Example sentences of "[noun prp] as 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | AUSSIE cricket legend Bill O'Reilly , rated by Sir Donald Bradman as the best bowler he ever faced , has died aged 86 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Raven regarded Karl Barth as the worst menace to sane rational thinking . |
| 10 | Palestine disappeared from the map and Arab nationalism over the next twenty years emphasized the recovery of Palestine as the foremost duty of every Arab state . |
| 11 | Some treat Jesus as the greatest medium who ever lived while others accept him as ‘ the psychic Son of God ’ . |
| 12 | Judged on that basis , the analysis in the policy document suggested Friern as the best prospect and Claybury the second best . |
| 13 | Also on the baby hit-list were cut-price Kwiksave as the worst supermarket chain , Debenhams as worst store , Wimpy the worst restaurant and the now-defunct Dan-Air as worst airline . |
| 14 | Songs like Heroin , Venus in Furs and Sister Ray firmly established Lou as the sleaziest bard on the block . |
| 15 | He sees the showdown between himself and Lewis of West Ham as the likeliest outcome of two virtual eliminators in the autumn : |
| 16 | Cottee became the British record signing when his £2,050,000 move from West Ham to Everton just edged him ahead of Paul Gascoigne as the costliest player . |
| 17 | And Mr Ashdown has been projected in photo opportunities across Britain as the best leader the country will never have . |
| 18 | Market share was up to 12.6% , ranking Airtours as the third-largest tour operator in Britain behind Thomson ( 32% ) and Owners Abroad ( 12.9% ) . |
| 19 | LINFORD CHRISTIE is going for a golden Grand Slam in a bid to rival Carl Lewis as the greatest sprinter on earth . |
| 20 | Tylers the Company that won the tender when Crawley District Council put it out of a bunch of gangsters and on the first of February Crawley District Council awarded under C C T their refuse contract to Tylers as the cheapest tenderer . |
| 21 | It was developed to keep all aspects ‘ under one roof ’ in view of the fact that , outside London , Belfast is second to Manchester as the largest cargo airport in the UK . |
| 22 | Alan Smith had just been appointed editor and was about to change the whole face of the paper , ditching those who revered Cilla as the greatest swinger on the block . |
| 23 | With three per cent of its gross national product devoted to research and development , the country ranks with Japan as the heaviest investor of science in the world . |
| 24 | This leaves the US as the nearest thing the world has to a globocop , the only major power able to project its military forces on a global scale . |
| 25 | The extremists among the Continental school argue that all our military resources should be concentrated upon the defence of Western Europe as the best way to ensure the country 's continued survival . |
| 26 | Touting France as the foremost software preserve in Europe , a bunch of French companies and research and development institutes under the aegis of the French Scientific Mission will be in Silicon Valley June 23–24 trolling for partnership opportunities including joint research and development agreements , joint patent development , licensing and strategic alliance . |
| 27 | In a long-awaited move , the former Social Democrats ' leader endorsed John Major as the best man to fight Britain 's corner against moves towards a federal Europe . |
| 28 | Los Angeles is set to take over from New York as the busiest port in the world . |
| 29 | Many of them used to meet regularly at Shirreff 's wine bar under Ludgate Circus where , despite a lifelong stammer , Lewis more than held his own ; he was indeed described by Belloc as the wittiest man he had ever known . |
| 30 | On another occasion he went to the extreme of adulation , describing Mosley as the greatest man God had ever created . |