Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was met by the loudest burst of approval yet , followed by warm and sustained applause . |
| 2 | This was done with the best of intentions , to stop consumers damaging such records with mono pickups , but it opened the floodgates to many types of fake-stereo records in the following decades . |
| 3 | This was done upon the eldest son attaining the age of 21 years . |
| 4 | This was accompanied by the weakest of smiles . |
| 5 | This was described as the largest helicopter operation in military history . |
| 6 | This was experienced by the largest and most outstanding US corporations , all manner of industries grouped together as ‘ smokestack America ’ , and by the powerful banks and finance houses . |
| 7 | Day three was spent at the lowest place on earth — 1400 ft below sea level — the Dead Sea and , after visiting the ancient palace of Herod the Great at Masada , it was time for the obligatory float in the Dead Sea . |
| 8 | Originally it was used to summon Farnborough children to school , when the latter was housed in the earliest part of the house during the nineteenth century : the low bit on the west side which is now the kitchen . |
| 9 | Spring of 2302 was noted as the coldest for centuries , and the Chaos army crossed the river Lynsk above Praag , destroying a contingent of Kislevites defending its bridges . |
| 10 | She neither bowed nor smiled and the words were grave but her eyes , he thought , seemed to gather all that was left of the best of the sun . |
| 11 | ‘ The Liberal party — formed out of the scum and dregs of all that was left in the worst elements of the Whig menagerie . ’ |
| 12 | According to Philo of Alexandria , a first-century Graeco-Judaic philosopher who wrote many works that still survive , including commentaries on the Old Testament , fifty was regarded as the holiest of numbers and ‘ the principle of the generation of the universe ’ ( De vita contemplativa , 65 ) . |
| 13 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |