Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne , her heart thudding in the strangest way when he asked her this , as though he had said something much more intimate , and then suddenly understanding by the ambiguous way in which he had spoken that he had offered her other games than chess , and his wicked expression betraying that he had seen her confusion , flushed , and he added softly , so that Matey could not hear him , ‘ Come , McAllister , give me your answer — you surely wish to please the Master in every way possible , ’ the last bit in a fake American accent so bad that she laughed out loud . |
| 2 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 3 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 4 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
| 5 | Search literature refers to the best path as having the lowest cost . |
| 6 | I had both radiators removed and transferred to the lorry and told the driver to go to the nearest large town and to contact the best plumber to help me repair the radiators . |
| 7 | Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , the abrasive and ambitious Speaker , whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis . |
| 8 | Moreover , blanket support by volume of output ensures that most of the support goes to the wealthiest 25 per cent of landowners , who produce 75 per cent of output . |
| 9 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 10 | Then he lay in a Dublin hospital bed with his neck in a brace , his rugby future hanging by the merest thread . |
| 11 | Eighty per cent of our bilateral aid goes to the poorest countries . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the jury 's finding that Poindexter was part of a conspiracy involving members of the Reagan administration amounted to the clearest judicial verdict yet rendered upon the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 13 | It does no harm to write to the nearest local residents and businesses , but generally this is a long shot . |
| 14 | David Goldsmith looks at the latest developments in equipment technology |
| 15 | Salisbury did not share half the views held by those who accepted his lead , but he was a focus for the increasing Unionist discontent , a respectable public figure acting from the highest motives ; by 1921 he had made the diehard opposition a formidable force . |
| 16 | What , after all , is the difference between a priest acting in the highest sense of his vocation , or a prophet compelled into declamation , or such a saint ( even unknowing ) , opening himself up to the mercies of God , becoming a channel for them to the world ? |
| 17 | But as he inspected the size of the Tories ' losses on May 6th even the home secretary , Kenneth Clarke , usually a man to find a silver lining in the blackest cloud , admitted that the government was in ‘ a dreadful hole ’ . |
| 18 | Paul Harrison 's Inside the Inner City : Life under the Cutting Edge focused on Hackney , a London borough ranked among the worst off on any scale of urban deprivation ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Distress is an anachronistic remedy surviving from the earliest days in the history of the lease . |
| 20 | Try crashing an electron into a gatepost and you might find that it decides of its own accord to orbit round the nearest dandelion . |
| 21 | Public disorder incidents are frequently transitory and fleeting events ; the constable has to make quick decisions as to what course of action to adopt for the best . |
| 22 | With the obligatory ‘ W ’ across its malformed chest , the tousle-headed little aberration appears in the latest set of increasingly hep ‘ Be more than just a number ’ ads , |
| 23 | The other side protected with the latest anti theft devices . |
| 24 | LENNIE Lawrence has promised to be ruthless in his Middlesbrough team selection in a bid to live with the best in the Premier League next season . |
| 25 | The two provincial elections took place against a background of public opinion polls showing PCP federal Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 's standing with the electorate dropping to the lowest for any prime minister in the history of Canadian opinion polling . |
| 26 | The LCS — Party of Democratic Renewal emerged as the largest single party in the Chamber , taking 17 per cent and 14 seats , while the ZSMZ — Liberal Party ( formerly the Slovene Socialist Youth Federation ) took 14.49 per cent and 12 seats . |
| 27 | He heard the tell-tale sound of a horse whinnying in the largest barn , and ran to unfasten the door . |
| 28 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 29 | From their figure , however , it can be extrapolated that the labelling index tended to level off , at a gastrin concentration corresponding to the lowest concentration giving maximal effect in the present study . |
| 30 | It seems to me that , in this respect , we have a great deal to learn from the best American schools . |