Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as soon as Nate heard about the latest strike , that was it . |
| 2 | Top awards are given for the best net and best gross scores with over £200 in cash prizes . |
| 3 | He shows , for instance , that " A branch curved downwards over the water " could have easily occurred in the language of Lok , while " He had very quickly broken off the lowest branches " would be highly deviant . |
| 4 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |
| 5 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 6 | The climate sensitivity , T 2x , solar forcing scaling factor , β , and percentage of the observed temperature variance explained for the best-fit simulations associated with the greenhouse-forcing-alone , greenhouse-plus-solar and solar-forcing-alone analyses . |
| 7 | She inched towards him , daring him to move before she had shaken off the latest man to accost her . |
| 8 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 9 | Today , nearly 20 years after his death , Jim Clark is still remembered , and generally regarded as the greatest driver of the post-war era . |
| 10 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 11 | Certainly the Devon , in the late eighteenth century , was described by William Marshall ( 1796 ) as being ‘ in size somewhat below the desirable point for the heavier works of husbandry ’ , making up for this deficiency with its agility and exertion so that it was regarded as the best worker in Britain . |
| 12 | Since the dominant conception of pollution control work is utterly pragmatic , doing the job is regarded as the best way of learning the job ( cf. |
| 13 | Word of mouth is regarded as the best kind of advertising . |
| 14 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 15 | The Board held that , on the somewhat complex facts of the particular case , it mattered not whether the subsequent promise was regarded as the best evidence of the benefit intended to be conferred or as the positive bargain , the benefit on the faith of which the promise was given . |
| 16 | Just down the road is the fantastic club , ‘ Future Pace ’ , which is regarded as the best disco on the island , with its ritzy piano bar and restaurant on the roof terrace . |
| 17 | Excluding the impact of mortgage rates , regarded as the best guide to the underlying trend , inflation rose 0.1 points to 5.8 per cent in September , which suggests that high interest rates have yet to subdue inflation significantly . |
| 18 | Generally regarded as the best looker of the bunch , the estate has a lot more going for it besides . |
| 19 | Ramsey turned to study law , which then was regarded as the best training for a future politician . |
| 20 | Kirtana was regarded as the poorest man in the village — but he was fiercely proud and once he had lost his land still refused to work on someone else 's . |
| 21 | But in all other respects Tonga is more rightfully regarded as the closest place and has an International Date Line Hotel in the main town , Nuku'alofa , to prove it . |
| 22 | The AS/400 is by a long way IBM Corp 's most successful current product line yet Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc , generally regarded as the largest player in the AS/400 applications market , seems to be less than confident about the future of the line . |
| 23 | For example , changes were implemented in an attempt to ease the problems of London 's Docklands , generally regarded as the largest area of urban dereliction in England . |
| 24 | This means that the warehouses need not be so large , volumetrically speaking , to house a given number of pallets , although 2,000 spaces is generally regarded as the smallest quantity to justify automation . |
| 25 | This award is significant in that it is regarded as the highest accolade within the weighing equipment calibration field and is only the seventh certificate to be presented within the UK . |
| 26 | The French designed the model head station , the Gare de l'Est ( 1852 ) , long regarded as the finest station in the world . |
| 27 | During the war , the conical Triumph nib arrived , still regarded as the finest nib ever made . |
| 28 | He is justly regarded as the earliest master of the German solo song with keyboard — Positiv or Klavizimbel — accompaniment . |
| 29 | Governor Mario Cuomo of New York , widely regarded as the strongest candidate the Democrats could field against Bush , announced on Oct. 11 that he was thinking about running for the presidential nomination . |
| 30 | The HNS , widely regarded as the strongest opposition party in Croatia , withdrew from the government on May 14 in support of Misetic 's resignation . |