Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
2 | EDWIN POUNCEY sifts through the latest crate of weirdness from the States , including The Cramps , Green On Red and a farmhand singing the psychedelic blues |
3 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
4 | A lot of time and thought has been given to this and it looks like the best way of dealing with it is … because … . |
5 | At the moment the ground looks like the biggest construction site in south-east London , with an army of building workers — and volunteers — desperately trying to get it ready . |
6 | Since there are sequence similarities between the large subunits of prokaryotic and eukaryotic RNA polymerases ( 41,42,43,44,45 ) , it is likely that RAP30 interacts with the largest subunit of mammalian RNA polymerase II . |
7 | The Zakro temple lies in the lowest part of the valley , frequently half-submerged by the rising water-table , and threatened by further sea-level rises . |
8 | But the whole affair of Airbus and its new cousin lies in the deepest shadow that menaces Europe 's single-market project : the old-world urge to subsidise , to protect jobs and to create national champions remains depressingly intact . |
9 | David Morton , Inspector for Drama in the City of Leeds and a deservedly respected figure among our Drama Advisers , writes in the latest publication on the Arts by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ( 1982 ) of recent developments in Leeds . |
10 | She now lives in the longest village in England with her husband and two children , Sebastian and Octavia ( Octavia because she was born in eight minutes ) . |
11 | Everyone will be given a start and finish time and a small prize will go to the person who finishes in the fastest time . |
12 | The advance man knows the way to get VIPs in and out of the hall and how to manage their entrances and exits to the best effect . |
13 | The church stands on the highest point in the village . |
14 | To frame a happy picture , a timber clubhouse of imposing Swedish design stands on the highest point , a monument to local golfing aspirations . |
15 | A count is kept of the element in this array that corresponds to the latest word position . |
16 | Firstly the price of admission went up by 50pc at the beginning of the season a lot of money in an area which still has among the worst unemployment rates in mainland Britain ( and the lowest amount of disposable income per head of population if we are getting into statistics ) . |
17 | Of course I admit there 's an alcohol problem , but then again it tends to look worse than it is because the res is dry so everyone congregates at the nearest bar , which is two miles south , in Nebraska . |
18 | The opening chapter uses a slightly different method and looks at the greatest variable in improving — namely ourselves , since the way we approach and react to learning greatly affects the end result . |
19 | The Today 's Horse vet Mark Lucey BVM&S , MRCVS , looks at the latest update on TENDON INJURIES IN HORSES . |
20 | The wall can be found behind the Beran Filling Station , which lies at the highest point of the Bangor on Llanberis road ( B4547 ) , about 200 metres from the Deiniolen turn-off . |
21 | It starts at the highest office in the country — and works right through to the youngest , newest , employee . |
22 | Since LMC passes through the lowest point on LAC , a natural monopolist with steadily falling LAC must face LMC below LAC . |
23 | Then , against the advice of all , he embarks upon a final desperate attempt , which he later describes as the worst mistake he ever made . |
24 | The RUC moved in and triggered what Farrell describes as the worst rioting since 1935 . |
25 | At first the hedges were no more than double rows of seedlings protected by a rail on one side or both , but after twenty years the thorns had grown high enough to be cut and laid , a practice which William Marshall describes as the latest improvement in his Rural Economy of the Midland Counties in 1790 . |
26 | While stressing it is too early to predict the final outcome , the survey organiser , Jeremy Wilson , says in the latest issue of BTO News that ‘ significant results ’ have emerged from analysis of early findings . |
27 | My colleagues and I actually take no pleasure in agreeing to a rent increase which results in the highest public sector rates among our neighbouring districts er it is some eighteen percent higher than the average of eight local councils . |
28 | St Pancras typifies on the grandest scale the tendency for big city stations to be fronted by hotels . |
29 | Heat diffuses into the meat from the outside and the time , t , taken for the centre to reach a particular temperature depends on the smallest dimension , d , of the piece of meat ( in fact t d² ) . |
30 | NEW lower-off and abseil points are now in place at the reopened upper Craig Pen Trwyn , but the BMC emphasises that continued access depends on the strictest observance of the agreement . |