Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj -est] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there . |
| 2 | That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king . |
| 3 | What this , this union must do and what Labour must do is campaign for the earliest possible opt-in to the Social Chapter . |
| 4 | That is the orderly and sensible way to proceed , which is why we are pressing and encouraging others to press for the earliest possible membership of the former Soviet republics in the IMF . |
| 5 | Indeed , long before the clusters of nineteenth-century hotels arose in Interlaken , Thun was the gateway to the Oberland for the earliest alpine travellers . |
| 6 | Carson looked for the earliest marked date , and started to read . |
| 7 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 8 | Lanier seems to have reckoned on lute accompaniment and the credit for the earliest English publication with figured bass must go to Martin Peerson ( c. 1572–1650 ) in his Mottects or Grave Chamber Musicke ( 1630 ) . |
| 9 | After weighing for the heaviest berry — duly recorded in the ledger by the recorder — any prizewinning berry is removed before they are weighed for the heaviest twelve awards and then again selected for the heaviest six . |
| 10 | For example , many a small child knows that to alleviate the pain and irritation of a nettle sting he need only reach for the nearest broad-leaved docken , ( Rumex obtusifolius ) and rub it on the offending part for instant relief . |
| 11 | It was getting dark and the wind had freshened , the rain gusting through the length of the shed so I decided that it was time to pack up and head for the nearest hospitable pub where I had been told I would be able to get a good meal of hot pie and peas . |
| 12 | I have to go to Dublin for the nearest indoor courts . |
| 13 | Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient . |
| 14 | Then it headed straight for the nearest suitable planet and effected a landing . |
| 15 | I collect snow and start off for the nearest dead tree with the big knife and an axe . |
| 16 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 17 | What happens if the federal Minister of Finance and the Minister of Finance for the largest internal state take different lines ? |
| 18 | The World Data Matrix ( Appendix A ) contains data for the largest 100 countries of the world and some of the African countries whose borders have been digitized are not included . |
| 19 | This is the operations base for the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe . |
| 20 | John Haymer 's do-it-yourself plane will be one of around 1,000 home-made aircract flying into Wroughton near Swindon this weekend for the largest such rally outside America . |
| 21 | The UK accounted for the largest downward revision for GDP in 1991 , from a 0.5 per cent rise to a 2 per cent fall , noted Freeman . |
| 22 | However , not enough was known of the biology of stocks to make control measures credible or effective , and whalers in international competition for declining stocks had no alternative but to press for the largest allowable quota , and hunt at maximum efficiency to attain the largest share . |
| 23 | Amino acid comparisons for the largest basic domain within the amino terminal regions of chicken , CHO , and Xenopus nucleolin . |
| 24 | The self-builder is still Britain 's largest housebuilder , with more than 10,000 finishes last year compared to 8,500 for the largest speculative developer . |
| 25 | Although 30 seconds , traditionally the most popular format , still accounts for the largest single share of commercial airtime , 20-second commercials are increasingly popular , and there has been a general tendency over the years for the average commercial to get shorter . |
| 26 | The surface temperatures range from below 3000 degrees Celsius for the coolest red stars up to well over 50000 degrees for the very energetic stars which are white or bluish . |
| 27 | Such divisions are artificial , for the smallest social unit , the family , is made up of people of different ages . |
| 28 | For the long observations ( b , c , e ) the power spectrum was estimated exactly as above , with periodogram estimates grouped 20 at a time , except for the lowest two points , which represent groups of 10 . |
| 29 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 30 | XVT also rejects the claim that such ‘ generic ’ windowing systems have to opt for the lowest common denominator approach in choosing a subset of common functionality between all the windowing systems . |