Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A single processor offers 86 MIPS , 75.4 SpecMarks and 78.1 AIMS , versus the largest of the systems with 344 MIPS and a record-setting 289.3 SPECthruput . |
| 32 | The largest of the civets , the binturong , hardly qualifies as a small predator , since it can grow to 3 ft ( 90 cm ) in length . |
| 33 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 34 | The lesser rorqual ( or minke , as it is called in Norway ) is the largest of the cetaceans likely to be met with in inshore water around Shetland . |
| 35 | Yes well if we take for example er probably the largest of the packages which we have priced converted to a fixed price basis so far which was package number three , er the tooling for the development aircraft and roll equipment which is erm er forty eight million pounds , that was priced in August nineteen ninety two when eighty percent of that work had been done . |
| 36 | I pull out the largest of the knives , then turn and leave the kitchen , heading down the corridor past the dining room and the study to the stairs . |
| 37 | Tubeworkers , the largest of the sub-contractors , is taking High Court action over money it claims is owed by Trafalgar . |
| 38 | The three men , talking earnestly , walked together to the largest of the huts and disappeared inside . |
| 39 | Verzenay is the largest of the grands crus and is the best growth on the northern slopes of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 40 | Vertus , at the southern end of the Côte des Blancs , is the largest of the grands and premiers crus . |
| 41 | Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport . |
| 42 | Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " . |
| 43 | STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer . |
| 44 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’ |
| 46 | Greed is the least of the problems , though the administration was not amused when Israel pushed its luck by suggesting that to help with its Gulf expenses — missile damage , the cost of the prolonged military alert , loss of tourism and so on — America might like to double the $3 billion it already gives Israel each year . |
| 47 | That , in many ways , was the least of the problems . |
| 48 | Not the least of the problems which Cnut faced as king of England was an important and complex relationship with the English church . |
| 49 | Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers . |
| 50 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |
| 51 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 52 | ‘ In many ways , Clinton 's victory was the least of the unknowns facing the market , ’ said Ian Amstad , economist at Bankers Trust in London . |
| 53 | Birth was the least of the requirements for co-option to this introverted community . |
| 54 | A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries . |
| 55 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 56 | Using the notation the bounds proved by Walpole for aligned transversely isotropic elements are : where the upper bound is where are the greatest of the values and the lower bound is where are the least of these . |
| 57 | ‘ Our kind is the greatest of the birds that fly in this land , ’ she explained . |
| 58 | But the greatest of the ruins of mediaeval Delhi , the great fort of Tughlukabad , lay some six miles due east of my rooftop , virtually invisible now in the gathering darkness . |
| 59 | A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape . |
| 60 | Spring , the greatest of the clothiers , owned land there valued at £105. 10s. ; his ancestors had been gentlemen , and his son John , in 1522 a gentleman in the household of Sir William Waldegrave at Smallbridge , Bures , dissolved the business on succeeding his father in 1523 . |