Example sentences of "the [adj -est] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also emerged that a $400,000 donation , the largest made at the dinner , was from Michael Kojima , a heavily indebted businessman who was being pursued by numerous creditors . |
| 2 | This year 's donations were the largest given in a single year . |
| 3 | In the later years , however , these issues were pitched at optimistically low interest rates : the last BEA issue , of £200 millions in August 1955 ( among the largest seen by the London market ) , was left largely in government hands . |
| 4 | His verdict on low-alcohol and alcohol-free beer was among the politest gleaned by a vox-pop of South London drinkers . |
| 5 | Because we were one of the lowest pays in the factory which we do n't , our section does n't think it 's right because |
| 6 | IT IS said that the marketing and advertising course is now the hardest to enter in the University of Ulster , requiring ‘ A ’ -level grades that would have sent my generation scurrying off with aspirations of entering Oxford or Cambridge and a career in the fast track of the Civil Service . |
| 7 | If the worst came to the worst he could cook it himself . |
| 8 | I had thought that , if the worst came to the worst , I could always follow the hillside and make my way down to the bottom . |
| 9 | If the worst came to the worst , she could fire it with both hands . |
| 10 | On the one hand Europe favoured détente , but on the other , they also needed US protection and were concerned that , if the worst came to the worst , Carter would not be prepared to go to war to save Europe . |
| 11 | If the worst came to the worst he would cut his numbers , take the orchestra straight over Karl 's sections and leave him standing . |
| 12 | So we 've er we felt that was we only had to cope with if the worst came to the worst . |
| 13 | ‘ If the worst came to the worst — no , do n't get worked up again , she is quite elderly , after all — you 'd still have Martin . |
| 14 | If the worst came to the worst and we did get another president , I would do it , but I 'd rather have a break for a little while . |
| 15 | I mean if the worst comes to the worst , we 'll sort of , cancel a lecture , or something |
| 16 | If the worst comes to the worst I can do without that . |
| 17 | If the worst comes to the worst Dave 's found a place where we can get new tyres for about twenty five quid each for the M G. |
| 18 | I told her it I says she do n't wan na lose this child , I said if the worst comes to the worst she 'll have it herself . |
| 19 | The real war was waged against nettle and bramble — now there you really could persuade yourself that some malign force was at work , set upon reducing the whole place to a rank and thrusting wilderness , in which the weakest went to the wall . |
| 20 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 21 | It was a notable achievement by 24-year-old Stich , who has slipped from third to 15th in the world rankings since his 1991 Wimbledon triumph , while Krajicek , with the biggest serve in the world game , is the up and coming star , having just moved into the top 10 . |
| 22 | The two devices are among the biggest detonated on the mainland . |
| 23 | The best to deal with a cut ball is to replace it under Rule 28 . |
| 24 | BRUCE GLEE CLOWNING Bruce Grobbelaar is the best to cope with the new law banning back passes . |
| 25 | A very hardy Aponogeton , and one of the best to grow in the aquarium . |
| 26 | The Farm Animal Welfare Council is the latest to call for a phasing out of the system . |
| 27 | Modern medical technology suggests that Mr Souness 's operation should not be life threatening but his predicament indicates he has become the latest to succumb to the strain of football management . |
| 28 | One of the latest comes from the Ecclesiastical insurance group and it is a freestanding AVC , ie , it is not linked in with your company pension scheme . |
| 29 | Studying the results of the general election of 1974 , the latest held before the publication of its Report , the Commission could have come across some disconcerting figures . |
| 30 | The evidence for overseas exchange , particularly in one direction , is the easiest to observe in the archaeological record , although we should not believe that the details are yet fully understood . |