Example sentences of "'s [adj -est] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sprinter DMU was one of BR 's greatest success stories of the 1980s — though there were severe setbacks from late deliveries , unreliability of one design , and a near-disastrous flirtation with cheap-to-build railbuses . |
| 2 | Oldknow seems to have had in mind a great combined enterprise , with 1,000 factory workers and 1,000 weavers , and was on the way to becoming one of England 's greatest cotton lords , to rank with the Peels , Arkwrights , and Strutts . |
| 3 | This is despite the fact that its acreage of farmland is about the same as that of the United States , a nation that has become the world 's greatest grain exporter . |
| 4 | See the famous plays of the Bard performed by one of the world 's greatest theatre companies . |
| 5 | These elaborate rituals are nowhere more evident than in London 's Henry Wood Promenade Concerts , perhaps the world 's greatest music festival . |
| 6 | It is the world 's greatest trading bloc and , with economic and monetary union , it could have the world 's strongest currency . |
| 7 | ONE OF Japan 's greatest sumo wrestlers of all time , Chiyonofuji , bowed out of the ring for good last week , defeated by an 18-year-old called Takahanada who promises to become the youngest yokozuna ( grand champion ) of all time . |
| 8 | The Americans , whose still unfinished premises ( the result of Gulf War economies ) consist of a pair of recycled geodesic domes , promise the world 's greatest film show . |
| 9 | The T and G was the paper 's greatest union supporter from the beginning , and was to end up as the biggest single investor . |
| 10 | This year , 1986 , the world 's greatest distance runners were in action : Said Aouita just missed a world record in the 2000 metres , and Steve Cram set a meeting record of 3 minutes 30.15 seconds . |
| 11 | She is the inspiration of Lennox Lewis , Britain 's greatest boxing hope . |
| 12 | Two of the world 's greatest con men … ’ |
| 13 | Edited by Richard Evans , who oversees some of the world 's greatest tennis tournaments , the book offers a bird 's eye view of the Tour , not least because of some of the superb colour photography contained within it . |
| 14 | Take the time I was interviewing the world 's greatest talking bird on The David Frost Show in New York . |
| 15 | But bosses at the famous casino , which has staged some of boxing 's greatest world title fights , are confident they 've scooped the big prize . |
| 16 | That sense of ‘ bitter-sweet ’ ( the title , perhaps not incidentally , of one of Coward 's greatest stage successes ) strikes me as a crucial component of the structure of feeling I am interested in here . |
| 17 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 18 | Britain 's greatest motor show |
| 19 | He settled in Denver where he worked with Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart in a group that later became known as the World 's Greatest Jazz Band . |
| 20 | The invasion danger , and the loss of Minorca , tapped a wave of fierce patriotism which carried into office an outstanding politician , detested by George II but destined to become one of Britain 's greatest war leaders . |
| 21 | This final glimpse of England 's greatest war criminal would be an anecdote to leave to their descendants , like a family heirloom . |
| 22 | THE WORLD 'S GREATEST ADVICE COLUMNIST HELP ! |
| 23 | THE WORLD 'S GREATEST ADVICE COLUMNIST |
| 24 | The fact : driving Porsche 's twenty six year old 911 is still one of the world 's greatest driving experiences . |
| 25 | The almost impenetrable Great Sand Sea of western Egypt and adjacent parts of Libya forms one of the world 's greatest dune areas . |
| 26 | It 's amusing anecdote central with the rent-a-gob Cockney git and erstwhile punk rock Hip Young Gunslinger as they fondly reminisce about their halcyon days at The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly with a greenly envious IAN McCANN |
| 27 | HAVING BEEN a close follower of The Lone Groover and loon pant ads in the NME of the '70s , I had formed a lasting impression of The World 's Greatest Rock Weekly as an impenetrable fortress of wit , intellect and sneering clever-gits . |
| 28 | Then I laughed at the first of Danny Kelly 's many amusing jokes , met The World 's Greatest Rock Photographer , realised there was no NME clique , and knew I 'd found my spiritual home . |
| 29 | The world 's greatest rock n'roll band returned in triumph to their native land last week . |
| 30 | He fills a room with words and , unlike some NME contributors of yore , he can still recall the minutiae of office life in the latest '70s at the world 's greatest rock paper . |