Example sentences of "world ['s] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big Audi has been developed to meet the world 's toughest emission standards with the help of a turbocharger and intercooler as well as exhaust gas recirculation and an advanced engine management system . |
| 2 | On April 28th Bill Clinton appointed Lee Brown , a former policeman , as America 's new ‘ drug tsar ’ , and thus leader of the world 's toughest prohibition programme ( see page 63 ) . |
| 3 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 4 | Many thanks to Colin Garratt for a superb show , and the BCRS wish him continuing success in his work documenting the world 's surviving steam heritage . |
| 5 | The world 's clearest sea water has been recorded in the Weddell Sea in early spring , clear enough for a Secchi disc to be seen at a depth of 79 m ( Gieskes et al . , |
| 6 | As the world 's longest-running film festival , we hope that our event can fulfil its role in Scotland and internationally in a city that film-makers and audiences from across the world want to visit . |
| 7 | At Guinness Publishing , the other Guinness Enterprises company , the ever-popular Guinness Book of Records has maintained its position as the world 's best-selling copyright book . |
| 8 | The prime attraction of investing in the world 's emerging stock markets is their much faster growth rates than those of developed countries . |
| 9 | The tot was raced by ambulance from Manchester to the world 's premier heart transplant unit at Harefield Hospital , Middlesex , when he was 24 hours old . |
| 10 | Keith insists that 's no more than any other home the same size , but he 's hoping the new buyer will care as much about the property as about the world 's threatened rain forests . |
| 11 | Their 10-wicket trouncing of England in the deciding Cornhill Test at the Oval yesterday more than confirmed they are not just the world 's one-day cricket kings . |
| 12 | Sawyer runs the world 's only leech farm and 75% of them are sold abroad , to hospitals , schools and universities . |
| 13 | Keith may be the world 's only specialist stick-maker , but he 's a strong believer in multi-skilling . |
| 14 | The three-man team fly MIG 21 fighters and are the world 's only combat display outfit . |
| 15 | As well as being the world 's only woman air show organiser Elly Sallingboe 's the proud owner of the Sally-B , star of the movie Memphis Belle . |
| 16 | This year , 1986 , the world 's greatest distance runners were in action : Said Aouita just missed a world record in the 2000 metres , and Steve Cram set a meeting record of 3 minutes 30.15 seconds . |
| 17 | See the famous plays of the Bard performed by one of the world 's greatest theatre companies . |
| 18 | Edited by Richard Evans , who oversees some of the world 's greatest tennis tournaments , the book offers a bird 's eye view of the Tour , not least because of some of the superb colour photography contained within it . |
| 19 | These elaborate rituals are nowhere more evident than in London 's Henry Wood Promenade Concerts , perhaps the world 's greatest music festival . |
| 20 | The Americans , whose still unfinished premises ( the result of Gulf War economies ) consist of a pair of recycled geodesic domes , promise the world 's greatest film show . |
| 21 | It is the world 's greatest trading bloc and , with economic and monetary union , it could have the world 's strongest currency . |
| 22 | Two of the world 's greatest con men … ’ |
| 23 | Take the time I was interviewing the world 's greatest talking bird on The David Frost Show in New York . |
| 24 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 25 | The almost impenetrable Great Sand Sea of western Egypt and adjacent parts of Libya forms one of the world 's greatest dune areas . |
| 26 | Life in New York , working for one of the world 's greatest auction houses , may seem glamorous , but as Christopher Hartop explains , it can involve scholarship , tact , diplomacy and hard work . |
| 27 | Among the other guests lunching were Mr Paul Marmin the managing director of Boucheron , and Mrs Marmin ; Mr and Mrs Hamish Renton , he is a director of Boucheron ; Mr and Mrs Eric Arnott , he is one of the world 's greatest eye surgeons , and had flown over to America that Thursday on a professional trip and flown home on Saturday . |
| 28 | He settled in Denver where he worked with Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart in a group that later became known as the World 's Greatest Jazz Band . |
| 29 | This study compares regulation in two of the world 's greatest stock markets . |
| 30 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |