Example sentences of "'s [adj -est] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ WARMLY congratulate the German Democratic Republic on its 40th anniversary , ’ reads the latest exhortation to adorn the cheerless , half-empty lobby of the Peking Hotel , China 's grandest monument to socialist hospitality at its dreary , dust-covered worst . |
| 2 | INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE , 1987 Nouvel 's greatest triumph to date was also the first of President Mitterrand 's ‘ Grands Projets ’ and subsequently became the first building in a Western country to receive an Aga Khan Award . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher 's greatest service to the nation may yet be the institutional reforms that take place on her departure . |
| 4 | Although pure sound recording had started in America , the moving picture was probably America 's greatest contribution to world culture . |
| 5 | Because of the members ' diversity of experience , TAC debates generate lively argument among people with very different opinions ; this , together with the TAC 's reputation for preferring the practical to the conceptual , is the committee 's greatest contribution to the consultation process . |
| 6 | Galileo 's greatest contribution to science was his work in mechanics . |
| 7 | These pictures , often on unusually large negatives for the period , constitute Fenton 's greatest contribution to photography . |
| 8 | In the Kuwaiti view Moscow 's greatest objection to the GCC has been the participation of Oman , which has strong military links with the West . |
| 9 | Unquestionably it was ancient Rome 's greatest legacy to the medieval world , greater probably even than its literature and its poetry . |
| 10 | Jockey Club stewards ruled there was no breach of racing 's regulations despite the failure of the recall system which reduced the world 's greatest steeplechase to a shambles . |
| 11 | The world 's greatest monument to the exploitation of women had its appeal , I had to admit . |
| 12 | There was no doubt that Paddy Byrne 's greatest gift to his daughter Sarah was the passing on of his irresistible Irish charm which enabled him to get his own way . |
| 13 | This is where systems technology took over from the tools , and the change of emphasis may prove to have been programmed learning 's greatest gift to education . |
| 14 | ‘ The Love Album ’ is certainly Carter 's finest work to date , a coming of age , a removing of trade barriers . |
| 15 | Each piece is individually made in solid gold and set with the world 's finest alternative to diamonds . |
| 16 | Genette 's largest contribution to structuralist narrative theory is his Narrative Discourse . |
| 17 | The United States may also be approaching the same conclusion , for between 1980 and 1988 it moved from being the world 's largest creditor to being its largest debtor . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom 's largest privatization to date , the sale of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales , was completed on March 12 when stock exchange dealings began following flotation of the generating companies , National Power and PowerGen . |
| 19 | Britain 's four-legged champion failed by just a neck to add Europe 's toughest race to her unbeaten haul , but she proved a fighter to the end . |
| 20 | The administration 's strongest criticism to date of Mobutu came in testimony to the Senate foreign relations committee on Nov. 7 by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman Cohen , who accused Mobutu of " an apparent unwillingness to distinguish between state finances and his own , a failing that lies at the heart of Zaïre 's dismal economic record " . |
| 21 | If Lovesexy is Prince 's strongest record to date , it 's because its strength lies in coherence . |
| 22 | What unseated the 45-year-old coach , who volunteered his resignation and left ‘ the best of friends with everyone ’ , was Salford 's worst start to a season for years . |
| 23 | JAMIE REDKNAPP last night looked on the bright side of Liverpool 's worst start to a season since 1954 . |
| 24 | Grobbelaar 's recall means David James will be axed as he falls victim to Liverpool 's worst start to a season for 39 years . |
| 25 | In this case a child 's shortest distance to school along public thoroughfares was just less than 3 miles . |
| 26 | Stena Sealink are providing the return ferry journey from Larne to Stranraer and Northern Ireland Railways will provide free return travel from the winner 's nearest station to Larne . |
| 27 | The pollution control officer 's nearest analogy to the police officer 's arrest rate is a show of productivity measured in terms of paperwork , a feature assuming greater importance since reorganization . |
| 28 | Both theologians find man 's highest development to be his participation in the living energy of the love of a transcendent God who , both would agree , can not be fully known in time . |
| 29 | I cull , in the only possible order : the 10 subscribers to London 's first telephone exchange , why golf courses have 18 holes , the 36 metre tower which rounds up Germany 's highest mountain to a neat 3000 metres , the 47 teeth of the mosquito , the 79 men kissed non-platonically by an ‘ average ’ woman in the US prior to marriage , the 159 hack SF books written by Britain 's R. L. Fanthorpe in 13 years , the 163 villages erased by Krakatoa , the 380 kg of Moon rock still unexamined thanks to Senator Proxmire 's money-saving efforts … |
| 30 | Europe 's highest railway to Kleine , Scheidegg and then through tunnels and past glaciers to the summit of the Jungfraujoch at 11,333 ft , is a world famous journey and one that affords fantastic views of snow capped mountain peaks and Alpine scenery . |