Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE youngest defendant to appear in the dock at the Old Bailey in more than 150 years was cleared yesterday of killing a blind 93-year-old widow . |
| 2 | Geldard , a winger , holds the record , with Ken Roberts of Wrexham , for being the youngest player to appear in the League . |
| 3 | One of the Australians worked in real estate in Hong Kong : ‘ The toughest place to deal in the whole world . ’ |
| 4 | They found their bedroom the hardest room to decorate in the new style . |
| 5 | The grandest MP to remain in the Commons today is Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , brother of the Duke of Hamilton , a former Oxford boxer and author . |
| 6 | Dishwater fluids are probably the biggest containers to arrive in the kitchen . |
| 7 | When we did The Taming of the Shrew , every time Petruchio yelled — and he had a fine voice — all the peacocks answered , and on the opening night I could feel my neighbour shaking with laughter because the peacocks were all jostling for the best places to roost in the trees . |
| 8 | For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage . |
| 9 | I believe she was very young — just a little thing — but it must have seemed the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 10 | Of course , it had n't so far done anything of the kind , and he had to arrive at the best thing to do in the circumstances . |
| 11 | The mushroom polyps are ( by coral standards ) among the easiest coelenterates to maintain in the aquarium ( though there are various situations in which they will not thrive ) . |
| 12 | At the latest hypermarket to open in the North-East you can buy 13,000 different food items from all over the world , whatever the season — strawberries at Christmas , plums in spring , nuts in May and new baby vegetables at any time . |
| 13 | School trips with an element of risk Four English teenagers are the latest pupils to die in the course of ‘ outdoor education ’ . |
| 14 | It might not be what the average first-time buyer had in mind , but the latest property to go in the window at Hobbs and Chambers estate agents is sure to catch the eye of passers-by . |
| 15 | IT SEEMS that Roland Franklin , the latest unbundler to appear in the UK , has made a fatal error in the preparation of his £697m break-up bid for stationery and packaging group DRG . |