Example sentences of "was [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson had been kidnapped in March 1985 [ see p. 33685 ] and was the longest-held Western hostage . |
| 2 | ‘ It was the lowest point of my life I 'd sold everything to do this trip . ’ |
| 3 | That was the lowest rate of increase since March 1971 , but was still faster than the growth in money supply . |
| 4 | If ‘ Fred ’ was the lowest strata of my well of strength , others come in rapid succession . |
| 5 | At Newcastle an old stone bridge with low arches was the lowest bridging point on the Tyne . |
| 6 | Neighbourhood satisfaction was the lowest of all North Side neighbourhoods . |
| 7 | It was the lowest cause of overindebtedness , less than two per cent of people 's commitments . |
| 8 | ‘ It was the lowest point of my life . |
| 9 | In her mind it was the ultimate degradation , and any man who could live off the proceeds of it was the lowest of the low . |
| 10 | None of the BUF candidates was elected and the Fascist vote in Shoreditch , at 14 per cent , was the lowest of all . |
| 11 | In 1933 fertility was the lowest ever recorded until the 1970s . |
| 12 | The yield was the lowest that he had ever experienced but the price was the highest , which resulted in the best return ever from the crop . |
| 13 | Known in due course as the Deep , or Horse Level , it was the lowest tunnel which could conveniently be driven and still serve the new Bonsor Mill . |
| 14 | Infant mortality of second birth order children was the lowest , and it rose with each successive birth order thereafter , with the exception of random fluctuation due to small numbers of high order live births . |
| 15 | Erm I shall pass no comment on those , but I do know whose was the lowest bid . |
| 16 | What my hon. Friend has said is certainly the case at Rover , but it has also been the case throughout industry during the past year , when there was the lowest number of strikes for more than 45 years . |
| 17 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman recognises that the increase in unemployment last month was the lowest for almost a year , that it was the third successive fall in the rate of increase and that it shows that the rate of increase in unemployment in Britain is now coming down fast . |
| 18 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Cynon Valley ( Mrs. Clwyd ) has pointed out , Britain 's overseas aid budget last year was not maintained but was the lowest ever as a percentage of this country 's gross domestic product . |
| 19 | It is good news that the increase in unemployment in this country last month was the lowest for almost a year . |
| 20 | The April deficit of £831m — down from a revised £929m in March — was the lowest for six months , the Government said . |
| 21 | This was the lowest level in six years . |
| 22 | The turnout , at 42.9 per cent of the registered electorate of 3,204,955 , was the lowest ever recorded . |
| 23 | The turnout of 66.1 per cent was the lowest for any post-war Hamburg Bürgerschaft election . |
| 24 | The turnout , officially recorded at only 28 per cent of the electorate of 13,170,000 , was the lowest ever in any Indian state election , below even that for Jammu and Kashmir in 1987 ( 31.6 per cent ) . |
| 25 | Bush , the ninth incumbent President to be defeated at the polls — his 38 per cent share of the vote was the lowest score by an incumbent since 1912 — conceded defeat gracefully with a tribute to " the majesty of the democratic system " . |
| 26 | It was the lowest decade of house building since the Second World War . |
| 27 | Although the rest of the world was the lowest cost source of supply the imposition of the CET meant that it was not the lowest priced source of supply in the domestic economy . |
| 28 | 7 to the hectare , and th the range as David Potter said and very you know very significantly erm up to sixty or seventy per hectare down to thirteen which was the lowest . |
| 29 | He says : ‘ While the number of homes in possession at the end of 1991 was the highest ever at 160 , the previous highest figure was 116 in June 1988 , when the mortgage rate of 9.75pc was the lowest for the past 13 years . |
| 30 | This was the lowest rise in the UK , but the overall figure still constitutes one in three of Scotland 's unemployed . |