Example sentences of "[noun pl] with the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , many of the peoples with the simplest technology , such as the hunters and gatherers of Africa and Asia , are neither patrilineal nor matrilineal , and do not form descent groups of any type . |
| 2 | For while Baldwin offered a rare but masterly dislay of two-handed catching ; the ever-active Hitchen a taste of the modern hooker 's arts ; and Packman , Heslop , Wells and Buckton some excellent individual touches , the four candidates with the best chance of recognition fell some considerable way short of hopes and expectations . |
| 3 | The distribution of advice agencies around the country leaves large areas ( especially the rural districts ) without some of the basic agencies , and even within urban areas it is unusual to find solicitors , in particular , located in the districts with the greatest density of population . |
| 4 | the ‘ internal market ’ , under which GPs could send patients to the health districts with the shortest waiting lists , with the money for their treatment travelling with them . |
| 5 | The front-runner for reform remains the adoption of the ‘ internal market ’ , under which GP 's could send patients to the health districts with the shortest waiting lists , with the money for their treatment travelling with them . |
| 6 | Then the time-table may take another role — that of curbing the tendency to study only those subjects with the greatest appeal . |
| 7 | He supplied shops with the best quality wood which he bought cheap from sawmills ; he even sold sawdust to pubs and butchers ' shops to sprinkle on their floors . |
| 8 | Their suction-boots seemed to allow them to walk up and down the steepest branches with the greatest ease , and some were even walking upside-down underneath the branches . |
| 9 | Dr Runcie 's vision of a primacy for the Bishop of Rome is that when the whole Church is almost agreed on something , the Pope is the man who can articulate this agreement to all Christians and non-Christians with the greatest authority . |
| 10 | The Fusion scheme has been set up by AMD to provide designers with the broadest range of tools possible for each device . |
| 11 | Equally , some rugs which represent extremely good value as furnishing items , are not suitable for long-term investments , while rugs with the highest investment potential may be out of place as decorative items in the home . |
| 12 | The second period covers the time from May nineteen ninety until now when the plaintiff has been solely looked after by the parents with the greatest devotion , application , selflessness and skill superimposed on their natural love and affection for the plaintiff . |
| 13 | Inner city areas and particularly those in London , according to the Acheson Report , have inferior medical care services in terms of both numbers of general practitioners and surgery facilities , despite the fact that these are the areas with the greatest need — higher morbidity , accident and suicide rates . |
| 14 | Mr. Wigley : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the latest percentage unemployed for ( a ) Wales and ( b ) each of the five employment areas with the highest level of unemployment in Wales at that date . |
| 15 | According to a potential erosion hazard map produced by Stocking ( 1975 ) , a modified version of which is given in Fig. 7.3 , the areas with the highest erosion potential are located mainly in the northern part of the country especially in the Zambesi Valley and the Mutoko District . |
| 16 | The unadjusted rates for the five travel-to-work areas with the highest unemployment on 12 January 1989 were Pwllheli , 19.1 per cent. ; Cardigan , 18.9 per cent. ; south Pembrokeshire , 18.8 per cent. ; Aberdare , 18.4 per cent. ; and Holyhead , 18.3 per cent . |
| 17 | A significant excess of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma was found in 1979–83 in the group of rural home areas with the largest proportion of oil workers , following closely on large increases in the workforce . |
| 18 | However , Lewis and Maund ( 1979 ) did find that social segregation was occurring in the areas with the largest influx of newcomers and the largest populations . |
| 19 | Most of the general European unit trusts spread their investments over several countries with the largest slice usually in France , Germany , Switzerland and the Netherlands . |
| 20 | The countries with the highest incidence of reported AIDS at the end of 1989 were the United States ( 113,211 victims ) , Brazil ( 8,064 ) , France ( 8,025 ) and Uganda ( 7,375 ) . |
| 21 | The countries with the highest level of robots per employee , Japan and Sweden , both have very low rates of unemployment . |
| 22 | More interesting , for Smith , is the fact that those countries with the fastest rising unemployment levels and the lowest growth rates per annum in the West — Britain and the USA — were also the two countries with the highest level of post-war expenditure on arms . |
| 23 | He points out that since the Korean War those countries with the highest growth rates — Japan , Sweden , Germany and Austria — have had the lowest levels of military expenditure as a percentage of GDP . |
| 24 | The researchers found that this geographical pattern is best matched by that of sugar consumption , in which the leading countries are , in descending order , the UK , the Netherlands , Ireland , Canada and Denmark , and the countries with the lowest consumption are Italy , Yugoslavia , Spain , Portugal and Japan . |
| 25 | As is often the case in matters of corporate governance , the lead is likely to be taken by the chairmen of companies in which standards of governance are already high , rather than by those who head companies with the greatest scope for strengthening their public accountability . |
| 26 | In the two companies with the greatest number of businesses it was felt that the individual business units have a better knowledge of the specific economic factors which directly affect their own markets . |
| 27 | The other companies with the worst press were Lonrho , BP , Ratners and British Gas . |
| 28 | If we analyse the hoards of a particular region chronologically , it comes as no surprise that the periods with the largest concentration of hoards may often be those of great disruption and upheaval , such as wars . |
| 29 | The institute 's staff supplied local radio stations with the latest information , and obtained permission from the Red Cross to convert the IMDEC offices and cultural centre into a distribution centre for medicines , food and clothing . |
| 30 | Whereas Nigeria followed the classic pattern of building large plants with the latest equipment , and then suffering from overcapacity , Togo has been operating a mini-mill profitably for some years and has begun to export to neighbouring countries , even those with large , underused plants of their own . |