Example sentences of "as the [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attack was described as the bloodiest in the troubled post-independence history of Casamance , and was the first major outbreak of violence since the government signed a peace agreement with the MFDC in May 1991 . |
| 2 | ‘ The English are great lovers of themselves , and of everything belonging to them ’ , wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century ; ‘ they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say that he ‘ looks like an Englishman' ’ and that ‘ it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman ’ , words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major ; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau , who visited England in 1484 , found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world . |
| 3 | There are many pieces which avoid climaxes altogether , such as the Pastoral in Vivaldi 's ‘ Spring ’ Concerto ( The Seasons , Op. 8 , No. 1 ) . |
| 4 | In case you 're wondering , I could n't give a monkey 's about hunting , a sport once described as the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable . |
| 5 | The learner , too , needs to have a sense of purpose , and wants to regard the tutor as the professional in charge of the learning situation ( FEU 1990 ) . |
| 6 | this is in fact two players as the one in green and yellow has his boot firmly up the arse of the one in red and white stripes . |
| 7 | Tomorrow he delivers a lecture Beyond the Rhetoric : a cool look at architectural judgement as the first in a series by new professors at Leeds Polytechnic . |
| 8 | Axil also introduced an Open Look-based fax/modem package called AxilEnvoy as the first in a series of software products to provide added functionality such as voice mail , conversation record/playback , multimedia document support , security , image filtering and editing and optical character reading . |
| 9 | We 're not known as the first in Pest Control for nothing . |
| 10 | Two state-commissioned reports , described by Yeltsin in his Oct. 6 speech to the Supreme Soviet as the first in 70 years to contain " nothing but the truth " about the nation 's health and the state of the environment , were unveiled at a press conference on Oct. 7 . |
| 11 | The option always lists the SPRs in descending numerical order of identifier , presenting the highest SPR identifier in the specified range as the first in the list . |
| 12 | The option always lists the SSRs in descending numerical order of identifier , presenting the highest SSR identifier in the specified range as the first in the list . |
| 13 | Scottish salmon is regarded as the finest in the world . |
| 14 | I rate the summit of Sgurr nan Gillean as the finest in my experience . |
| 15 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 16 | Touted at his peak as the best in the world , Schumacher , 38 , shocked the world with a cynical and dangerous professional foul to prevent French defender Patrick Battiston from scoring a semi-final goal that would have almost certainly put France in the 1982 final . |
| 17 | The non-turbo ZX diesel , which went on sale at the beginning of the winter , has been acclaimed by motoring writers as the best in its class . |
| 18 | By 1761 the artillery consisted of 31 field companies , totalling 3200 officers and men ; the former , unlike their infantry and cavalry colleagues , did not have to purchase their commissions but were appointed and promoted solely on merit , and the British artillery was soon recognised as the best in the world . |
| 19 | The Jed-Forest scrum-half was recognised as the best in Britain before a knee ligament injury in a club match on January 11 threatened to end his playing days . |
| 20 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 21 | It 's widely regarded as the best in town and is within strolling distance of the city centre and Maschsee . |
| 22 | This terminological ambiguity symbolizes a basic contradiction embodied in the whole process of change which followed 1868 , a running tension between those who looked back and sought to revive what they saw as the best in Japanese tradition in the face of a Western onslaught , and those who looked to the future and were prepared to accommodate the values and techniques of their competitors , if only to compete effectively with them . |
| 23 | This latter region produces a type referred to as rasht silk , which is generally regarded as the best in the world . |
| 24 | In this kind of political situation , and in the context of an economic decline that was " blamed " on the excesses of democratic politics , instead of praising the British constitution as the best in the world , the constitutional authorities agreed that things were very badly wrong . |
| 25 | It is easy with the advantages of hindsight to think of the political structure of eighteenth-century England , with all its defects , as the best in Europe . |
| 26 | The main area for the manufacture of fine broadcloths was the southern Cotswolds , notably in the Stroud valley , where there was not only a supply of high-quality local wool — Cotswold wool was generally regarded as the best in England — but also quantities of fuller 's earth and available water power ( 65 , pp.153–6 ; 84 , p.309 ) . |
| 27 | A circus , billed as the best in Europe , brought a town centre to a halt as animals and performers went on parade . |
| 28 | The British Mountain Bike Record could be broken on sunday as the best in the land compete in the National Championships at Eastnor Park … in Herefordshire … |
| 29 | On Aug. 28 , 1990 , the then Agriculture Minister , Braks , announced a programme — described as the strictest in the world — designed to halve by 2000 the use of pesticides by the country 's intensive agricultural industry . |
| 30 | Its new pesticide proposals are regarded as the strictest in the world : " organic " and " biodynamic " farmers are to be seen as pioneers pointing to new chemical-free techniques for the rest of the agricultural community . |