Example sentences of "have [verb] the [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British government has given the clearest signals yet that it intends to authorise the start-up of British Nuclear Fuels ' ( BNFL ) thermal oxide reprocessing plant ( THORP ) at Sellafield . |
| 2 | KAREN MELLOR has located the best deals in London , Britain 's other major cities and in national chain stores . |
| 3 | Recently , Harland and Wolff has attracted the largest orders in Europe . |
| 4 | The more stringent requirements may not be needed for all processes , but , where only one supply is available , this has to meet the strictest limits ( see Table II ) . |
| 5 | He criticised a manager who has won the greatest honours in the game and has got more knowledge about football than he ever will . |
| 6 | ‘ She has seen the best specialists in Europe . ’ |
| 7 | Having said that , this season has seen the best conditions for controlling the weed for some time . |
| 8 | Social workers and the courts are facing a problem which has defeated the best efforts of families and professionals ; whatever the wording , few courts will be willing to gamble on children whom they refuse to commit to security not returning to prostitution , burning down a house , or injuring themselves . |
| 9 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 10 | If the theory is to exemplify and test holism , the project of discovering whether , or how , it can be applied , is obviously extremely urgent , and among Althusser 's followers , the person who has made the greatest strides in this direction is undoubtedly Nicos Poulantzas . |
| 11 | He has become a target for abuse — and powerful sponsors who back the team with around £20-£25million a year want a say in what has become the greatest sports outcry of all time . |
| 12 | In his view it was ‘ in this general context that one has to consider the latest proposals advanced by the Soviet President ’ . |
| 13 | Saddam has desecrated the holiest sites of a fierce and unforgiving religion |
| 14 | Imaginary time is a difficult concept to grasp , and it is probably the one that has caused the greatest problems for readers of my book . |
| 15 | It has taken the best elements from several Dutch schemes the Dutch being recognised as the experts in creating wetland nature reserves . |
| 16 | It follows the tremendous success of his first book Recipes from Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons ( Macdonald Orbis , £17.50 ) , which has topped the best sellers ' list with more than 65,000 sales . |
| 17 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 19 | And I always remember he said said to me , he 'd placed the biggest orders for pencils , of course in them , there were no ball pens , er he he received that from the London County Council by accident . |
| 20 | This appears to be the case even in youth subcultures where one might have expected the greatest changes . |
| 21 | These losses all exceed what would be ‘ expected ’ from the areas ' detailed industrial structure ( which would have forecast the greatest rates of decline in Gwent , West Glamorgan and South Yorkshire ) , and the balances can be mapped as ‘ differential shifts ’ ( Figure 5.3B ) . |
| 22 | That in itself is a full measure of the standing and ability of the Palace goalkeeper who , but for one of life 's tragedies , might have reached the highest honours in the game . |
| 23 | Whether or not he supervised the building is unknown , but in 1775 , when it was begun , the city of Bath must have provided the best builders and craftsmen in the country . |
| 24 | We were able to boast of having set the lowest rates in west London and of providing sufficiently good services to attract the Leader of the Opposition to Conservative-controlled Ealing from Liberal-controlled Richmond . |
| 25 | In this sense he is like Mrs Ghandi , who as India 's prime minister ordered the attack on the Sikh Golden Temple and was later murdered by her Sikh bodyguard : having desecrated the holiest places of a fierce and unforgiving religion , Saddam 's life is potentially in danger from every Shiite he comes into contact with . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've got this Unesco thing coming on — oh , here are the Fairfaxes , ’ he declared , as the door opened to admit a tall middle-aged man and an even taller woman , obviously husband and wife , who had grown to look like each other in a rather unfortunate way , their small heads and long stringy bodies seeming as if they must have combined the worst features of each . |
| 27 | There was dust and litter enough on the concreted floor to have preserved the latest traces of feet , though it was clearly swept reasonably often . |
| 28 | Their daughter seemed to have taken the best features and left the bad ones . |
| 29 | The government and housing divisions were said to have yielded the lowest returns and action is promised to boost their performance . |
| 30 | The winner would be the surfer who was judged to have performed best overall on the day : to have ridden the biggest waves in the most critical positions . |