Example sentences of "the [adj] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 2 | This can be provided by the magic power or words , such as inscribing prohibitions into the nation 's constitution , and by manifestations of the divine in terms of either retribution for failing to uphold the truth , or grace for upholding the truth , with rewards ‘ such as oil finds and victories in the World Championships ’ . |
| 3 | He was due to meet de Gaulle on the 15th at Rambouillet in an attempt to soften the General 's opposition to Britain 's entry into the EEC ; and then to fly to Nassau on the 18th to meet President Kennedy for wide-ranging talks , including East-West relations , the backwash of the Cuban missile crisis , improvement of India 's defences against China , the Congo Civil War , and , most important of all , the proposed Nuclear Test Ban Treaty . |
| 4 | A second measure was also taken in this study which may provide information relevant to subjects ’ expectations , this was a measure of how well each subject previously knew the each of junctions in the films . |
| 5 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 6 | His demenour ( sic ) — he resembled the poorest of travellers in the last throes of sartorial disintegration — will also continue to present a massive career drawback for him . |
| 7 | Consumer credit , they said , could help even the poorest in society with planning their household expenditure . |
| 8 | The juice from this residue , called the taille , is the poorest in terms of quality which may be used for Champagne . |
| 9 | That was the strong inside bet from Central Park yesterday as the champions angrily denied they had made a move for Sydney St George coach Brian Smith to succeed Monie . |
| 10 | He took the finest of lines round the trees at the 13th before hitting the green with a perfectly struck long iron for his four and then was in luck at the 14th . |
| 11 | They will be able to relax in leather-upholstered comfort in the stylish bar before repairing to the dining room to enjoy the finest of food from the estate 's own farms . |
| 12 | The rooms are claimed to be the largest on offer in London , averaging 50 sq metres . |
| 13 | The county is the largest by area in England , it borders two conurbations to the North and South , it 's unique environmentally , both in its natural and built form . |
| 14 | The Faculty of Divinity of Edinburgh University is one of the largest in Britain with a variety of Christian traditions represented among both staff and students . |
| 15 | The mill progressed well and became one of the largest in Britain before the war . |
| 16 | The oil refinery is being expanded into one of the largest in Europe with a vast petro-chemical industry . |
| 17 | The refugee crisis arising from the conflict in the former Yugoslavia is the largest in Europe since the Second World War . |
| 18 | The sundial on a cottage in North End was made in the 1840s and is said to be the largest in England with its twelve ft diameter . |
| 19 | The party had been the largest in parliament for most years until 1966 , and had been in government ( usually with the Social Democrats ) almost constantly until 1987 . |
| 20 | Monday-to-Friday peak-hour trains — the 07.25 from Manchester to Euston and the 16.30 back to Manchester are cases in point — will always load well , but the stock providing these two services will also make two midday trips for which custom may be sparse . |
| 21 | She felt the merest of touches on her hair and then she was being slowly turned around . |
| 22 | By the time of the spread of the railways in the second quarter of the nineteenth century , the industrial map of Britain was in its main outlines already drawn — a sequence unique in the history of industrialisation and the clearest of testimonies to the role of canals . |
| 23 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
| 24 | Now he could smell the burnt-phosphorous of tracer in the air . |
| 25 | The problem position , of course , is fly-half — the berth that has given Ireland the greatest of difficulties over the past few seasons . |
| 26 | The artist , especially if he has only one specimen to work from and can not therefore generalize , must paint what he sees ; the greatest of artists in this line will , however , agree with Josef Wolf that ‘ we see distinctly only what we know thoroughly ’ , a maxim he adapted from Goethe . |
| 27 | In the end the birth went very smoothly , with the greatest of care from two sensitive , skilled and kind midwives at the Sorrento . |
| 28 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 29 | With the greatest of respect to Middlesbrough and Stockton , they do not , as yet , have that appeal . |
| 30 | Meditation corrects life 's errors of parallax , for it contrasts the present the eternal against verities of one 's own being . |