Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest freedom is to be responsible . |
| 2 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 3 | He decided the wisest course was to pool all he had made over the last two years , enabling Julian to purchase the lease of a high street property . |
| 4 | The largest uptake is for the subjects in the Final section , which are common to the Pre-Associateship Route . |
| 5 | Fighter Command 's finest hour was of course the Battle of Britain , but this book gives the whole story of the men and the machines from its formation in 1936 until its absorption into Strike Command in 1968 . |
| 6 | Never hard , the greatest difficulty was in avoiding the results of clumsy ice technique . |
| 7 | But David Beaton 's greatest worry was for Hector . |
| 8 | The largest reduction was in the number of elderly casualties . |
| 9 | Note that the greatest losses are through roof and walls , so these are the major areas to deal with . |
| 10 | His greatest ambition was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 11 | The greatest effect is in Indomalesia , where some 85 000 km 2 are thought to be lost each year . |
| 12 | It was n't much , and they would take it in their stride , no doubt , but apart from the fact these revenge raids certainly did upset his Tormentors a little , making life and their cruel purpose just that little bit less easy for them , the greatest effect was on him . |
| 13 | The clearest demonstration is on a big calyx-krater from Orvieto , by an artist known as the Niobid Painter after the picture on the back of this vase . |
| 14 | The new Braun 5100 Cafetière is to coffee what the world 's greatest orchestras are to a symphony by Mozart , Mendelssohn or Mahler . |
| 15 | The point seems to be that Macbeth 's greatest crime is in tampering with the future . |
| 16 | One of our longest contracts is at George Outram in Glasgow , publishers of the Glasgow Herald and Evening Times , where Mary Mulgrew is something of an institution . |
| 17 | On his brief visit to Cambodia he met Dith Pran for the first time , but his longest stretch was from the beginning of January 1975 until the fall of Phnom Penh in April of that year . |
| 18 | And are n't most mothers in the 90s planning to return to some form of work outside the home by the time their youngest child is at school full-time ? |
| 19 | The keenest battle was between brothers Colin and Owen Jelf … no brotherly love lost here . |
| 20 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 21 | ‘ One of my strongest memories is of my last match at Lord 's . |
| 22 | Alison was a little coy about how much her Russian dress cost , but , according to the staff at David Fielden , their cheapest frock is at least £1,000 . |
| 23 | Generation Ecologie 's strongest performance was in the Ile de France region where they won 10.69 per cent of the vote . |
| 24 | Strongest connections are with commercial stations but progress has been slowed due to the continuing uncertainty over franchises . |
| 25 | He says the stiffest competition is from Aix Les Bains in France , with it 's backdrop of mountains and lakes . |
| 26 | Statistically the strongest correlation was between understanding of the market and commercial success . |
| 27 | Our strongest drive is towards rediscovering our wholeness — and however much we try to ignore it , the impulse to grow will keep coming to the surface . |
| 28 | Overall the strongest correlations are with clarity of problem definition , clarity of problem understanding and completeness of information . |
| 29 | Although baptized and buried in Anglican churches , his strongest links were with the Abney Congregational church , which he had largely financed . |
| 30 | The strongest chapters are on Indonesia and the Philippines , with their extraordinary proliferation of élite units , whose title-changes over the years are clearly sorted out . |