Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps unwittingly , the new statue hints at a deeper truth underpinning the hardline triumph : the worker , the peasant and the intellectual gaze wistfully towards the Forbidden City , the grandest monument to the genius of Chinese civilisation , but the soldier has his eyes fixed in a different direction — down the Avenue of Eternal Peace towards Zhongnanhai , the walled compound where party leaders live and work . |
| 2 | If you ask me said Mrs Bird as she invited every one in for a hot mince pies fresh from the oven that 's the nicest start to a Christmas day any one can possibly wish for but then she added and with general agreement with a bear like Paddington about the house life is always full of surprises . |
| 3 | The Croft monument has been described as ‘ possibly the finest memorial to the RCAF that there is in Great Britain ’ . |
| 4 | From dating studies on archaeological ceramics , we know that the environment does not make the largest contribution to the annual radiation dose of ceramics , and a likely range of environmental radiation values can be assumed in estimating the TL age . |
| 5 | The & sup222 ; Rn isotope provides the largest contribution to the total radiation dose received by the population ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 6 | The latter explains why the Summit is being held in Brazil — the country with the largest contribution to the earth 's oxygen supply . |
| 7 | The solution is strongly opposed by the R & D staff , who usually make the largest contribution to the project in terms of effort . |
| 8 | Usually , the largest contribution to the energy of the turbulence is made by eddies large enough to be oriented in this way but small enough to be within one part of the mean velocity profile . |
| 9 | The variance of the distribution of the intervention rates did not change significantly during the study : the ratio of the largest variance to the smallest one ( F m a x ) was 1.7 for caesarean sections , 2.6 for epidural analgesia , and 3.3 for forceps and vacuum extractions . |
| 10 | The clearest testimony to the level of exchange being carried on between England and the Continent , especially in transactions involving gold , is the existence of sets of balances accompanied by weights . |
| 11 | The clearest opposition to the achievement of a measure of integration has been from the Roman catholic church . |
| 12 | Farther on in his dispatch , Haig wrote : ‘ … this unavoidable delay in the development of our offensive was of the greatest service to the enemy . |
| 13 | The main difference between them is that private media are used mainly to transmit commercial data and documents , often under conditions of extreme security , while public ( mass ) media are used mainly to broadcast ‘ entertainment ’ , always under conditions of the greatest visibility to the paying public . |
| 14 | In this Marx has been proved by subsequent anthropology to be quite right , and many anthropologists would argue that the attribution of the profit motive to people who do not have it has been the greatest hindrance to an understanding of pre-capitalist societies . |
| 15 | But the greatest blow to the dictates of fashion on women 's dress came with the World War I. Although Laura Ashley had , unconsciously , much in common with the nineteenth-century dress reformers it is ironic that their efforts towards change were entangled inextricably with the organized struggles for the rights of women ; women , to be taken seriously , had to dress in a more robust , sensible manner , they stated — an argument amply demonstrated by their usefulness in wartime . |
| 16 | First resort to the Convention , subject to the eventual overriding of foreign objections under the Federal Rules , was characterised as ‘ the greatest insult to a civil law country 's sovereignty ’ . |
| 17 | Failing the development of a vaccine for human beings to protect themselves against malaria , or a ‘ one-shot ’ radical drug , or a long-lasting preventative medicine , the control of the mosquito vector must produce the greatest benefit to the greatest number in the shortest time . |
| 18 | The order of ascending scores was such that the greatest benefit to the company attracted the highest score ( Tables 8.1 and 8.2 ) . |
| 19 | Bentham is associated with the maxim of the greatest happiness to the greatest number and would subscribe to the view of maximizing the sum of utility from income . |
| 20 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |
| 21 | He said spiralling public sector borrowing was the greatest threat to a sustained economic recovery . |
| 22 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 23 | Indeed , it is the fact of recession which rather suggests that the greatest threat to the persistence of corporatist arrangements may come , not from the Left and labour , but from the Right and from the industrial capitalists themselves — those interests , that is , that the Left have seen as having benefited most from corporatism . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend further underline that the greatest threat to the economic prosperity of both the Province and the Republic of Ireland is terrorism ? |
| 25 | In his opening speech party chairman Aleksandur Lilov declared that factional splits posed the greatest threat to the party 's future . |
| 26 | It then won a further two seats in by-elections in early 1992 , leading to the belief that it would constitute the greatest threat to the LDP at the 1992 elections . |
| 27 | Perhaps the greatest tribute to the system 's aesthetic capabilities was provided by the ex-editor of Classical Music who , some weeks after the changeover from traditional to electronic , asked Tony Gamble why they had changed back from ITC Clearface to the original Times . |
| 28 | They are the votes which , usually making the greatest contribution to a successful candidate 's quota , are the most influential . |
| 29 | The Cathedrals of Paris , Laon , Reims , Amiens , Chartres have all been likened to the Parthenon in Athens in that they , collectively and individually , present the greatest contribution to the architecture of their time — Gothic — and became prototypes for churches all over Europe . |
| 30 | The annual award is for the trainee deemed to have made the greatest contribution to the Trainee Solicitors Group . |