Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though hampered for lack of space ( the Guardian gives its readers much the shortest shrift in this respect ) , Selvey provides a lively account , brimming with inside knowledge . |
| 2 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 3 | Save The Children helps youngsters living and working on the streets , it runs schools where the poorest can get hot meals and lessons . |
| 4 | Low season — The time of year when business is at its quietest , usually the winter months when the lowest tariff prices are quoted . |
| 5 | Dependency levels rose between 1979 and 1990 in all but the geriatric sector , the greatest increases being found in private residential homes where the largest percentage increase in the number of residents had occurred . |
| 6 | For some decades now the lowest average fertility has been found , not at the top of the social scale , but among families where the husband is in social class IIIN ( clerical workers , clerks , salesmen ) . |
| 7 | The bicycle is cheap to buy and run and is in urban areas often the quickest door-to-door mode . |
| 8 | It may not sound like much to get excited about but for enthusiasts even the merest chance of a sighting is somehting worth turning out for . |
| 9 | Nothing could be more elegant or more brilliant than these smaller gatherings where the best of Parisian society could be found . |
| 10 | Significant increases in energy usage — of some 140% — will occur in Africa and South Asia , the areas where the poorest countries are to be found . |
| 11 | The two areas where the greatest change has taken place is in baits and approach . |
| 12 | After two days even the smallest decision could become an exhausting battle of wills . |
| 13 | I had not seen Um Hamed since those frightening days when the Youngest Son was in hospital . |
| 14 | In both cases inadequate research led to inadequate technical measures being launched and has , in places where the worst effects were felt , put both programmes back decades . |
| 15 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 16 | Only a handful of surgeons are able to carry out this procedure , but Mr Damato has done 300 such operations probably the largest total worldwide . |
| 17 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 18 | Some things even the best lawyers and lawmakers , the best women and mothers can not overturn . |
| 19 | Departmental heads were adept at concealing from their puppets even the gentlest jerk of strings and wire . |
| 20 | The other suggestion is that where the product under licence is technically advanced it is likely that it will be continually improved through innovation ; the sanction here is that if there are royalty payment problems then the latest innovation can be withheld . |
| 21 | Is it not a tidy state of affairs when the best that the 370-odd Tory Members can deliver in this place every Tuesday and Thursday and at other Question Times is a tirade of abuse about what Labour would do ? |
| 22 | For the rest , the difference principle allows deviations from an equal distribution of primary goods where the worst-off group will benefit from them . |
| 23 | McDonald 's uses only the best cuts of prime forequarter and flank meat , which is probably leaner than the minced beef you will find in some butcher 's shops . |
| 24 | Unlike cheaper gins , Gordon 's uses only the finest natural ingredients and has never used essences . |
| 25 | Gall bladder contraction was significantly ( p<0.05 ) weaker , however , in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy as compared with those without ( Fig 1 ) as in the former patients only the highest dose of cholecystokinin 8 induced a significant decrease of gall bladder volumes . |
| 26 | We are not unfamiliar with situations where the best we can do in practice is to assign probabilities , not because events are fundamentally acausal but because their detailed mechanism lies at a level too deep to be accessible to us . |
| 27 | Then we may see a reversal of the policies whereby the deepest roots of public health misery are often ignored . |
| 28 | At some frequencies even the best optical fibre available will absorb or scatter light , whereas at other frequencies they will pass light with almost no attenuation or scattering . |
| 29 | My prophecy is that if the powers that be do n't support the manager and buy players then the best manager Carrick have had since the glory days of Jimmy . |
| 30 | British Telecom plc 's BoaT project , with 50,000 users potentially the biggest office automation scheme currently afoot in Europe , has picked StaffWare as its workflow standard : BT is the first organisation to adopt the new Windows client/Unix server version of StaffWare . |