Example sentences of "his [adj -est] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first televised address since the end of the Gulf War , French President Mitterrand on March 3 issued his clearest call to date for an independent Palestinian state . |
| 2 | MIGHTY MOGUL yesterday cruised through his toughest test to date with a tremendously impressive victory in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton . |
| 3 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 4 | Probably his greatest claim to fame is as the inventor of microphotography , his earliest successful results , based on the newly introduced wet collodion process , dating from February 1852 . |
| 5 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 6 | ‘ It probably is , ’ he responded when asked if the Lancome was his biggest success to date . |
| 7 | His biggest claim to fame is introducing Ben Watt and Tracy Thorn and giving the world Everything But The Girl . |
| 8 | ( West Greek cities oscillate between prosperity and obliteration , justifying all Pindar 's insistence on the mobility of fortune : Olympian xii is his frankest hymn to Fortune , Tyche , and is addressed to a Sicilian victor , Ergoteles of Himera . ) |
| 9 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 10 | ‘ He has been threatening to do that all season and this was his best performance to date . ’ |
| 11 | The latest round on the Church Bridge length of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rugeley saw Steve Collins ( Team Uniprint ) gain his best win to date with 4–5–10 of ruffe to beat his team mate , Tony Keeling , on 3–3–4 . |
| 12 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 13 | With Thunderheart Apted has made his best movie to date . |
| 14 | However , he has his easiest task to date at Lingfield and can gain a confidence-boosting victory in the Marsh Green Maiden . |
| 15 | Graduates have already helped the University in a variety of ways — one graduate has donated the royalties from his latest book to CAMPUS — The Campaign to Promote the University of Salford , and a Convocation Appeal raised £3,500 to help the cost of improving access to the Peal Building for disabled students . |