Example sentences of "of [verb] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1927 he , later supported by his friend ( Sir ) William Stanier [ q.v. ] , advocated the building of a national locomotive testing station capable of handling the largest locomotives and in 1937 work on the station was started at Rugby . |
| 2 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 3 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 4 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 5 | He had an intuitive capability of bringing the best out in people . |
| 6 | In his case , it was a farming image , though he was incapable of cultivating the smallest back garden . |
| 7 | This , some researchers think , is not an effective way of stimulating the best research : some element of competition or selectivity is necessary . |
| 8 | One watches the 100 metres , that legendary dash with its magical ten-second touchstone , and one knows that these men , these Christies and Lewises and Burrells , are running toward the destiny of becoming the fastest human being in the world . |
| 9 | ENGLAND are planning a tour of South Africa in 1994 as part of their long-term aim of becoming the best rugby side in the world . |
| 10 | Mr Nyers and his reformists now stand a very good chance of becoming the biggest party in the new parliament . |
| 11 | ‘ This has the making of becoming the biggest bureaucratic complexity since Lord Woolton set up the rationing system , ’ BR chairman Sir Bob Reid wrote after the white paper was published . |
| 12 | There was sympathy too for Floyd , who at 49 had the chance of becoming the oldest champion and now runner-up for the second time in three years . |
| 13 | VETERAN bluesman John Lee Hooker has just achieved the honour of becoming the oldest person to have a UK Top 20 hit . |
| 14 | The Arsenal pair might just be capable of staging the best road show since Hope and Crosby — but Ipswich had very few laughs at Highbury . |
| 15 | And even though I assure myself that it 's just the annual resurgence of an old allergy ( a distant relation of eczema — Xmasa ) , I am still incapable of keeping the worst symptoms at bay . |
| 16 | With close colleagues there is more chance of explaining the best way of ‘ making it easy for them ’ , of getting them on your side as allies . |
| 17 | As a result , they have the knack of employing the best architects , but not getting the best out of them . |
| 18 | Defence and foreign policy , the necessity of employing the latest technology in areas such as transport , modern economic and cooperation policy and the associated taxation and planning requirements , above all defence and social policy … — all these things exercise an enormous centralising , unitary and equalising effect . |
| 19 | Fresh from the indulgence of driving the fastest and most powerful Jaguar saloon ever built over several hundred kilometres of demanding roads , I was about to set off on a journey that would take me from one end of Europe to the other . |
| 20 | Though her long musical career has seemed very erratic , the overview provided by Greatest Hits 1965–1992 from I Got You Babe and the brilliant Gypsies , Tramps and Thieves right up to The Shoop Shoop Song — proves she has a great voice and a devilish way of picking the best tunes . |
| 21 | And yet , for this crucial deciding match , they stopped short of picking the best XI for the circumstances . |
| 22 | The Pfizer 's Thanet Coastal Marathon has painfully earned its reputation of saving the worst until the very end of the race . |
| 23 | Now that the recession is in the process of revoking the latest of those excuses , Richard Mabey has a suggestion : let's re-examine the conceit of the indispensable human imprint and return some of the land , at least , to Nature . |
| 24 | The New Hall Country House Hotel and Restaurant , Sutton Coldfield , was presented with the Wedgwood Fine Dining Award for recognition of serving the finest cuisine in the most elegant of surroundings . |
| 25 | When you accept these books , you not only save £21.51 ( and the Lotto Game comes free ) ; you automatically become a member of this celebrated Club with over twelve years ' experience of recommending the best children 's books . |
| 26 | Prospects for long-term forecasting are being examined , with the aim of recommending the best approach to use . |
| 27 | The Monnet Plan however , committed France to economic growth , with the aim of surpassing the best pre-war levels of industrial output by 1950 , and thus marked a revolutionary change in attitudes from the economic stagnation of the Third Republic . |
| 28 | If I were a head teacher or a chair of governors now , I would use quite blatantly the annual meeting and the annual report as ways of sounding the loudest and brightest clarion calls about my school 's performance and achievements … |
| 29 | It represented something of a risk , however , in that the choice of two white , male , centrist , southerners defied the traditional wisdom of " balancing " the presidential ticket as a means of presenting the widest possible appeal to the country 's different constituent electoral groups . |
| 30 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |