Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This month we 're starting a trial to discover the best-tasting strawberries . |
| 2 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 3 | One of Niki 's tactics in that elaborate form of board game called ‘ driver negotiations ’ ( i.e. how does a driver get the best car and the most money ? ) was always to talk to a lot of teams , hinting , not so subtly , that ‘ if the package was right ’ , he could be seduced . |
| 4 | ‘ Only with patience , persistence and a willingness to approach the highest levels did I get the information and even then I sometimes failed , ’ she said . |
| 5 | The demand fur such a common culture rests either on an altogether over-optimistic belief in the educability of the majority that is certainly not justified by experience or on a willingness to surrender the highest standards of taste and judgement to the incessant demands of mediocrity . |
| 6 | Nevertheless there is at least one sense in which The Lord of the Rings can claim ‘ mythic ’ status , which is as ‘ a story embodying the deepest feelings of a particular society at a particular time ’ . |
| 7 | For drama and excitement the Ryder Cup proved once again that it is the ultimate golfing event , and for me it was a privilege to witness the finest players in the world performing under the most intense pressure . |
| 8 | Earlier in the day , while looking for the swimming-pool , I had found myself in a park containing the largest number of fire-engines I had ever seen . |
| 9 | At worst , they are a facade hiding the worst excesses of management . |
| 10 | MAUREEN Baines gave a flipping good performance when she took part in a contest to find the best pancake tosser in the North-East . |
| 11 | DALLAS lawyer Bryan Garner has started a contest to find the worst examples of legal writing in Texas . |
| 12 | He has now launched a scholarship to find the best young cricketers in England . |
| 13 | ELTON John and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin have signed a contract with Time Warner in Los Angeles that will give them a £26m advance the largest cash advance in music publishing history . |
| 14 | The annual award is normally given to a boss providing the worst pay and conditions but because of unemployment no one is making nominations . |
| 15 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |
| 16 | it was touch and go for a time and when Leicester hit back with an equaliser from Whitlow a draw seemed the best they could hope for … |
| 17 | We 're , we 're paid to do a job to get the best for everything . |
| 18 | Anyone who remembers the magic of the wah way infested '60s , or indeed the brilliance of The Jam is probably far too old and knackered to go to gigs , so here 's a chance to grab the best of both worlds , all in one band ! |
| 19 | Anyone who remembers the magic of the wah way infested '60s , or indeed the brilliance of The Jam is probably far too old and knackered to go to gigs , so here 's a chance to grab the best of both worlds , all in one band ! |
| 20 | Gamesmanship apart , is there really a chance to salvage the best opportunity yet for peace in the Basque region ? |
| 21 | ACCOUNTANCY is offering you a chance to win the latest product from software giant Microsoft . |
| 22 | A chance to win the latest Dustin Hoffman video and a weekend in London for an unsung hero — or heroine — in your life . |
| 23 | It has been shown above that , on the basis of the careers of a number of Muftis in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries , one might tentatively conclude that by that time it was as a practical matter desirable , if not absolutely necessary , to have taught on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn in order to have a chance to attain the highest office in the learned profession . |
| 24 | No woman has ever before become the ruler of Scotland and there are mutterings about the old Celtic tradition that when a king died the closest male relative took over the reins of power . |
| 25 | She had also become agnostic , and could see no sense in expecting a God to take the slightest interest in St Andrew 's . |
| 26 | Within the National Health Service there may well be a commitment to provide the best possible medical care that the state of medical knowledge will allow and yet this may be tempered by the requirement to act within tight financial constraints . |
| 27 | If a woman makes the slightest mistake it 's pounced on as evidence of her general incompetence . |
| 28 | The speed of the whole chip is restricted by the time it takes a signal to travel the longest distance . |
| 29 | Holmes and Forster interpreted this pattern as indicating that a listener 's processing load is least at clause boundaries , since reaction time should be shortest when a subject has the smallest processing load . |
| 30 | The annual " state of the children " report , published on Dec. 17 by the UN Children 's Fund ( UNICEF ) , urged governments to make available an additional US$25,000 million a year for a drive to eliminate the worst effects of poverty on children and to save the lives of 4,000,000 children a year . |