Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1992 profits were the third-highest in Vauxhall 's history and compare with a 1991 pre-tax figure of £132.6 million . |
| 2 | ( Certain gilts can be traded special ex dividend three weeks prior to the normal ex dividend date , which means that they can be bought or sold with or without the next coupon during this period . ) |
| 3 | The Ibos in Nigeria and the Bamilike in Cameroun are both groups who in the 1950s and 1960s respectively made a bid for predominant national power ; they failed , and continue to feel excluded from the political mainstream of their countries . |
| 4 | Individual carpet designs , borders , Chlidema squares were all custom made in traditional woven Axminster or Wilton , the broadloom being woven at Elderslie and the narrow at Runcorn . |
| 5 | The rape and murder of four US churchwomen who were carrying out humanitarian work with the displaced in December 1980 has received the most detailed international press coverage , but it is by no means an isolated case . |
| 6 | Chatsworth is the grandest of gardens , with canals , fountains , cascades and magnificent glasshouses within a 1,000 park . |
| 7 | The Great Court of the Citadel of Famagusta was one hundred and sixty feet long , and built to accommodate the grandest of ceremonials . |
| 8 | This is a stunning world of peace and tranquility , an assortment of panoramic spectacles , where every sight is awesome , and all are on the grandest of scales . |
| 9 | ( Restaurant advertisement , translated by T C Lai ) THE FRENCH gastronomic journal , Gault-Millau , caused major ructions this summer by applying its critical eye to the grandest of Hong Kong 's hotel restaurants . |
| 10 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 11 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 12 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 13 | It 's now run as a dairy farm with a herd of 16 Ayrshires — the second-best in Staffordshire , says Derrick Golland the country 's advisory teacher on environmental subjects . |
| 14 | Not the nicest of things , no |
| 15 | Both Schwarzenegger as the nicest of guys and De Vito as a sneaky crook are surprisingly convincing and delightfully funny . |
| 16 | Mike said : ‘ I was n't told in the nicest of manners . |
| 17 | This can be provided by the magic power or words , such as inscribing prohibitions into the nation 's constitution , and by manifestations of the divine in terms of either retribution for failing to uphold the truth , or grace for upholding the truth , with rewards ‘ such as oil finds and victories in the World Championships ’ . |
| 18 | The provisional date is Sunday the 17th of September . |
| 19 | If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally . |
| 20 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
| 21 | On Sunday the 17th of Rabi'I [ 20 March 1650 ] the festival of Nauroz [ New Year ] was celebrated in the most splendid and sumptuous style as the ocean of royal bounty and munificence broke into surging billows … |
| 22 | On Saturday the 17th of August we attended the Great British Beer Festival which was held in the Docklands Arena , London . |
| 23 | It is consequently being officially recorded that Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , is presumed to have been killed in action on the 17th of June 1944 . |
| 24 | The 17th at Letchworth may look like a picture postcard , but it 's not a pretty sight to the members . |
| 25 | Sea Fury FB.11 G–AGHB following the forced-landing at Osnabruck , June 1979 . |
| 26 | Van Loon ( 6926293 w ) is in an old Dutch freight sailboat moored on the Landwehrkanal in Kreuzberg , and offers a small but excellent evening menu . |
| 27 | They drove in from the west , on the 243 through Gunzerode , and along the cracked road that led past the IFA Motorenwerk where they once made bicycles and now were being upgraded to motor bikes . |
| 28 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 29 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
| 30 | Radical pioneers of birth control in the 1820s like Richard Carlile believed that a diminished workforce , by reducing competition , would benefit wages , but such arguments often received short shrift . |