Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You called the half-mortals out of Andernesse , and broke the spell-wall which was the last and greatest protection against the dark . |
| 4 | In Flanders , where the cloth trade provided an urban-based industry , the transformation of small centres like Ghent , Ypres , and Lille into the greatest cities of northern Europe was startling . |
| 5 | This category has the least security , but the greatest freedom of manoeuvre . |
| 6 | Those countries which are least isomorphic in their institutional arrangements have the greatest freedom of movement and choice either way . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That was typical of Sam : although he was acknowledged to be one of the finest seamen in the village , he was still young , and reluctant to delegate the steering to members of his crew . |
| 11 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |
| 12 | It is one of the remarkable features of the Bible that it contains enough to occupy the greatest intellects for a lifetime , and yet the simplest soul can read and understand , and in reading with an obedient heart find God himself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In January 1990 , prices rose by 1.8 per cent , the largest rise in a single month on record . |
| 19 | Crime has risen by an average of six per cent in England and Wales with the largest rise in rural areas . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For generations Stoddard Templeton have selected only the very finest yarns from all over the world . |
| 22 | Coming up later we visit one of the finest palaces in the country which is hosting its first flower show . |
| 23 | But he is someone I have the greatest admiration for . |
| 24 | I had the greatest admiration for his music-making , especially his Bach , which has a special feel for tempo and design . |
| 25 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 26 | John Smeaton [ q.v. ] expressed the greatest admiration for Rudyerd 's work , which greatly benefited him when he built the third Eddystone light . |
| 27 | ‘ I have the greatest admiration for the Vanbrugh Quartet … their integrity and commitment ensure their continuing success . ’ |
| 28 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 29 | But the funniest part about it was in King George 's playing fields where the cricket club is at the beginning of the war that was a A R P assembly point for the A R P wardens . |
| 30 | Oh the funniest part about it was when he set these people 's thing . |