Example sentences of "the [adj -est] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lamont insisted that the Conservatives were committed to helping the poorest families over VAT on domestic fuels . |
| 2 | The study of hospital patients by Ferguson and MacPheal concluded as follows : ‘ The ex-patients who showed the heaviest mortality at early ages , the strongest tendency to relapse and the poorest record in point of early return to work were the group of unskilled labourers . ’ |
| 3 | The route will also take you to some of the finest areas of heathland in the country and will include a tea stop at Clumber Park Tea Rooms . |
| 4 | France , in contrast , had some fine Romanesque architecture , especially of Norman character , but established Gothic construction very early , producing probably the finest quality of building in this style to be found anywhere in the world . |
| 5 | If you want the best Basmati rice , look for Tilda Basmati , Brown Basmati and Easy Cook Basmati : Tilda selects its Basmati from its own highly trained buyers who purchase only the finest quality of Basmati from the season 's crop . |
| 6 | The race had started on a wet track — it is almost never dry for a whole weekend in Holland — and Hunt 's victory resulted from the finest sort of judgement about when to come in and change his wet tyres to slicks . |
| 7 | The occasional aberration in judgment aside , the curbing regulation has been not merely a success but possibly the finest piece of administration in modern times . |
| 8 | Estonia , for instance , had the largest deposits of shale in the Soviet Union , and very considerable deposits of phosphorite and limestone ; but their rapid exploitation in the interests of the Soviet economy as a whole had led to serious environmental damage and to water pollution in particular . |
| 9 | Not exactly the opposite end of the scale , but rather a complementary event designed to include a wider range of objects with an emphasis on attractive decorative objects at reasonable prices , the Fine Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia celebrates its twentieth year of existence with the largest event to date from 3 to 13 June . |
| 10 | — is the largest species of woodpecker in Britain . |
| 11 | By far the largest portion of time in Art teaching is taken up with painting . |
| 12 | Perhaps surprisingly the country which on balance has experienced the largest deficit in trade on a manufacturing basis with the EC is France . |
| 13 | The initial reaction had been an assumption that shares would fall on the back of the changes in Advanced Corporation Tax and tax credits on dividends which , to put it simplistically , will suck £1 billion out of Britain 's pension funds , the largest providers of equity for industry . |
| 14 | This was one of the largest sales to date in the government 's sweeping privatization programme , and Bancomer was the eighth bank to be auctioned in 1991 ; all had sold for two or three times their book value . |
| 15 | The region also has one of the largest concentrations of wildlife in the world . |
| 16 | East London was especially fortunate due to proximity to the largest concentration of wealth in the country , the remainder of London . |
| 17 | South America has the largest concentration of rainforest including Brazil , Equador , Paraguay , Colombia , Peru , Guyana , Surinam and Costa Rica . |
| 18 | The firm expanded its activities still further under his direction and became the largest employer of labour in Oldham , the workforce rising from 400 in 1837 to 6,000 in 1870 . |
| 19 | A major counter-demonstration , organized on Sept. 24 by the Democratic Charter Movement , involved a march by some 50,000 people to the National Assembly , and other marches in provincial towns , the largest protest to date against the recent rise of the far right and the related increase in racist attacks . |
| 20 | The Christian Democratic Party ( DC ) , the largest party in Parliament since 1948 , had experienced internal dissent , including that which had led to the formation of La Rete ( " The Network " ) as a new national political force [ see pp. 38481-82 ] . |
| 21 | Although the compact Mont Blanc range and the long frontier chain of the Pennine Alps boast higher summits , the Bernese Alps contain the largest area of glacier in the Alps and a concentration of great peaks . |
| 22 | A weekly competition at DPR awarded 1100 and a bottle of champagne to the AE who got in the largest amount of money over the five days . |
| 23 | Brazil is the largest producer of coffee in the world . |
| 24 | Since the kidneys produce the largest volume of urine in the middle of the day , any drug that is being removed will be least concentrated in the urine , and so be least likely to cause damage , at this time . |
| 25 | By 1985 , the UK was the largest exporter of NOx in northwestern Europe and the biggest contributor to NOx pollution at sites in Iceland , Ireland , Norway , Sweden , Belgium , the Netherlands and Denmark . |
| 26 | Housing rents are the largest source of income under this heading , but many other services show some income . |
| 27 | Relations with New Zealand and Australia , traditionally the largest source of aid for Fiji , improved somewhat but remained strained . |
| 28 | The most serious impact on the community sector has been cuts in local authority spending — the largest source of revenue for most local organisations . |
| 29 | Tourism remained the largest source of revenue in San Marino , contributing around 60 per cent to the gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 30 | As the bath is the largest piece of furniture in the room , it makes sense to think about this first . |