Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1953 to 1964 we built up that factory into perhaps the second largest of its kind in the world and certainly the largest and best in Europe . |
| 2 | ‘ The state oil company , PDVSA , has done a tremendous job since nationalisation and is now ranked among the largest and best in the world , ’ he says . |
| 3 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 4 | A MAJOR environmental scheme is to be carried out on Cookstown 's main street — the longest and widest in Ireland . |
| 5 | Odo 's biography was written by a monk who had little interest in the miraculous and much in practical virtues . |
| 6 | Its west façade was rebuilt in the eighteenth and also in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |
| 8 | So by turning gamma rays into electrical current a recorder can then measure the current and hence in effect the number of gammas . |
| 9 | Drought in the 1970s and again in 1983 brought four-wheel-drive Toyotas emblazoned with aid-agency logos but aid failed to alleviate the chronic poverty faced by the peasants who make up 90 per cent of the population . |
| 10 | He answered that question in the negative and likewise in relation to the Inland Revenue . |
| 11 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |
| 12 | Late in the 1370s and early in the 1380s the world order , already upset by long war , seemed set to suffer yet further disruption . |
| 13 | The fact that the London fair is comparatively small ( twenty-nine dealers compared to the eighty or so in New York ) also works in its favour : at this size it is just about possible to look at every print on every stand . |
| 14 | In the 1290s and again in the 1330s the pressure of taxation and resistance to the crown 's recruiting methods led to political crises which undermined the king 's ability to wage war successfully . |
| 15 | Then we had erm , the other people next door , the woman erm , who was supposed to be a man-eater , we 'd actually looked round her house and it was ident identical to ours and we looked , we looked all the way round her house and like , she said , oh yeah , all the building 's the same but just in reverse and like , we met all the neighbours , plus the woman opposite had n't seen the flat , |
| 16 | I had told her that Ivy had had luncheon with Olivia Manning , and had written : ‘ She is always the same and always in a circle of the lettered . |
| 17 | It also has a brand new crazy golf course called Fantasy Golf , the biggest and best in Europe complete with waterfalls . |
| 18 | It is also right next door to a brand new crazy golf course which is the biggest and best in Europe . |
| 19 | For all sports ; for all athletes , the Olympic arena is the biggest and best in the world . |
| 20 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 21 | Our interpretation of the field situation therefore becomes a specific and unusual type of ‘ anthropology at home ’ , for it is not out there in the exotic or even in the backyard . |
| 22 | The spontaneity , excitement and vigour which had attended pop music 's greatest flowerings — in the mid-Fifties and again in the mid-Sixties — had , once again , evaporated ; the market-place was now the sole arbiter of style . |
| 23 | Strong angularity is recognised at the base of the Cretaceous and northwards in the Hewett Sub-basin progressively thicker Palaeozoic and Triassic section is developed below this unconformity . |
| 24 | Despite an expansion in access to education in the 1970s and reforms carried out in the 1960s and again in the late 1970s , the fundamental patterns of inequality have remained and have been accentuated by the war . |
| 25 | Only briefly at the end of the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s did average earnings rise significantly above the all-industry average . |
| 26 | The equitable rules about penalties were , however , to a large extent already introduced into the Common Law Courts by statutes passed at the end of the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century . |
| 27 | He argued that , because of monopoly power in both the goods and labour markets , wages and prices will tend to be inflexible , at least in the short-run and particularly in the downward direction . |
| 28 | Sterling issues expanded dramatically in the 1980s but increasingly in the form of eurosterling bonds and Table 3.8 shows the important share that such bonds now have in the total sterling bond market . |
| 29 | This table also confirms the seeming decline in overall profitability during the 1980s and particularly in 1986 . |