Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] [be] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through his instruction he was partly responsible for the 1649 Act Concerning Religion which was the earliest legislation in the English-speaking world that explicitly guaranteed toleration to all Christians . |
| 2 | ‘ Lovely ! ’ she would say as she cooked and ate it , with the little pursing of her lips and narrowing of her grey eyes which was the nearest she ever came to a smile or a laugh . |
| 3 | Other important activities in our advice development team , include fund raising advice , increasing access to national vocational qualifications and running a short course programme which is the largest programme of its kind in the country . |
| 4 | Some people might claim that this is the equivalent of a retreat from reality ; but I wonder if the world of the emotions is not more real than the superficial actions that men think of as reality and I wonder if the world of the mind which is the highest evolutionary factor of man is not more real than the ordinary facts that we are really so far from understanding . |
| 5 | I use Preservene 's White Snow which is the cheapest soap powder on the Australian market though there is a knack to using it as it is slow to dissolve , being fine lumps of pure soap . |
| 6 | And it was going downhill over the hard packed snow which was the worst bit , with me acting as a brake , hauling on a rope to keep the sledge from running forward into the horse 's heels . |
| 7 | And on its site , work has started on a new multi purpose complex which is the latest phase in the revitalisation of the village . |
| 8 | So having settled on Road , moved to Lane which was the nearest school , still in the juniors but by then our age would be nearly eleven , time to move onto a bigger school . |
| 9 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 10 | Each speaker has his or her own normal pitch range : a top level which is the highest pitch normally used by the speaker , and a bottom level that the speaker 's pitch normally does not go below . |
| 11 | It is also right next door to a brand new crazy golf course which is the biggest and best in Europe . |
| 12 | They spoke of ‘ an increasing displacement of the traditional curriculum in favour of new and artificial subjects ’ ; and they concluded that instead of such ‘ infantilizing ’ nonsense , ‘ the difficult subjects of the traditional curriculum are … the thing that is required if a child is to obtain either the competence necessary for a successful adult life , or the wider understanding and enriched experience which are the greatest benefits of education ’ . |
| 13 | its not only children 's programme , the young chap said to the bird expert which is the best er potatoes or bread ? , oh he says potatoes every time |
| 14 | Every living organism is thus constrained as a result of selection to live in what John Bowlby terms its ‘ environment of evolutionary adaptedness ’ , using stable strategies of exploitation which are the best available to it . |
| 15 | They 've shown that if you run it at the right speed and stuff it 's one of the most effective methods of doing it and erm the ones we say are the nice little plate compactors which are the best thing , they are useless in comparative performance so |
| 16 | College sports and leisure tutor John Dacey , who is organising the fund- raising , said : ‘ We were inspired to raise the money through seeing reports about Albania which is the poorest country in Europe . |
| 17 | That is , any information after the decision point must be irrelevant to the question which is the best path leading up to the decision point . |
| 18 | Well , we can now join our reporter Kim Barnes at Princes Risborough , Kim what 's the latest on Chiltern line services . |
| 19 | Er , he may be concerned but my Lord erm , there has been reference to the er the professional negligence and and my Lord there is a bit I have in court , I 'm afraid the second edition because the third edition which is the latest , was not available to me this morning , but there 's a paragraph in it and I want to refer your Lordship to it , I wonder if I might read it and er hand it up to your Lordship . |
| 20 | Nineteen eighty nine edition which is the latest existing in Your Lordship 's House and I found that that edition did reveal at what had happened since to subsec to Sections Two and Three . |
| 21 | For these two were emotionally fixated on that monster , bonded to it by sentiments which were the cruellest parody of love and of family attachment . |
| 22 | Yes erm now on erm Tuesday as I say we 've got five open races actually Peter , five open races on Tuesday , but erm one of the best erm things that happened to us is that the Pall Mall which is the biggest event erm in erm March , erm that 's being sponsored now by one of the track bookmakers called Max Thomas and the best thing about it is that erm he is erm putting in so much prize money with the major the supporting opens on our gala night , that erm there 's not a race worth in the open race , there 's not worth less than two hundred and erm there 's three races worth five hundred pounds each to the winner and the big race is worth five thousand so that 's an early erm plug for to keep in your diary , like the Pall Mall which is March the twenty third . |
| 23 | And those families which were the worst , being inns and alehouses , usually some persons in each house did seem to be religious . ’ |
| 24 | and the trade union movement , the liberation struggle , when you look at it it gives you great hope in terms of human capacity but they will need other kinds of help in order to reconstruct and let me say this because it is important and I do n't say it with any kind of arrogance we have one kind of miracle occurring in South Africa that people ignore and that is that out of the hell of racism we have produced a leadership which is the strongest leadership in the world against racism . |
| 25 | Their place is taken by geodesics which are the straightest lines that can be drawn between a pair of points in a curved space and as such have no component of curvature in that space . |
| 26 | Broomhead Smith had managed to get Aggie Temple a tabby tomcat which was the best mouser in the Borough , so he told her . |
| 27 | The eyes … sometimes looking bewildered , even desperate , but I think it was the horrible bright lights which are the worst part of it all . |
| 28 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the latest annual rate of inflation . |
| 29 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is the latest International Monetary Fund forecast for growth in United Kingdom business fixed investment in 1991 . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what are the latest figures for aid and other financial support for the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States . |