Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An examination of the naming patterns used by the Titfords of Frome would suggest at a cursory glance that every eldest son was named after his paternal grandfather , as a matter of course . |
| 2 | There was disappointment that the best structure for our educational future was an unimaginative list of subjects , and fear that testing would turn the clock back even further . |
| 3 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 4 | It is a widely held prejudice that the closest boxing gets to Art is that the guy who holds the towels at ringside might just be called that . |
| 5 | Has anyone else noticed how , in the player interviews in the match programme , everyone so far has said without fail that the funniest player at Elland Road is our Jon . |
| 6 | The basic subjects that the best courses address are : finance , health , activity , leisure , housing and the adjustments which will need to be made by both you and your family when you retire . |
| 7 | As we shall see , it was in these two schools that the largest measurable changes of attitude and option choice occurred . |
| 8 | And in the same year the First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes of the greatest of all English lutenists , John Dowland ( 1563–1626 ) , was printed ‘ with Tableture for the Lute : So made that all the parts together , or either of them severally may be song to the Lute , Orpherian [ a species of cittern , tuned like a lute ] or Viol de Gambo ’ , a confused description which conceals the condition that the highest part must be sung . |
| 9 | Ironically , it is obviously during recession that the greatest demands are made on the social security budget as needs explodes . |
| 10 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 11 | It might now be the case that the best guarantee of future oil supplies lies in the mutual economic interests that exist between Arab oil exporting economies and the industrial North . |
| 12 | So much is this the case that the best emeralds exceed diamonds of comparable size in value . |
| 13 | No matter how unpromising the immediate situation may seem , they have an unshakable hope that the best is yet to come . |
| 14 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |
| 15 | So find the right angle which is usually pretty obvious and the side opposite that the longest side is the hypotenuse which is a long word . |
| 16 | In 1534 William Tyldesley advised Lord Lisle that the best means of getting a favourable answer to his requests would be a letter to some of his friends in the Privy Chamber or to the Lord Chamberlain . |
| 17 | It was no coincidence that the largest CND march from Aldermaston to Trafalgar Square took place that Easter . |
| 18 | Is n't it , perhaps , a notable historical coincidence that the greatest European novelist of the nineteenth century should be introduced at the Pyramids to one of the twentieth century 's most notorious fictional characters ? |
| 19 | But 1990 half-year results showed signs that the worst was over . |
| 20 | Justice is a matter of outcomes : a political decision causes injustice , however fair the procedures that produced it , when it denies people some resource , liberty , or opportunity that the best theories of justice entitle them to have . |
| 21 | Now I know the old adage that the best way to discover this kind of information is to experiment , but this video offers you a series of starting points that will definitely save you a good amount of time in the long run . |
| 22 | But , of all times , it is in dead , dark winter that the best of the variegated evergreens come into their own . |
| 23 | But it is in the complex configuration of slopes , dips and valleys immediately behind the village that the greatest vines of Aÿ are found . |
| 24 | It is my little pet theory about religious poetry that the greatest religious poetry is an act of renunciation and therefore what you have to do is put in what you 're giving away . |
| 25 | Real opportunities have been missed by rejecting our suggestion that a supervisory statutory committee should be formed , rejecting the idea of choice to opt into these ’ services ’ , rejecting the proposal that the worst of these ’ services ’ should be removed and by rejecting the simple principle of direct billing . |
| 26 | A comprador mentality is the attitude that the best practices are invariably connected with the global capitalist system . |
| 27 | Does the Minister agree with the almost unanimous view of the disability lobby that the best way to protect the rights of disabled people would be to introduce anti-discrimination legislation now ? |
| 28 | It is in these far-reaching acres of wilderness that the greatest glory of the country is to be found — the untamed wildlife which proliferates here . |
| 29 | But I am sure that , as a reasonable man , he will agree on reflection that the wisest course of action for the Government is to continue to support the secretary-general 's efforts . |
| 30 | It also needs to be backed up by simple guidelines , and supported by detailed product information : there is no question that the best and most effective advertising is based squarely in a complete understanding of the product . |