Example sentences of "[noun sg] that the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was disappointment that the best structure for our educational future was an unimaginative list of subjects , and fear that testing would turn the clock back even further . |
| 2 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 3 | It is a widely held prejudice that the closest boxing gets to Art is that the guy who holds the towels at ringside might just be called that . |
| 4 | Has anyone else noticed how , in the player interviews in the match programme , everyone so far has said without fail that the funniest player at Elland Road is our Jon . |
| 5 | And in the same year the First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes of the greatest of all English lutenists , John Dowland ( 1563–1626 ) , was printed ‘ with Tableture for the Lute : So made that all the parts together , or either of them severally may be song to the Lute , Orpherian [ a species of cittern , tuned like a lute ] or Viol de Gambo ’ , a confused description which conceals the condition that the highest part must be sung . |
| 6 | Ironically , it is obviously during recession that the greatest demands are made on the social security budget as needs explodes . |
| 7 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 8 | It might now be the case that the best guarantee of future oil supplies lies in the mutual economic interests that exist between Arab oil exporting economies and the industrial North . |
| 9 | So much is this the case that the best emeralds exceed diamonds of comparable size in value . |
| 10 | So find the right angle which is usually pretty obvious and the side opposite that the longest side is the hypotenuse which is a long word . |
| 11 | It was no coincidence that the largest CND march from Aldermaston to Trafalgar Square took place that Easter . |
| 12 | Justice is a matter of outcomes : a political decision causes injustice , however fair the procedures that produced it , when it denies people some resource , liberty , or opportunity that the best theories of justice entitle them to have . |
| 13 | Now I know the old adage that the best way to discover this kind of information is to experiment , but this video offers you a series of starting points that will definitely save you a good amount of time in the long run . |
| 14 | But it is in the complex configuration of slopes , dips and valleys immediately behind the village that the greatest vines of Aÿ are found . |
| 15 | A comprador mentality is the attitude that the best practices are invariably connected with the global capitalist system . |
| 16 | Does the Minister agree with the almost unanimous view of the disability lobby that the best way to protect the rights of disabled people would be to introduce anti-discrimination legislation now ? |
| 17 | It is in these far-reaching acres of wilderness that the greatest glory of the country is to be found — the untamed wildlife which proliferates here . |
| 18 | But I am sure that , as a reasonable man , he will agree on reflection that the wisest course of action for the Government is to continue to support the secretary-general 's efforts . |
| 19 | The convener who replaced Clasper , for example , at the Merseyside plant , was elected because he had stressed to the union membership that the best way he could serve their interest was to help make sure that the Merseyside plant became the most efficient plant in Europe . |
| 20 | I would answer that we are talking about a change of use but I have to add the reminder that the largest area inside the city is currently British Rail land . |
| 21 | Dr Margaret Ashwell told the conference that the worst form of middle-age spread was around the middle as the traditional beer-belly shape meant more fat was concentrated where it does most harm — around the internal organs . |
| 22 | Margaret Meek and a group of teachers ( Meek , 1983 ) made a longitudinal study of the interaction between themselves and older backward readers , and came to the conclusion that the greatest progress was made when the teachers managed to pass the " initiative for learning " over to the pupils , despite the fact that they were self-confirmed " failures " . |
| 23 | It was in this community that the closest approximation to a traditional participant observation study was achieved , since the observer had for her entire life been part of the social setting which she was observing . |
| 24 | I am pleased to tell my hon. Friend that the latest estimate we can make for the spend on computerisation this year will not be £20 million but £25 million . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) Ito does not mention evidence that the earliest expression of learning in the VOR evoked by an electrical stimulus in the labyrinth occurs only 5 ms after the stimulus , too soon to allow time for transmission through the cerebellum . |
| 26 | Indeed , there are many people for whom the knowledge that the earliest Anglo-Saxons came immediately after the Romans and before the Vikings would be a revelation . |
| 27 | He ends by dismissing abstract art as leading , by its own logic , back to the blank canvas which once again requires the painter to put something on it : ‘ but with the knowledge that the greatest painting has always been made from a real love of the object ’ . |
| 28 | But the Home Office said last night that the latest releases , after interviews carried out as part of a review of each case , were unconnected with recent events . |
| 29 | Strangely , it is in this area that the greatest fears concerning CAD exist . |
| 30 | Each shift , miners cut away several metres of earth at a rate that the fittest athlete could not match . |