Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 2 | I 'm telling you this in the strictest confidence of course . ’ |
| 3 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 4 | We hope that this Update will keep you abreast of the latest developments in assessment and related issues . |
| 5 | Do come and tell me all about the latest fashions in London . ’ |
| 6 | So instead she stormed into the kitchen , surveyed the two lumps of meat and the assortment of vegetables , threw them all into the largest pot she could lay her hands on , and fried them . |
| 7 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 8 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |
| 9 | ‘ The Society can help keep them abreast of the latest news and put them in touch with others who have similar interests . ’ |
| 10 | Variations Tweed and Highland were each updated with two new colours , keeping them abreast of the latest trends in colour and furnishing styles . |
| 11 | As we saw above , for them one of the commonest mistakes of the crude materialism which they criticize is to think that men deal with the world simply as it is ; as it would be defined by physics or biology . |
| 12 | The Sixth is for me one of the greatest symphonies — and so seldom played in the past ! |
| 13 | For me one of the greatest gifts is the ability to look at things as if you are seeing them for the first time . |
| 14 | Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert . |
| 15 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 16 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 17 | Mill Reefs victory had proved him one of the greatest European racehorses of the age . |
| 18 | As a Monk of the Abbey of Bec in France he made a study of architecture and this was to make him one of the foremost architects of his age . |
| 19 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 20 | Are New Agers just simply home-grown nature-lovers , or are they one of the greatest dangers to confront Christendom ? |
| 21 | It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest paid people on British TV . |
| 22 | He had to be patient , but his wish finally came true last year , when at the age of 40 , his work as a sports photographer brought him face-to-face with the biggest desert of them all — the awe-inspiring Sahara . |
| 23 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 24 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 25 | They know when to knock it to the corners , when to play it short , when to feed the strikers and they do it all with the highest quality . |
| 26 | One of them carries Coslany Street north from St Laurence 's Church , and is a cast-iron bridge of 1804 , making it one of the earliest surviving iron bridges in Britain , built a quarter of a century after Shropshire 's famous pioneer at Ironbridge ( q.v . ) . |
| 27 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 28 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 29 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 30 | Virgin last night refused to comment , but estimates are that the deal could be worth well in excess of £50m , making it one of the largest investments by a Japanese organisation in a UK company . |