a challenge this year . |