Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can get back 80% of the total gross SSP you have paid in the tax month . |
| 2 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 3 | From where he was sitting by the narrow little window he had a view of the meagre garden and beyond it , in the distance , a huge white bull in a field of white heifers . |
| 4 | Alice went up to her room , and squatted down in the corner where her bed had been , the narrow white bed she had slept in since she was ten years old . |
| 5 | In response to the prevailing economic conditions it has withdrawn from peripheral businesses and has focused on the core activities represented by its silver products . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's the nicest young man I 've ever met . ’ |
| 7 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He was one of the nicest young men you could wish to meet , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 9 | Through the United Nations and the European Economic Community we shall certainly be doing all that we can to encourage the social reforms — for example , the reform of land ownership — to which the hon. Gentleman referred . |
| 10 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 11 | But on longer-term issues such as membership of the European Monetary System she remained hostile . |
| 12 | Over such key issues as the European Common Market he had followed a prudent , unadventurous course , only moving to endorse membership at the last moment when political circumstances seemed so to dictate . |
| 13 | Besides , Georgina must know that Fowler-Thrown and Ivor were rivals ; and that was the blandest possible construction you could put on their relationship . |
| 14 | He sought out Caratacus and stormed the strong defensive position he had chosen , but the British commander escaped , as did many of the British warriors , and attempted to win Cartimandua to his cause . |
| 15 | And if African destitution has its roots in this shameful period of depopulation , so too does what was to become a family 's main defense against the poverty enforced on those left to fend for themselves without the strong young bodies they had counted on . |
| 16 | Polly laid her palms against the strong hard face she loved so much , knowing exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life . |
| 17 | This is obviously too short to be considered a day 's walk so if you 're sticking to the low level route you should link straight in to Day 11 by following the road from Elterwater to Grasmere . |
| 18 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , since it is of the finest Swiss cotton I 'm afraid it wo n't , my pet . |
| 20 | A take away and caff at the South end of the main street near sign posts in miles and furlongs , also unique in our experience it serves the finest battered cod we can ever recall eating . |
| 21 | He could smell fish cooking and wondered if it was Faustina 's coley , then realised that in view of the conversation about the finest minced veal it was more likely to be something for themselves . |
| 22 | Mr Wesley had kindly words to say about the people of the little town and neighbourhood and there is no harm in reminding ourselves of what he thought about or predecessors : ‘ They have in general the finest natural tempers I ever knew ; they have the softness and courtesy of the Irish , with the seriousness of the Scotch and the openness of the English . ’ |
| 23 | he was the finest fast bowler I ever saw . |
| 24 | A mortgage may be the largest financial commitment you will make in your life , but that does n't mean it has to ruin it . |
| 25 | She wore new black button-up boots and on her head was perched the largest black hat I had ever seen with a black bird on top . |
| 26 | I wore black stockings , tight skirts from Leeds C & A cheaper separates , the largest black sweater I could find and black high heels . |
| 27 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 28 | I saw the largest bare belly I 'd ever seen in life . |
| 29 | Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out . |
| 30 | And tied around the oak tree was the largest yellow ribbon I 'd yet seen . |