Example sentences of "the [adj -est] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norway , with the third-highest tax burden in 1989 , had an annual average growth rate of 3.1 % in the period 1976–91 , nearly 25% above the OECD average of 2.5% per annum , and ranked as high as second in terms of growth rate . |
| 2 | Freshfields 's new marbled offices off Fleet Street would pique the ego of the grandest City banker . |
| 3 | In particular , areas like Knowsley and Tower Hamlets , which contain vast tracts of the poorest council housing , do not show up as especially in need of redistributional funding under the formulae used in the assessment of GRE . |
| 4 | The problems appear critical for the 20 per cent of the Merseyside population living in the poorest council housing and especially in the district of Knowsley where 48 per cent of the population ( six times the national average ) live in such areas . |
| 5 | When there is indifference about the distribution of income ( parallel straight lines with a 45° angle to the x and y axes ) ; means that concern is only with the income of the poorest income unit ( the Rawlsian case ) . |
| 6 | Of the two the Almond has the poorest water quality as it serves four sewage works directly viz Whitburn , Blackburn , East Calder and Newbridge and two works by tributaries , Fauldhouse via the Breich Water and Winchburgh via the Niddrie Burn . |
| 7 | The gloomy assessment of Derry 's chances is based on the poorest goal scoring record of any team in the top six — City have averaged less than a goal game from 28 League outings . |
| 8 | Our rail network is the lowest funded , the lowest staffed and has the lowest investment programme in Europe with the poorest quality service and the fastest declining level of safety , but B R has the highest fares . |
| 9 | It lists the following options : ( i ) reducing irrigation ; ( ii ) improving irrigation efficiency ; ( iii ) improving water management by providing consumers with incentives to conserve water ; ( iv ) introducing other crops , including other strains of rice and cotton , with lower water needs ; and ( v ) taking the poorest quality land out of production . |
| 10 | Factors such as location , journey to work , allocation and management policies , cost and personal preference meant that different types of households were accommodated in different housing forms ; predictably the low-income groups took the poorest quality housing ( Pooley and Irish , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | The fourth item in table 9.7 shows the five Authorities identified as having the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme , which includes multiple criteria and identifies four mutually exclusive groups of housing areas associated with particular deprivation , each of which could be treated separately in the allocation of resources : poor terraced housing , the poorest Local Authority housing , areas with a high concentration of multiple — occupancy and of people of Asian origin , and areas with a high concentration of multi-let property with a significant proportion of people of Afro-Caribbean origin . |
| 12 | I agree with radio critics who declare that the BBC is the finest broadcasting organization in the world . |
| 13 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 14 | So began a relationship on and off stage that gave the audiences some of the finest Tiller work . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the BTA is still the custodian of the finest theatre library in Europe . |
| 16 | The Gleneagles Group The Gleneagles Hotel , located near Auchterarder in Scotland , is one of the finest golf resort hotels in the world . |
| 17 | The song had an anthemic ‘ Smiths are back ’ feel and contained the finest uptempo guitar work Marr had produced thus far . |
| 18 | One film , however , Now Barabbas Was A Robber , directed by Gordon Parry from the play by William Douglas Home , brought him his best review yet from the finest film critic of her day , C. A. Lejeune , in The Observer . |
| 19 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |
| 20 | It was also the finest love song since Joy Division 's ‘ Love Will Tear Us Apart ’ . |
| 21 | They found their literary expression in a series of haunting elegies generally considered to contain some of the finest love poetry in the English language . |
| 22 | And here was the finest country air , transparent sparkling sun , the distant low hills and soft basking meadows half-hidden by the blue haze of noon . |
| 23 | He could have been the finest brain surgeon England has ever seen … even blind he is a superb concert pianist … |
| 24 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 25 | Early plans for what was called the finest waterfront site in Europe included a heritage centre , now nearly complete , and a leisure complex with bowling alley , cinemas , food stores and nightclub , none of which have been attracted to the site . |
| 26 | Kumana villu — villu means lake — is the finest waterbird lagoon on the dry south-eastern coast . |
| 27 | Medieval jewellery , in the finest antiquarian tradition |
| 28 | Ken himself would have gone along with Michael Codron 's judgement of being the finest revue actor of the day — not realizing that revue was about to go the way of music hall . |
| 29 | The next road to the right , Via Montenapoleone , is by common consent the finest shopping street in Milan , the main thoroughfare of an area of ‘ high class ’ shopping . |
| 30 | They employ 100 people and have two sites in the town of Sudbury which process and weave silks into the finest tie fabric . |