Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj -est] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the largest banks the whole business has meant big pickings … ’ |
| 2 | That said , one of the best chances an unknown has of national music press exposure is in the live review section . |
| 3 | Edward Coleman , second Professor ( Principal ) of the College , said Hunter was one of the best friends the College ever had . |
| 4 | Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly one of the best ways the overseas student has of seeing what is required in British theatre training is to apply for one of the summer schools offered by the drama schools , and find out what it 's all about before committing him- or herself to a long and expensive stay . |
| 6 | ‘ It was one of the best classes the school has ever had , quite an academic one . |
| 7 | Was n't he one of the best postmen the GPO had ever had ? |
| 8 | Not only is he one of the best goalkeepers the country ever produced , but the only Scottish internationalist who can honestly claim he was involved in the mysterious case of the missing meat . |
| 9 | In the case of the latter , the last straw in Wilson 's continuing agitation and " one of the greatest blunders the union ever made " , thought Walter Runciman , " was the despotic effort to make the officers and engineers join a union . |
| 10 | A ‘ Grolier ’ binding is one of the greatest treasures a collector could wish for . |
| 11 | Well one of the greatest qualities a fisherman can have is of course patience . |
| 12 | To be forbidden to speak and write one 's own native tongue is one of the greatest punishments a cruel dictator can inflict upon a proudly independent people : it was one of the Franco regime 's most despicable crimes against humanity . |
| 13 | Religion has been , and is , capable of sustaining some of the finest civilizations the world has seen , and it has attracted many of the most brilliant and high-minded people who have ever lived . |
| 14 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 15 | After all , when you have laboured in the engine room for several years and are then suddenly confronted by some of the highest honours the sport can confer it is understandable that a player might believe he is living in another world . |
| 16 | Planning started several years back as exhibits were re-assessed and others found to fill ‘ gaps ’ in the story of aviation , but the rework of the gallery itself was one of the quickest revamps the Museum has ever undertaken with work starting in January this year . |
| 17 | Dr Neil Cochrane was engaged in one of the worst tasks a doctor had to face : attempting to save the life of a young girl and the child she was trying to bear , after earlier neglect and mismanagement from the moment the birth had begun . |
| 18 | Lightbody 's omission must go down as one of the biggest boobs the NIBA have made in recent years . |
| 19 | However , this issue can be looked at positively : perhaps someone may do something about their abuse as a result of Mr Rose 's coming forward — telling someone is one of the hardest things a victim can do . |
| 20 | Its peoples , the book argues , were from the earliest times a mish-mash of white races . |
| 21 | From the earliest times the spirits of the mine were recognised as one of the hazards of a dangerous job . |
| 22 | ‘ Now I want to share with him from the earliest moments the joy , the vindication , the victory after all that we have gone through together . ’ |
| 23 | From the simplest beginnings the reader is carried along on a step-by-step journey to adventures in ‘ Harmonic landscaping ’ and a variety of textures . |
| 24 | Even within the smallest schools a staff news sheet can be an important tool in keeping people in touch with what 's going on . |
| 25 | In the worst homes the confused-elderly are wheeled in front of the television and left there all day . |
| 26 | The road was very pleasant , and nice peeps were opened out along the shore , those scenes peculiar to this and neighbouring isles ; long flat stretches of heath and sand , and lines of cliff ; and in the pearliest hues the mountains of the north-west of Scotland graced their glowing setting of sunlit cloud and sun-reflecting sea , while the ether was embalmed in shades that partook of many emerald rays . |
| 27 | The Labour Party should be advocating in the strongest terms a substantial increase in Child Benefit , even if this means increasing income tax on people earning as ‘ little ’ as £14,000 , together possibly with increases in excise duties . |
| 28 | Modern configurational analysis ( see , for example , Hopfinger ( 1972 ) ) may afford methods of rigorously relating molecular energetics to mechanical properties — but for any except the simplest molecules the size of the computer required at present precludes the use of this method . |
| 29 | She was only forty-six at the time , but sheer hardship and constant exposure to the worst elements the high Pennines could mete out had drained her youth away . |
| 30 | When a motor is operating at the highest speeds the current in each phase may not even reach its rated value before the excitation interval finishes and the phase is turned off . |