Example sentences of "the [adj] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Day One : Travel from London Liverpool Street on the 7.30 p.m. boat train to Harwich . |
| 2 | The Barcelona Olympics were the largest ever summer games , with more than 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials . |
| 3 | The Independent pointed out , for example , that the Opposition 's tax plans would mean ’ the largest ever peacetime tax increase . ’ |
| 4 | Within days , the much-respected Strictly Rhythm label had steamed in and now DJAIMIN 's ‘ Give You ’ is being unleashed in the UK by Cooltempo . |
| 5 | ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road . |
| 6 | His reflection was fed by information from a wide variety of sources — from the presidential staff at the Elysée , from his ministers , from officials and experts , from the abundant official documentation that passed across his desk , and from the media ( he read all the major French newspapers as well as the Daily Telegraph , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and the New York Herald Tribune , and his normal weekday routine always ended in time for the eight o'clock television news ) . |
| 7 | The greatest ever North-East band ? |
| 8 | The youngest ever organ soloist to appear at the Proms , in 1977 , he is especially noted for his brilliant performances of twentieth century works and of masterpieces in the great Romantic tradition . |
| 9 | Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years . |
| 10 | At 22 , Val became the youngest ever ward sister at London 's Middlesex Hospital . |
| 11 | The English only fire bullets , but in Irish speech any missile to hand can be fired , simply by hurling it . |
| 12 | Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton . |
| 13 | One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third . |
| 14 | Alternatively they may be due to radiations coming from the plant , possibly reflectance on top of the simple ON/OFF pixel count due to area . |
| 15 | Effectively this happened in two stages — the first in the 1920s and 30s when British colonialism wanted to create an intermediate class in East African countries , and the second after World War II when Britain in common with other Western European countries was faced with a chronic shortage of labour . |
| 16 | It was felt that the seven-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) , embracing the three Leeward island states ( Antigua and Barbuda , Montserrat , and St Kitts and Nevis ) as well as the four Windwards , was more US-oriented and less capable of performing this new role . |
| 17 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 18 | He had learned to play during the 1940s when record players were still a rarity on the domestic front and so his exposure to jazz came mainly from the radio . |
| 19 | Another effect was that it engineered a prevailing mood of despair about the quality of urban and industrial life which in turn bred a determination to rebuild and sweep away the past when the time came — which it did , in the 1940s when town planning was able to assume the mantle of the new provider . |
| 20 | Newspapers would become part of the agreement to keep the message secret until after the traditional 3pm TV broadcast . |
| 21 | Fortunately , we had no time to feel sorry for ourselves because an early morning ferry journey took us to Nevis where we played the current Leeward Island champions . |
| 22 | We built more hospitals and moved decisively away from the terrible stop-go years of the 1970s when capital budgets were slashed . |
| 23 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 24 | Forgetting his appointment with a client , Stevens read on : ‘ It all began in the 1970s when oil prices quadrupled . |
| 25 | His idea of a millionaire 's treat was to take his first wife , Hope Hancock , to the cinema for the 11 o'clock morning show . |
| 26 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 27 | The only things that could put a stop to the recovery from recession in the north-west of England and elsewhere are the policies of the Labour party — for , the sharpest ever peacetime tax increase , the national statutory minimum wage , and changes in the law to encourage strikes . |
| 28 | A tinny voice rang out , reading the ten o'clock news bulletin . |
| 29 | At the very least job exhibitions give you a good chance to practise your interviewing technique . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , the 12.35 a.m. tram journey on route 16/18 was not replaced by a corresponding bus journey from Westminster to Purley . |