Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these countries , West Germany as the highest consumption of spirits at about 8 litres a year , Portugal the lowest at 2 litres . |
| 2 | In the second half Giannini again created the best moment , first intercepting a pass , then setting up Serena for the clearest chance of the match . |
| 3 | Colonel Hamilton told his men that the Prime Minister had described the second battle of the Marne as the greatest victory in the history of the war . |
| 4 | AUSSIE cricket legend Bill O'Reilly , rated by Sir Donald Bradman as the best bowler he ever faced , has died aged 86 . |
| 5 | Of the air-delivered systems , Skybolt was technically the most advanced and was seen by the RAF as the best weapon for extending the life of the V Force . |
| 6 | INTERVIEW / The merchant 's tale : Playwright Arnold Wesker tells Paul Arnott about the latest production of his jinxed Shylock |
| 7 | Back in the thirteenth century , Marco Polo described Bukhara as the finest city in all Persia and Tabriz as the most splendid city in the province ( of Iraq ) , neither of which corresponds to our contemporary understanding . |
| 8 | The decision is seen in Vilnius as the biggest step yet on the road to the complete independence of Lithuania , although Mr Brazauskas was careful to draw a distinction between party and state relations . |
| 9 | In 1989 , however , Greece had replaced Portugal as the poorest EC country in terms of GNP per capita . |
| 10 | They appeared soon afterwards in the United States as the biggest institutions ever built , incarcerating as many as 10,000 people . |
| 11 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 12 | On the American side the decisive development had been the loss of confidence in the radical regime of Mohammed Mussadeq as the best defence of Iran against communism . |
| 13 | Ever year on the Saturday nearest the longest day some 72 golfers ( four on each tee ) commence a round of golf started by a shotgun fired at 5 a.m. ( 5.30 in 1986 ) . |
| 14 | During the past decade , the zealous attempt to rid public buildings in the United States of the flimsiest traces of asbestos , and the personal damage claims that have simultaneously multiplied , have been financed to a substantial degree by the people at Lloyd 's . |
| 15 | ( Dates compiled and researched by Robert Rudhall with the best information available at the time of going to press . |
| 16 | Harold 's secret was well guarded and the Cabinet gathered at No. 10 on the following Tuesday without the slightest inkling of the dramatic news they were to hear . |
| 17 | That was Courtaulds ' buoyant message to the market when it launched Tencel on the latest stage of its pioneering journey in December . |
| 18 | The next day we ghosted into Makassar on the faintest breeze . |
| 19 | We expect to conclude a sale of the Princess of Wales hospital at RAF Ely at the earliest opportunity commensurate with our responsibility to maximise disposal receipts . |
| 20 | A main aim of that rescheduling had been to allow Gorbachev at the earliest opportunity to push through reforms and install a more sympathetic central committee . |
| 21 | For five hours I had thought about and written about Machu Picchu at the highest level of my consciousness . |
| 22 | The memory of the fear induced by Matilda 's vindictive rage spurred Isabel towards the nearest door . |
| 23 | Quite apart from the fact that Hopper 's movie was eventually virtually sabotaged by the studio ( or himself , depending on which side you were on ) , director Bob Rafelson had a good script which would without question consolidate Nicholson as the finest exponent of counter-culture appeal available anywhere in America in that year . |
| 24 | Raven regarded Karl Barth as the worst menace to sane rational thinking . |
| 25 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |
| 26 | As the mountain loomed over Rincewind like the biggest fly-swatter in the universe he saw a cave mouth . |
| 27 | Irving and Hilgendorf 's ( 1975 ) data ( table 5.6 ) broadly support Gasson , who found , using a rather finer regionalization , that the parts of England with the highest proportions of full-time agricultural workers in tied accommodation were the South West and the South East . |
| 28 | The most impressive performance of the evening came in a field event , where Alison Grey won the shot for Scotland with the best distance by a British competitor indoors this winter , 15.70m . |
| 29 | TOGETHER : Nesta and Frank before the latest revelations |
| 30 | Their function was to advise the Plantagenets on the best means of sustaining their interests as dukes of Aquitaine and counts of Ponthieu before the Paris parlement . |