Example sentences of "the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government rejected the highest offer , fudged the auction rules , then accepted a revised offer from the third-highest bidder , who was given 26% of the bank 's shares . |
| 2 | The film sticks to the same ‘ kid beats dumb robbers ’ formula which made the original Home Alone the third-highest grossing movie of all time and top comedy with takings of over £330 million worldwide . |
| 3 | A half-hour subway ride into Brooklyn , it has the third-highest incidence of drug-related crimes in America . |
| 4 | Norway , with the third-highest tax burden in 1989 , had an annual average growth rate of 3.1 % in the period 1976–91 , nearly 25% above the OECD average of 2.5% per annum , and ranked as high as second in terms of growth rate . |
| 5 | The 1992 profits were the third-highest in Vauxhall 's history and compare with a 1991 pre-tax figure of £132.6 million . |
| 6 | They accept , in other words , ‘ a natural duty ’ to pursue the best-founded moral ideal . |
| 7 | His line on playing live is one of the canniest you can come across : ‘ There 's always one element that 's not quite right . |
| 8 | He shook his head , but she found the delicious-looking cakes too irresistible , and just had to sample the gooiest-looking one of all . |
| 9 | Because of their heavy running costs , the big companies have a built-in disposition towards the type of popular music which is capable of the widest-possible appeal . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember thinking Hawaiian music was so bad , the corniest shit in the world . |
| 11 | it hurts are when we grab the moment for ourselves , nearly — the corniest sunset , taste of a lover 's tears , a fistful of snow |
| 12 | It was the corniest , happiest , most affectionate movie I 'd seen in years . |
| 13 | Perhaps unwittingly , the new statue hints at a deeper truth underpinning the hardline triumph : the worker , the peasant and the intellectual gaze wistfully towards the Forbidden City , the grandest monument to the genius of Chinese civilisation , but the soldier has his eyes fixed in a different direction — down the Avenue of Eternal Peace towards Zhongnanhai , the walled compound where party leaders live and work . |
| 14 | ( Restaurant advertisement , translated by T C Lai ) THE FRENCH gastronomic journal , Gault-Millau , caused major ructions this summer by applying its critical eye to the grandest of Hong Kong 's hotel restaurants . |
| 15 | A big , physically powerful lawyer born into the most distinguished of the half-dozen Hong Kong families with a genuine claim to ‘ old money ’ status , T S Lo was by his early forties one of the grandest figures in the colonial establishment . |
| 16 | If there is shame in this story , it is less that the Marcoses finally stood revealed as nobodies and as thieves on the grandest scale , and far more in the wasted opportunities . |
| 17 | But perhaps the grandest shopping to be had in the area is at the Victoria Quarter . |
| 18 | In the context of hospitality and friendship , little and often is worth more than the grandest of annual social jamborees . |
| 19 | In the summer of 1721 , Freville Lambton spent much time at Seaton Delaval , the grandest house in Britain , which Vanbrugh was building . |
| 20 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 21 | For this building , in which everything is done in the grandest and strangest way , Mr Subirachs is making 75 pieces that trace the Passion of Christ . |
| 22 | Freshfields 's new marbled offices off Fleet Street would pique the ego of the grandest City banker . |
| 23 | Chatsworth is the grandest of gardens , with canals , fountains , cascades and magnificent glasshouses within a 1,000 park . |
| 24 | These trees clustered everywhere in dense clumps , and they were the grandest of all , arrogant and yet familiar , noisy but amiable . |
| 25 | The grandest MP to remain in the Commons today is Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , brother of the Duke of Hamilton , a former Oxford boxer and author . |
| 26 | Deciding to become involved in politics , he first sought out Lord Plowden , one of the grandest figures of the Great and Good , who had spent the thirty years since the war as one of Whitehall 's most distinguished gofers . |
| 27 | He has that ingrained self-confidence most commonly attributed to the grandest old Etonians , although he failed to win a scholarship there and ended up at Charterhouse . |
| 28 | The grandest idea of all , however , was never attempted , even though , according to North , Reagan had thought it ‘ great ’ . |
| 29 | The grandest exposition of the Grand Iranian Design was given on November 14th , 1986 , just after the operation had been disclosed . |
| 30 | A remarkable hydraulic lift still plies the cliff face between the high promenade and the pier , and there are some imposing villas , but the grandest of grand hotels has been turned into flats . |