Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [noun pl] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the highest speeds the phase current is low , so the voltage drop across the series resistance is small and the applied voltage balances the induced voltage . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When they reached the nearest stairs the water was over Maggie 's ankles and still rising . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Lightbody 's omission must go down as one of the biggest boobs the NIBA have made in recent years . |
| 14 | Edward Coleman , second Professor ( Principal ) of the College , said Hunter was one of the best friends the College ever had . |
| 15 | ‘ It was one of the best classes the school has ever had , quite an academic one . |
| 16 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 17 | 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 . |