Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] [prep] the best " in BNC.
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| 1 | By mixing Redgra with shale , Oxford 's neighbours Swindon have made theirs one of the best tracks in the country . |
| 2 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 3 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 4 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 5 | Thereafter it was continually in need of repair or subject to minor alteration until the Reformation , given a Lady Chapel for the cult of the Virgin in the later thirteenth century and , most obviously , a spire in the fifteenth century , making it one of the best landscape features of any medieval building , far less uniformly oppressive than Salisbury . |
| 6 | Only last year the four-star Tiroler Adler underwent an extensive renovation that made it one of the best hotels in Kirchberg . |
| 7 | Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants . |
| 8 | Even now , I consider it one of the best machines ever made . |
| 9 | I like to think that I share a love of the World Service and an interest in it with Mr. Gorbachev , who gave it one of the best unsolicited testaments that anyone could when he said that while being held prisoner he heard about what was going on in the world by listening to the World Service . |
| 10 | Not only is he one of the best goalkeepers the country ever produced , but the only Scottish internationalist who can honestly claim he was involved in the mysterious case of the missing meat . |
| 11 | Was n't he one of the best postmen the GPO had ever had ? |
| 12 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 13 | Though it may never be possible fully to understand what converts a man to a religion , Eliot 's view of Baudelaire gives us one of the best guides to his own conversion to Christianity . |
| 14 | Elaine Moss , in her short article ‘ The ‘ Peppermint ’ lesson' ( 1986 ) has given us one of the best accounts of the happy marriage of the right reader with the right book . |
| 15 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |