Example sentences of "of the worst " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Saracen 's Head at Towcester , for example , a recent proposal to historicise the pub involved extensive destruction of genuine historic fabric and the introduction of the worst cliches of ‘ traditional ’ pub detail , such as bulls-eye glass and copper lanterns . |
| 2 | Being directly overhead , the field is one of the worst positions from which to extricate yourself because you have to fly blind , away from the field , for quite a long time to get out to the side for a reasonable base leg . |
| 3 | The night of 16 October saw some of the worst storms across the south of England for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | The gap left by the withdrawal of the worst examples has been filled with Class 312s , and ex-London Midland 310s . |
| 5 | He is far from being one of the outer world , but in reading his work we constantly feel the influence upon him of his reading of the worst English poets . |
| 6 | This is more than triple the national average , itself one of the worst in the developed world . |
| 7 | LORD ALDINGTON , a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and Warden of Winchester School , was falsely branded a war criminal on the scale of the worst butchers of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia , his counsel , Charles Gray QC , told a High Court libel jury yesterday . |
| 8 | With Ostpolitik and acceptance of the division of Germany in the late Sixties the church removed one of the worst bones of contention by leaving the pan-German Evangelical Church . |
| 9 | But a God who can bring good out of the worst of evils is wholly in control . |
| 10 | The years 1921–2 did in fact cover one of the worst periods in the economic fortunes of the Smolensk guberniia . |
| 11 | One of the worst features is the number or enfants trouvés — orphans or children abandoned by their parents , who are found in the streets . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , by the time of the Queen 's jubilee that summer there was some sense that a good deal of the worst might be over . |
| 13 | Despite all this , Fanon deploys some of the worst prejudices that psychoanalysis has been used to reinforce : ‘ All the Negrophobic women I have known had abnormal sex lives … |
| 14 | Handkerchiefs held in place by the nose clips of sunglasses alleviated some of the worst effects but the speed of burning was staggering . |
| 15 | It is , we hear , one of the worst winters on record , with heavy autumn rain saturating the ground and early winter cold — the cold and snow that caught Nathan and I in Tromsdalen — causing the ground to freeze early . |
| 16 | Racism was not wiped out when Lyon was minister , on the contrary some of the worst cases of human suffering at the hands of Immigration Officers occurred in his regime , but he did occasionally act with some humanity . |
| 17 | Pigs do n't have a high public image and the dry sow stall is one of the worst kinds of factory farming . |
| 18 | Under the new hygiene regulations fryers are likely to come under close scrutiny because traditionally the job of cleaning them is one of the worst in the kitchen . |
| 19 | In most theatres , including Covent Garden , the view from the Royal Box is one of the worst in the house . |
| 20 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |
| 21 | It is a contender for the title of the Worst Building in the World . |
| 22 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 23 | Finally , it is a pity that a Bill designed to end restrictive practices should extend one of the worst in the book : but barristers ' immunity from negligence claims looks set to be extended to solicitors . |
| 24 | A survey by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) predicts that the UK will be one of the worst performing nations next year , and warns that a recession will be a real risk if interest rates rise again . |
| 25 | Nature conservation action stands to become seriously weakened in all three countries , but especially in Scotland , which has one of the worst records of any westernised country in nature conservation . |
| 26 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 27 | But the UK market is still a long way ahead of the worst performers in Datastream 's league table , Hong Kong and Switzerland . |
| 28 | The heavy use of pesticides and chemicals in agriculture in Azerbaijan and the Central Asian republics is blamed for the high incidence of leukaemia , some of the worst infant mortality rates in the world , and liver disorders and cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 29 | The city banks ( Japan 's version of commercial banks ) were some of the worst culprits . |
| 30 | Is it too much to hope that , in spite of the worst excesses of this year , Mozart will at last be allowed to grow up ? |