Example sentences of "of the [adj -est] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indicative of the lowest level of Merovingian legislation is the first book of the Formulary compiled by Marculf around the year 700 . |
| 2 | They reject the " most vulnerable person " standard of Hicklin , with its preoccupation with those members of society of the lowest level of intellectual or moral discernment . |
| 3 | Henry Fielding wrote of the capital in 1751 : " What an immense variety of places has this town and its neighbourhood set apart for the amusement of the lowest order of the people . " |
| 4 | Thus Oke ( 1978 ) emphasized the physical basis of physical , topo- , local- , meso- and regional climates in the boundary layer climates of the lowest kilometre of the atmosphere , then proceeded to deal with natural climates of non-vegetated and vegetated surfaces , topographically affected climates and the climates of animals , and then progressed to man-modified environments embracing conscious and unconscious modification of boundary-layer climates particularly those including urban climates . |
| 5 | The police had no organizational link with the courts , despite the designation of the lowest tier of the judicial system as ‘ police courts ’ . |
| 6 | Members of the lowest stratum in stratification systems which provide little opportunity for improvement of status tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards life . |
| 7 | Blacks are now moving out of the lowest stratum in ever increasing numbers . |
| 8 | ( The water will spurt out of the lowest hole with a stronger jet than from the top hole , and so demonstrate water pressure . ) |
| 9 | A similar picture emerges if the gross earnings of the lowest decile of manual workers is compared with those of the highest decile of non-manual workers , i.e. if the two extremes of the earnings distribution are compared . |
| 10 | Between 1979 and 1987 the median gross weekly earnings of the lowest decile of male manual workers increased by 92 per cent in cash terms , as compared with the highest paid non-manual decile whose incomes increased by 150 per cent . |
| 11 | Er but is my honourable aware that employment prospects in Amber valley were devastated by pit closures mainly in the nineteen seventies but that now the area , but that now the area has some of the lowest unemployment in Europe , certainly lower than in Germany and the reason is mainly due to the success of new manufacturing businesses . |
| 12 | Sedgefield Tory candidate Nick Jopling whose father Michael has long occupied a safe seat at Westminster has been telling the Diary the poignant story of the lowest point of his life . |
| 13 | ‘ Our region has one of the lowest number of long-wait patients anywhere in the country . |
| 14 | The ascertainment of the nearest approximation of cost gives rise to two problems : ( a ) The selection of an appropriate method for relating costs to stocks ( such as job costing , batch costing , process costing , standard costing ) . |
| 15 | On knowledge of the nearest station to Bishop 's Castle : |
| 16 | I found only 35 per cent of the books in the catalogue of the nearest library of this standard . |
| 17 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 18 | This had been the basic premise of a proposal made in late August by the Netherlands ( holder of the presidency of the Council of Ministers in the second half of 1991 ) specifying four conditions for economic convergence : ( i ) a high degree of price stability , indicated by a level of inflation close to that of the best-performing state for a two-year period ; ( ii ) a sustainable government financial position , indicated by budget deficits deemed not to be excessive ; ( iii ) currency within the 2.5 per cent fluctuation margins of the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European Monetary System for at least two years without devaluation against other member state 's currency ; and ( iv ) a close approximation of comparable interest rates to those member states with the best performance in terms of price stability . |
| 19 | ALAN SHEARER will this season take on the burden of the highest-priced player in Britain — and it could break him . |
| 20 | Every night the footman on duty had to place a bottle of the best champagne by the side of Mr Field 's bed and it was invariably empty by the morning . |
| 21 | Some of the best evidence for sophisticated residual pattern vision after visual cortex ablation comes from work on tree shrews which can relearn some pattern discriminations after total removal of primary visual cortex ( Kiltackey , Snyder , and Diamond 1971 ) . |
| 22 | On the contrary , some of the best evidence for the presence of a linear graduation process has come from the biographical material given by samples of fans in the three major groups . |
| 23 | While some of the clearest evidence for localization of function came from neurological studies on humans with damaged or disturbed brains , some of the best evidence against it came from experimental studies on animals . |
| 24 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 25 | He won nine successive England caps and is regarded as one of the best man to man markers in the game by Taylor , who was with Keown when he was at Aston Villa . |
| 26 | This was attended by the daughters of the best society in Funchal until she closed it in 1892 . |
| 27 | Did my right hon. Friend see the survey in The Sunday Times which showed that some Welsh-medium schools offer excellent education — some of the best education in the whole of the United Kingdom ? |
| 28 | The broader issue is how can some of the best education in primary schools be identified , preserved and promoted in the age of the Education Reform Act . |
| 29 | There are two of the finest sandy beaches in the Med and some of the best nightlife in the world . |
| 30 | That night we sat round the campfire telling stories of great daring , of man against nature , of strange beasts in the wilderness , of the best pizza in San Francisco , while listening to the coyotes howl . |