Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The income becomes the highest part of the settlor 's income although the settlor has a right to recover the tax from the trust . |
| 2 | Elf astrologers and geomancers studied the portents to divine the best time for the new king to begin his reign , and calculated the best time for him to pass through the flame . |
| 3 | The opportunity to enjoy the finest food and wine and to relive the 450-year history of England 's most famous country inn , is offered to National Trust members at £195.00 per person , including VAT , and is applicable for any two nights between 1st November , 1990 and 31st March , 1991 . |
| 4 | The restructuring has not only provided the opportunity to gather the best of our expertise at the new centres and better serve our clients through local offices but will also provide for much greater efficiency and make us better placed to meet the ever changing demands of the 90s . |
| 5 | This is a high pressure environment but relishes the opportunity to play the best players in the world , including previous world champions : ‘ The main thing is to just stay cool — you ca n't afford to make any mistakes . |
| 6 | We want listeners up and down the country to have the opportunity to hear the best of our local radio and regional journalism . |
| 7 | One potent centre of respectable discontent was Leavis 's group for whom the cinema represented the worst in modern popular entertainment , involving merely ‘ surrender , under conditions of hypnotic receptivity , to the cheapest emotional appeals ’ . |
| 8 | Royal Mail is giving a package of technical support and advice worth £3,500 as a first prize , to enable the winner to make the best use of postcodes in her business . |
| 9 | Her mum , having spent the afternoon fearing the worst , met Sally from school and started questioning her right away . |
| 10 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 11 | Overall I think ZZAP ! is a very good magazine ( much better than CF ) and I will stand by it ( roll patriotic music ! ) through rain , show and worst of all , the CPC becoming the best 8-bit ! |
| 12 | By their social destruction , the message is conveyed that the impairment represents the greatest fall for a person this side of death . |
| 13 | An element of focus is provided , it is true , by the concept of the dominant , in the sense of the level of the text showing the highest degree of deformation . |
| 14 | The Department has plans to promote a wide range of activities for the community as a whole and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources . |
| 15 | The Department intends to develop a wide range of activities for the community and to work closely with other bodies in the field to ensure the fullest use of resources . |
| 16 | On the bridge the atmosphere was tense ; the sweeping cursor of the radar showed the nearest of the islands , Levenish , to be only a kilometre distant and , although the water was deep enough , there comes a point beyond which no prudent captain will take a liner full of passengers . |
| 17 | The trophy for the cow achieving the highest butter fat and protein records over three years went to the British Holstein Castledon Donfloss 4 , belonging to Norman Gotts , of Wickford , Essex . |
| 18 | The X-rays revealled the worst … a broken knee cap … |
| 19 | One thing is clear from the hon. Gentleman 's attitude : were there ever a Labour Government , there would be no review of programmes and there would be no assessment of the way in which help is given to ensure that it is cost effective or of how Government resources are deployed to ensure that the taxpayer gets the best value for money . |
| 20 | They point out that most beef comes from private , not public land ; that the taxpayer deserves the highest economic return from grazing allotments ; and that the current fee for grazing on public land , $1.86 per AUM ( Animal Unit Month : the amount of forage needed to feed one cow and its calf , or five sheep , for a month ) is a scandalous subsidy . |
| 21 | Reports indicated , however , that the decision to convene the latest meeting , which followed talks in Tehran between SAIRI and the Iraqi National Congress ( INC — sponsor of the Vienna conference ) , had been prompted by SAIRI 's growing concern over the INC 's high profile among Western governments . |
| 22 | On 7 September on the field of Borodino the Russians inflicted the worst savaging any army of Napoleon 's had ever suffered , before withdrawing in good order . |
| 23 | However , the same type of results will emerge when the CU excludes the lowest cost producer from the union . |
| 24 | The University seeks the best available candidate , with an international reputation in scholarship and research . |
| 25 | The University boasts the largest University library in Britain with over two million printed books and in Edinburgh students are well served by the National Library of Scotland , a copyright library entitled to receive a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | Of these three , the hexagon has the shortest total length of wall for a given enclosed area . |
| 27 | The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 28 | The sheep had the worst time , and not many survived 1947 , although provisions for people and animals alike were dropped in by helicopter , and the Army forced a way through on the south side of the dale . |
| 29 | Mr Gill : With regard to subsidiarity , my right hon. Friend will be aware of the necessity to protect the best features of our national and local democracy . |
| 30 | ‘ But is n't it the case , ’ I ask him , ‘ that while people are piling into the cinemas to see the worst exports of Hollywood , they are also piling in to see our own films , such as Alan Parker 's The Commitments , which has after all just won the Bafta award for best film . ’ |