Example sentences of "greatest [noun] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life .
2 Beethoven may have been the greatest genius of repetition in the history of music .
3 While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera .
4 The Midlands has the greatest concentration of motorways in the country — 350 miles which last year witnessed nearly a thousand serious or fatal accidents ,
5 The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise .
6 In fact aggro leaders are probably afforded the greatest degree of deference within the group and by novices as well .
7 Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side .
8 In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families .
9 There is little doubt that some of the greatest sources of evil in the world can be traced to the gross abuse of that area of human activity which is termed ‘ religion ’ .
10 It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction .
11 Prospects : A strategy which will secure the backing of the younger , more creative and more frustrated members of ( or aspirants to ) the élite , as well as the Armed forces and KGB ; a strategy with greatest prospects of survival over an extended period , although its potential will depend on how quickly the regime recognises the ‘ second economy ’ to be a ‘ necessary ’ and ‘ non-antagonistic ’ contradiction in a Socialist society .
12 ‘ In the greatest age of enlightenment in the history of this earth ?
13 High Elf Mages are the greatest practitioners of magic in the world , born of a race who have studied the power of magic throughout their long lives .
14 Perhaps the greatest number of casualties among the modern pharmaceuticals occurs in the realm of the antibiotics as one after another falls victim to the amazing abilities of bacteria to adapt to them , so that more new ones continually have to be developed .
15 Amongst these are the Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 at Paris , and the terrible collision on the ground at Tenerife between Pan American and KLM Boeing 747s which to this day accounts for the greatest number of fatalities in a single accident .
16 The Ben Hird Sword commemorates his seventy-two year association with the event , and is awarded for the greatest number of hits by a longbowman .
17 The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children .
18 On Nov. 1 the IDA , as the party with the greatest number of seats in the National Assembly , unanimously endorsed Sharif as Prime Minister , the first Punjabi to hold this office .
19 Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced .
20 Port Glasgow and Leith , the main centres of trade , were the ports with the best-paid officers , but equally , they would also require the greatest amount of work from the incumbents , who would be much more under the eye of the supervisory staff based at Edinburgh , which might well make a less well-paid , but remote , port more attractive to the more independent officers .
21 It was impossible to please everybody , but Anselm 's conduct in these affairs must be judged to have caused the greatest amount of dissatisfaction to the largest number of people .
22 With increasing travel to and from countries endemic for diphtheria , booster vaccinations of the adult population in western European countries may have to be reconsidered ; and health care workers , who are at greatest risk of exposure to the saliva of diphtheria patients , should be adequately immunised .
23 After all , the greatest input of heat from the Sun into the ‘ weather machine ’ is in the tropics , and cooling there can have the biggest impact on the workings of the whole machinery of climate and weather .
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