Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , the abrasive and ambitious Speaker , whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis . |
| 2 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 3 | The same source claims that the 51 women in question consisted of the best workers in that department " ( presumably this means the most senior ) . |
| 4 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 5 | Imported corn staved off the worst effects of harvest failure and some communities appear to have escaped altogether . |
| 6 | SIR JOHN HALL emerged from the latest bout of boardroom battling at Newcastle United yesterday with a controlling stake in the club and plans for a complete takeover . |
| 7 | Then that might had to the worst side of the American trustee system developing . |
| 8 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 9 | But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre . |
| 10 | With rare exceptions complete authority over the affairs and property of the taravad lay with the eldest male , the karanavan . |
| 11 | The mixture fizzed like mad , you swallowed the concoction and with little delay sprinted for the nearest lavatory , hoping that your speed would be faster than the deadly powder . |
| 12 | Although local bus video turned in the best WinTach Windows performance results , the Western Systems Paradise video accelerator produced some pretty good ones , too . |
| 13 | The race started with the smallest grid since 1932 , yet 16 of the 29 cars that qualified were still running at the end . |
| 14 | The cake is ready when a skewer inserted into the deepest part comes out cleanly . |
| 15 | My partner 's Pipettes of Lemon Sole filled with succulent Prawns and coated with a light Indian Sauce came with the cutest garnish — little swans made from slices of lemon , while the helpings put me in mind of ‘ Nouvelle Cuisine meets Yorkshire portions ’ . |
| 16 | Moreover , Esquire 's February launch coincided with the darkest hours of the Gulf War . |
| 17 | The race had started on a wet track — it is almost never dry for a whole weekend in Holland — and Hunt 's victory resulted from the finest sort of judgement about when to come in and change his wet tyres to slicks . |
| 18 | The dog leaped at the closest man who , encumbered with carbine and sword , could not cut down at the beast , then Sharpe 's mare slammed into the Frenchman 's horse and the big sword slashed down at the Dragoon . |
| 19 | In the evenings I taught my son , Branwell , and my wife 's sister looked after the youngest child , Anne . |
| 20 | Theda was just able to prevent her mouth falling open , but her eyes widened , and her voice trembled on the veriest hint of laughter as she held out her hand . |
| 21 | The Callaghan government replied with the largest airlift and sea movement of troops since the Suez operation twenty-one years earlier . |
| 22 | For centuries the traveller who wanted to cross a sea or an ocean went to the nearest port and hung about until he found a ship going in his direction . |
| 23 | The message went to the largest meeting yet held to discuss what the political parties have to offer research . |
| 24 | Within social work the quest continued for the best way to organize a service that could be responsive to community need . |
| 25 | The nationalist Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization — Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity emerged as the largest party with 37 seats , followed by the Macedonian League of Communists — Party for Democratic Change with 31 seats , the Party for Democratic Prosperity and the National Democratic Party ( both representing the Albanian minority ) which together won 25 seats , and the Alliance of Reform Forces with 18 seats . |
| 26 | Comorbidity emerged as the best predictor of 2-year survival . |
| 27 | Most of the lending came from the largest US Banks — Bankers Trust , Bank of America , Chase Manhattan , Chemical , Citicorp , Continental , Illinois , First Chicago , Manufacturers Hanover , Morgan Guaranty1 — and their counterparts in Japan , Germany , France and the UK . |
| 28 | Her letter came at the wrongest time . |
| 29 | The doctor turned to the eldest boy , Michael . |
| 30 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |