Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | ( Dates compiled and researched by Robert Rudhall with the best information available at the time of going to press . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That was Courtaulds ' buoyant message to the market when it launched Tencel on the latest stage of its pioneering journey in December . |
| 14 | The next day we ghosted into Makassar on the faintest breeze . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For five hours I had thought about and written about Machu Picchu at the highest level of my consciousness . |
| 18 | The memory of the fear induced by Matilda 's vindictive rage spurred Isabel towards the nearest door . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Raven regarded Karl Barth as the worst menace to sane rational thinking . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As the mountain loomed over Rincewind like the biggest fly-swatter in the universe he saw a cave mouth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I sent him to the north of Scotland on the nearest thing you can get to a wild goose chase — to try to see our country 's most elusive bird , the capercaillie . ’ |
| 25 | Gavin Hills on the latest lifestyle novel for twentysomethings |
| 26 | The Scots ' intervention was motivated almost entirely by religion , the price for their help being a commitment by parliament to introduce a Scottish-style Presbyterian church system into England at the earliest opportunity . |
| 27 | The omissions are always noted here in Korea and they add to the sensitivity and fear of the Korean Government and Korean citizens that the United States Government is not fixed in its determination to assist Korea and will abandon Korea at the earliest opportunity … |
| 28 | Sometimes , and Katherine did n't know which was worse , she would stamp round and rail , flailing out at Katherine at the slightest excuse . |
| 29 | Between them they turned Alfa Romeo into the biggest name in motor racing in the 1920s . |
| 30 | During the ensuing twenty years his energetic and far-sighted management brought great prosperity and turned Pickfords into the largest carrying business in the country . |