Example sentences of "of the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the thickest sequences of Jurassic-Cretaceous section are known from the Sole P ; t Basin area where up to 6000 ft ( 1830 m ) may be recognised . |
| 2 | By the time you read this there will certainly be 200 or more routes , and although many of these will be big numbers , there is certainly the potential for more instant classics in the middle grades on one of the friendliest crags I 've ever visited . |
| 3 | Indicative of the lowest level of Merovingian legislation is the first book of the Formulary compiled by Marculf around the year 700 . |
| 4 | They reject the " most vulnerable person " standard of Hicklin , with its preoccupation with those members of society of the lowest level of intellectual or moral discernment . |
| 5 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 6 | We have one of the lowest standard pensions for a for an O A P in the whole of western Europe . |
| 7 | Describing this drawing or another like it , Vincent said he had tried to reveal ‘ something touching and almost sad in these poor obscure labourers — of the lowest order , so to speak , and the most despised . ’ |
| 8 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 9 | In December 1886 the Home Office received a memorial from the Clapham Vigilance Association , complaining that Clapham Common was ‘ infested ’ with prostitutes of the lowest type and that actual fornication was shamelessly committed on benches close to the public roadway . |
| 10 | The South Coast Air Quality Management District ( AQMD ) , a powerful independent regulatory body in the US State of California , has devised what it describes as a " revolutionary programme " for reducing air pollution in the Los Angeles area , which has one of the lowest air qualities in the industrialized world . |
| 11 | Thus Oke ( 1978 ) emphasized the physical basis of physical , topo- , local- , meso- and regional climates in the boundary layer climates of the lowest kilometre of the atmosphere , then proceeded to deal with natural climates of non-vegetated and vegetated surfaces , topographically affected climates and the climates of animals , and then progressed to man-modified environments embracing conscious and unconscious modification of boundary-layer climates particularly those including urban climates . |
| 12 | In 1873 , after a case of murder in which the victim was a Rodi , the Assistant Government Agent at Nuvara Eliya commented that ‘ the victim was of the lowest caste , to which they [ the Sinhalese ] clearly believe that the principles of natural justice and law are not applicable . ’ |
| 13 | Most women must live in open contradiction with their own moral code , for while they regard marriage as a fundamental aim in life , El Salvador has one of the lowest marriage rates in the hemisphere . |
| 14 | Only 5 per cent of the lowest quartile had any income from paid employment compared with 45 per cent of the highest quartile . |
| 15 | At the same time , cutbacks in services , and the sharp increase in family poverty ( families with children replaced pensioners as the main component of the lowest income group ) meant that need and demand were increasing , just when services were having to be rationed . |
| 16 | Evidence produced in Social Trends 1987 ( CSO ) , after studying the composition of the lowest income group , suggested that changes have occurred in the nature of poverty . |
| 17 | As the days , weeks and months dragged on and the fine weather turned to biting snow , preventing builders or delivery vans from approaching Remaisnil , the frustrations for Laura and Bernard became at times overwhelming , One of the lowest moments for Laura was an interview she agreed to give to Susan Raven of the The Sunday Times , for ‘ A Life in the Day of ’ series . |
| 18 | Tie a length of cord to each of the lowest rings , placing the shortest length nearest the operational side . |
| 19 | The police had no organizational link with the courts , despite the designation of the lowest tier of the judicial system as ‘ police courts ’ . |
| 20 | The seneschal had told Quiss that the air circulation system was powered by one of the lowest ranks of the castle 's diminutive attendants ; they walked round inside treadmills linked to big watermill-like fans . |
| 21 | on last year , we now have one of the lowest growths in manufactured output in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries , and 3,000 manufacturing jobs are being lost every day , why did the Government fail yesterday to take any action to bring about a recovery in wealth-creating manufacturing industry ? |
| 22 | Members of the lowest stratum in stratification systems which provide little opportunity for improvement of status tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards life . |
| 23 | Blacks are now moving out of the lowest stratum in ever increasing numbers . |
| 24 | Book your summer '90 holiday with this White Hot Deal section and save yourself £££s ! club 18–30 is offering you the chance of a lifetime to book a fun-filled holiday at some of the lowest prices around . |
| 25 | And now the quarrel was under its own impetus , and once again a trial seemed to be in progress , with both of them as accusers , but both figuring also as investigators of the lowest description , wretched hirelings , turning over the stones to find where the filth lay buried . |
| 26 | However , this does not generally apply to larger farms , and it is paradoxical that some of the lowest earnings are in East Anglia , where the largest and probably most profitable farms are located . |
| 27 | This gives an annual range of only 8.8°C , one of the lowest ranges in Britain . |
| 28 | Burkina Faso had some of the lowest literacy levels in Africa : only one out of every ten citizens could read and write any language . |
| 29 | For much of the 1950s and 1960s the Greeks had the fastest-growing economy and yet one of the lowest inflation rates in Europe . |
| 30 | Modest economic recovery , begun in 1987 , continued in 1989 , when at 16.5 per cent Bolivia 's was one of the lowest inflation rates in Latin America . |