Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took the merest instant , but as a process it never ceased to fascinate her . |
| 2 | For the merest instant , some final , irreducible unit of desire , he had glimpsed a feeling , an urge within himself he had not imagined himself capable of , but now this tiny , standard piece of information , these few letters , had switched his hopes off like some cheap light bulb . |
| 3 | There were footsteps outside the door , and a trilling laugh that Paige recognised the merest instant before the door was thrust open and Drew came in , a giggling Lori attached to his arm . |
| 4 | For example , Cambridge , the largest branch in the District with a membership of 250 , serving a population estimated at 67,000 in 1937 had a quota allocation of a little over £24 . |
| 5 | You called the half-mortals out of Andernesse , and broke the spell-wall which was the last and greatest protection against the dark . |
| 6 | By far the greatest protection for consumers in Britain is provided by parliament , which in several important pieces of legislation has set up a framework in which the respective rights and duties of consumers and suppliers can be identified and clarified . |
| 7 | This category has the least security , but the greatest freedom of manoeuvre . |
| 8 | The greatest freedom is to be responsible . |
| 9 | However , it is Wales that I can paint with the greatest freedom . |
| 10 | Those countries which are least isomorphic in their institutional arrangements have the greatest freedom of movement and choice either way . |
| 11 | These were mainly people who had the greatest freedom to vary their hours of employment — those without families , the middle-aged , the wealthy , and rural workers . |
| 12 | To avoid this problem and to allow the greatest freedom of competition between financial institutions , the alternative is to use monetary base control with no statutory cash ratio . |
| 13 | " This Meeting , with every feeling of humanity for the distressed Sufferers , who have the misfortune to be shipwrecked on the coast of this Island , have to regret that numbers of the Country prople , shaking off all fear of God , or regard to the laws , are in the constant practice against every rule of Christian charity , or hospitality , of resorting in numbers to the shores , where strangers have the Misfortune of being shipwrecked , and that for the sole purpose of plunder ; which practice this Meeting hold in the greatest abhorrence , and now declare their disapprobation of ; and in order , as much as possible , to remedy this evil , this Meeting not only collectively , but individually , pledge themselves to use their utmost exertions , not only for the preservation of the property of the individuals , who may have the Misfortune to be wrecked on these coasts , but also for bringing to condign punishment all and every such persons as may be found plundering from wrecks : " |
| 14 | He has faced the toughest election of any Tory chairman for 20 years , while spending the afternoons dashing to Bath to defend his own marginal seat against a strong Liberal Democrat challenge . |
| 15 | The route to Dettifoss , the greatest waterfall in Europe ( fifty metres high and enormous in volume ) was still closed , and perhaps will not open this year due to the extraordinarily long and hard winter . |
| 16 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 17 | There are fitness worries concerning quarterback Troy Aikman after back surgery , and in the toughest division in the league — the NFC East — even this team of many talents might struggle for a repeat . |
| 18 | Buildings occupied by the PSP and by the Shiite militia Amal were also repossessed and on July 27 Hezbollah began evacuating its largest base in Lebanon — the Sheikh Abdullah Barracks in Bekaa , 70 km east of Beirut . |
| 19 | The Pearl Investor Confidence Index rose by 1.2 p.c. last month — its largest rise since August last year — to stand at its highest level since December . |
| 20 | The figures for the first quarter of 1990 showed an increase of 15 per cent on the corresponding period of 1989 , the largest rise in crime since records began in 1857 . |
| 21 | There was a dramatic fall in light industrial output , while savings went up by 133,400 million yuan , the largest rise ever . |
| 22 | In January 1990 , prices rose by 1.8 per cent , the largest rise in a single month on record . |
| 23 | Cold weather pushed up energy prices by 13.6 per cent and fuel oil prices rose by 25.3 per cent , the largest rise since the oil crisis of 1974 . |
| 24 | Crime has risen by an average of six per cent in England and Wales with the largest rise in rural areas . |
| 25 | Higher European interest rates were hardly the main concern of investors in Oslo , home of Europe 's second-best performing market this year . |
| 26 | A hastily convened Central Committee meeting fudged the question of 1956 , but not before Mr Pozsgay extracted the greatest concession possible : the green light to the multi-party system . |
| 27 | On a cold and very windy afternoon at Athletic Park it was far removed from a smiling task for Danaher to sit on the benches and watch his men concede an avalanche of tries , 11 in all , the greatest concession to any Irish opposition in 118 years of international participation . |
| 28 | I must have been the greatest bore ever , and it 's a wonder that those I inflicted my views upon did n't rebel . |
| 29 | But he is someone I have the greatest admiration for . |
| 30 | He is a man for whom I have the greatest admiration . |