Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although admittedly criticizing some of his own work Hewitt ( 1983 ) believes that the perspective of this dominant view could be the single greatest impediment to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of natural disasters research , because it fails to recognize how the roots and occurrence of contemporary disasters depend upon the way ‘ normal everyday life turns out to have become abnormal ’ . |
| 2 | Yet , at the same time , why do we assume that a technological civilization will have the slightest desire to quest among the stars ? |
| 3 | The administration 's strongest criticism to date of Mobutu came in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee on Nov. 7 by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen , who accused Mobutu of " an apparent unwillingness to distinguish between state finances and his own , a failing that lies at the heart of Zaïre 's dismal economic record " . |
| 4 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 5 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 6 | MIGHTY MOGUL yesterday cruised through his toughest test to date with a tremendously impressive victory in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton . |
| 7 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |
| 8 | Not exactly the opposite end of the scale , but rather a complementary event designed to include a wider range of objects with an emphasis on attractive decorative objects at reasonable prices , the Fine Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia celebrates its twentieth year of existence with the largest event to date from 3 to 13 June . |
| 9 | This is much the sternest test to date of trainer Andy Turnell 's confidence that Country Member is a top staying handicapper in the making . |
| 10 | In this case a child 's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles . |
| 11 | In his first televised address since the end of the Gulf War , French President Mitterrand on March 3 issued his clearest call to date for an independent Palestinian state . |
| 12 | Suzanne 's individual score of 35.05 , her highest score to date in a National Championship final , gave her 15th place overall and sixth place in the under 18 section . |
| 13 | It was also made up of a hospital in Jerusalem which cares for both Arabs and Jews , an Ambulance Air Wing with 60 volunteer pilots and 50 planes throughout Europe , and an aeromedical section to return people to the nearest hospital to home from the scene of an accident again on a Europe-wide basis . |
| 14 | A lay brother came over and took us into the abbey church to hear morning mass and , believe me , for the glory is now gone , the abbey church of Glastonbury was the nearest thing to heaven on earth . |
| 15 | The area in front of Newgate , Athelstan thought , must be the nearest thing to hell on earth . |
| 16 | Morgantina Studies , Volume IV : The Protohistoric Settlement on the Cittadella by Robert Leighton ( £50 , $90 ) is the fullest study to date of this protohistoric settlement in Sicily , prior to the creation of the Greek town above it . |
| 17 | The new concept of form reached its fullest expression to date in the work of Picasso done at Horta de San Juan , and some sheets of drawings which date from the early days of his return to Paris , show Picasso methodically applying the Cubist concept of form to objects of different kinds and shapes : to a human head , a box , an apple and so on . |
| 18 | The British team , seen below , had their best result to date at a world event , gaining sixth place . |
| 19 | The latest round on the Church Bridge length of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rugeley saw Steve Collins ( Team Uniprint ) gain his best win to date with 4–5–10 of ruffe to beat his team mate , Tony Keeling , on 3–3–4 . |
| 20 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 21 | For the best way to job-hunt in Europe is by going to the country of your choice for a few weeks and signing up with several private employment agencies . |
| 22 | And you see they say that erm snowdrops really want The best way to sort of erm increase them is just sort of |
| 23 | A major counter-demonstration , organized on Sept. 24 by the Democratic Charter Movement , involved a march by some 50,000 people to the National Assembly , and other marches in provincial towns , the largest protest to date against the recent rise of the far right and the related increase in racist attacks . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police . |
| 25 | However , he has his easiest task to date at Lingfield and can gain a confidence-boosting victory in the Marsh Green Maiden . |