Example sentences of "of [art] [adj -est] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Some of the thickest sequences of Jurassic-Cretaceous section are known from the Sole P ; t Basin area where up to 6000 ft ( 1830 m ) may be recognised . |
2 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
3 | As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series . |
4 | The seneschal had told Quiss that the air circulation system was powered by one of the lowest ranks of the castle 's diminutive attendants ; they walked round inside treadmills linked to big watermill-like fans . |
5 | on last year , we now have one of the lowest growths in manufactured output in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries , and 3,000 manufacturing jobs are being lost every day , why did the Government fail yesterday to take any action to bring about a recovery in wealth-creating manufacturing industry ? |
6 | This gives an annual range of only 8.8°C , one of the lowest ranges in Britain . |
7 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
8 | Thus together we became one of the lowest forms of animal life in the Royal Air Force , the most junior — a very thin single ring — but , nevertheless , Leonard Cheshire had a stamp of his very own . |
9 | Britain has one of the lowest proportions of elected female representatives in the Western world . |
10 | Will he agree that inward investment is due to the activities of the Welsh Development Agency , some of the lowest wages in Britain and high levels of skills , and that it is the quality of the Welsh work force as much as anything else that has brought inward investment into Wales ? |
11 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
12 | It was one of the lowest points of his career — perhaps the lowest since Dakar in September 1940 . |
13 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
14 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
15 | Statistics show the number of accidents dropping 15pc since 1981 to give the region one of the lowest rates for fatal and serious accidents . |
16 | He points out , however , that Essex has one of the lowest rates of permanent exclusion in the eastern region — Bedfordshire 's rate is four times higher — and the LEA has worked to help schools adopt effective pastoral care . |
17 | It has one of the lowest rates of cancelled operations in the country . |
18 | It is correct that Britain has one of the lowest rates of corporate tax in the developed world , something from which our businesses , large and small , have benefited enormously over the years . |
19 | However , Ulster has one of the lowest rates of breast-feeding in Europe , he says . |
20 | My little local survey drove me to the conclusion that the Woolwich , in fact , offers some of the lowest rates on the market . |
21 | Essex has witnessed a significant increase in pupil exclusions in both primary and secondary schools , but still has one of the lowest rates in the region . |
22 | Deaths per 10 000 vehicles fell from 3.0 to 2.1 in 1990 and 1.9 in 1991 ( <50% of Smeed 's prediction ) ; the mortality is now well below that in Britain ( 2.3 in 1989 ) , which has one of the lowest rates in Europe . |
23 | The fundamental problem here is that , as in many other countries , prison reform occupies one of the lowest rungs on the ladder of political priorities . |
24 | Chesarynth remembered her sister 's stories of the lowest levels at Nutristem where subliminals ate away the whole shift from your mind . |
25 | But the government shielded consumers from the worst excesses of inflation by reducing the community charge burden , and businesses kept their price rises down to one of the lowest levels for 24 years . |
26 | It is because until recently this country had one of the lowest levels of unemployment in Europe , so the increase here has , regrettably , been greater . |
27 | Sour note economic recession has said it would produce only 4.2 million tonnes of sugar this year , one of the lowest harvests in recent history . |
28 | And that was 40% off what was already , after almost 15 years of economic decline , one of the lowest standards of living in Europe . |
29 | Metallica have a no-compromise attitude towards volume on stage , and you 're renowned for being one of the loudest bands on the planet . |
30 | The award for brand of the year in services raised one of the loudest cheers of the evening as Virgin Atlantic trounced archrival BA , further fuelling their ‘ You stab my back and I 'll stab yours ’ feud . |