Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour should be allowed for this and the fullest opportunity to explore appropriate devolution , questions of identity , and resources and relationship both to other agencies and to the corporate body . |
| 2 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |
| 3 | The order of ascending scores was such that the greatest benefit to the company attracted the highest score ( Tables 8.1 and 8.2 ) . |
| 4 | The pace of technological change is such that the latest generation of machines is now capable of drawing graphs , working out algebraic formulae , correcting spelling mistakes and communicating with computers outside the examination room . |
| 5 | A series of degradations were performed on the lattice produced such that the worst quality lattice , Q50 , retained just 260 of the correct words as alternatives . |
| 6 | The Tories might have got away with that but the latest revelation that the Home Office trawled through 25-year-old confidential files to try to dig up dirt on Mr Clinton is as outrageous as it is mind-boggling . |
| 7 | The spike is sufficient for all but the thickest ice , which requires a tool like a giant auger . |
| 8 | It is things like that which are really destructive to writers , who are often brave about illness and pain , and resilient after all but the deepest grief . |
| 9 | It is most widely used in Pakistan , and all but the poorest quality Mori Bokharas are normally given a lustre wash . |
| 10 | The markets for the major index futures and the shares included in such an index are usually highly liquid , and so there is likely to be little adverse price movement for all but the largest arbitrage transactions . |
| 11 | They eat all but the smallest prey by tearing the carcases apart before ingestion , holding the body of the prey in their talons and tearing small parts away with their hooked beaks . |
| 12 | For all but the smallest prey , Nucella must penetrate the victim 's shell before paralysing it by injecting a narcotic . |
| 13 | Current trends in tourism indicate that the demand for all but the highest standard of caravan accommodation , is now on the wane , and the message from tourist consultants to site operators is that they must quickly go ‘ up market ’ by significantly up- grading the standard of accommodation and associated facilities on offer . |
| 14 | The syntactic component could look at all the word-pairs for each tag ending at some vertex in the graph and discard all but the highest scoring , based on the acoustic scores and the pair-wise probabilities , since , given this parsing method , no later information is relevant to the decision . |
| 15 | Word pairs were scored on acoustic-phonetic probability and syntactic tag transition probability and all but the highest scoring hypotheses were pruned from the graph at each decision point . |
| 16 | The Ilhéu de Fora , with the lighthouse on it , is separated from the land by a 165m wide channel through which the boat to Porto Santo passes in all but the roughest weather . |
| 17 | On this interpretation , all but the grimmest traffic jam seems better than waiting on a cold , wet platform for the train that does n't arrive . |
| 18 | Until 1974 the British House of Commons had virtually given up all but the slightest influence in the disposition of executive proposals . |
| 19 | All but the simplest PC LANs are likely to have a central computer acting as a file or database server , dedicated to looking after the data on behalf of all the desktop machines . |
| 20 | These knowledge sources are essential to the comprehension of all but the simplest discourse , and hence present a considerable acquisition problem for computers . |
| 21 | This approach is best suited to the study of small to moderate amounts of data but its merits have probably been exaggerated since even skilled statisticians need minutes rather than seconds to respond sensibly to output from all but the simplest analysis steps . |
| 22 | Their widespread success convinced all but the bravest computer makers ( notably Apple , though even it is now seeking to make its machines compatible with Windows ) to join the DOS and Windows club . |
| 23 | The man regarded by many as the best wicket keeper in the world has won back his place in the England cricket team . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , among economists , the jury is still out on whether regional trade blocs and bilateral trade agreements are any more than a second-best strategy . |
| 25 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 26 | At least , things happened there ; it was obvious to Schaffer that his presence in Langstone was nothing more than the merest nod towards protocol , but Stoneley had refused to let him return and make the police withdrawal complete . |
| 27 | This involves first cutting the panel down to slightly more than the largest measurement , and then supporting it in place , so that it is spaced slightly away from the wall or ceiling , but is exactly vertical or horizontal . |
| 28 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 29 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |
| 30 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |