Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun sg] [conj] [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly the greatest compliment that could be paid to the PFF — and that accidentally — was near the end of the war when the Command was strong enough for each Group to mount an attack on a single target , but generally supported by the full paraphernalia of hard-won pathfinding techniques . |
| 2 | In 1843 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society , the greatest honour that could be conferred upon a scientist , and one rarely given to a zoologist . |
| 3 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 4 | John McCorquodale visited Islay , where he was born , to take leave of his relations before emigrating to Canada in 1855 and in the short entry in his diary describes Dun Nosbridge as " the prettiest hill that can be seen anywhere . |
| 5 | John McCorquodale visited Islay , where he was born , to take leave of his relations before emigrating to Canada in 1855 and in the short entry in his diary describes Dun Nosbridge as " the prettiest hill that can be seen anywhere . |
| 6 | ‘ The worst mistake that could be made is for the rich to apply conditionality to new aid and loans . ’ |
| 7 | He was somewhat taken aback by this honour and we were quick to explain that this was the finest tribute that could be paid to both Normans . |
| 8 | 9 Find the area of the largest square that could be made using 64 metres of fencing . |
| 9 | I believe that the smallest area that will be considered by the commission at any one time will be a county , with the possible exception of certain islands . |
| 10 | 10 What is the smallest number that can be divided by 1 8 or 30 and leave the remainder 5 ? |
| 11 | The highest award that could be given in peacetime at that time , the Albert Medal , was confined largely to members of the armed forces . |
| 12 | the thinnest rule that can be printed . |
| 13 | TO THE Indians , he is Txai , a blood brother — the highest honour that can be conferred on a white man . |
| 14 | Avice Cam deserved the highest honour that could be given for service to others . |
| 15 | As the highest degree that can be awarded , it proclaims that the recipient is worthy of being listened to as an equal by the appropriate university faculty . ’ |
| 16 | When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position . |
| 17 | So far you have been finding the highest number that can be divided into each example without leaving a remainder . |
| 18 | 18 Find the highest number that can be divided into 18 , 30 25 and 42 without leaving a remainder . |
| 19 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 20 | Alumasc Systems offer the highest standard and can be supplied in plain finish or in ten standard polyester powder coatings , plus many other special colours to order . |
| 21 | 2 x 3 or 6 is the biggest number that can be divided into both 12 and 18 without leaving a remainder . |
| 22 | Because of this Barro treats as the best prediction that could be made by rational agents of the value of . |
| 23 | I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army . |
| 24 | And I think the main question , and the best question that could be asked to the audience if they really |
| 25 | For those examples that have been described so far , the best advice that can be given to individuals is to help them to strengthen their time-cues and to take more notice of them . |
| 26 | The closest comparison that can be made to tonight 's match is the final game played by Scotland when winning their European Championship qualifying group . |
| 27 | Two bedrooms and the best furniture that could be made in the Factory . |
| 28 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 29 | It 's probably the best training that can be done . |
| 30 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |