Example sentences of "gave the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six NF positive cell lines were used : PC12 ( 21 ) , SKNSH ( 22 ) , B104 ( 23 ) , C1300 ( 13 ) SMS-KCNR and SMS-KAN ( 24 ) of which C1300 gave the highest transfection efficiency and this cell line was therefore used for the analysis of the NF-L mutant constructs . |
| 2 | It was Boyer who helped Coleridge to understand the subtle logic and ‘ fugitive causes ’ which gave the greatest poetry its power , and who taught the lesson , not immediately applied in Coleridge 's teenage work , that conventional metaphors and needless elaboration seldom made good verse : |
| 3 | But it is to the peoples of Africa that the news gave the greatest happiness . |
| 4 | the corners of the Polychromos Pastels produced the finest lines ; rubbing them backwards and forwards on the leading edge gave the greatest intensity of colour . |
| 5 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |
| 6 | There was a cousin Dilwyn from whom he became inseparable ( they even shared a pair of roller skates ) and to whom he gave the greatest tribute of affection by constantly getting him into trouble . |
| 7 | The men of 602 were part of that group of young men who gave the greatest gift of all in 1941 , when the Battle of Britain stopped the Nazi war-machine over the fields of southern England , the Scots accounting for 130 of the 175 enemy aircraft downed . |
| 8 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 9 | In general , the area which gave the greatest cause for concern for its relative lack of attention to language issues was secondary PGCE courses at university level . |
| 10 | Manvell gave the smallest nod to acknowledge d'Alembord 's bow . |
| 11 | He paused before replying , then gave the smallest shake of his head . |
| 12 | Out of the accountants , KPMG Peat Marwick gave the best performance with 27 medals , followed by E&Y with 19 . |
| 13 | Judges gave the best speaker award to Sandyha Surt and the best expresser of thanks to Emma Gaunt , both of the Queen Elizabeth College . |
| 14 | Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated . |
| 15 | He concluded that a show of American strength in Lebanon gave the best promise of preventing a repetition elsewhere of the events in Baghdad . |
| 16 | Jason Welland gave the best expert class performance in Sunday 's Sunbeam Club organised Gordon Jackson Cup trial , which was contested on a superb 12-section course at Woolmer Farm , near Liphook . |
| 17 | Aboard his recently acquired Aprilia , the Whitehall rider gave the best expert class performance in the Waterlooville Club trial , which was contested on a very difficult course at Budden 's Bank , near Chalton on Saturday . |
| 18 | The combined model gave the best correlation between multispectral scanner data and ground truth ( i.e. between what is seen by the remote scan and what is really there ) . |
| 19 | The amount paid would be determined according to a centrally agreed formula , and the budget would be controlled by a manager who would purchase services from whichever public or private agency gave the best value for money . |
| 20 | Substitution of the Rivlin form for For sheet materials stressed in their plane one of the Then it is easy to show that who showed that a form , with f a decreasing function of gave the best fit . |
| 21 | The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions . |
| 22 | Churt 16-year-old John Bradshaw gave the best schoolboy expert class performance in Sunday 's Waltham Chase Club trial , which took place at Hut Hill , near Chandlers Ford . |
| 23 | GHI comment : In general , we found that the Alba and Ferguson models gave the clearest sound . |
| 24 | In return , he gave the clearest commitment yet that the government in Bonn would not permit any tampering with the Oder-Neisse line , the border between East Germany and Poland . |
| 25 | The militant , comprising four fields ( Kent , Scotland , South Wales and Yorkshire ) which consistently gave the strongest support to the strike call , although none gave it a majority at every ballot . |
| 26 | Funnily enough , the one I gave the biggest chance to was Heist in the Festival Bumper but he finished second . |
| 27 | Herrick gave the slightest shrug . |
| 28 | He raised the tip of the rod , and gave the slightest flick of his wrist , swinging the line in a smooth curve out over the water . |
| 29 | She gave the slightest bow . |
| 30 | Wang Sau-leyan gave the slightest bow of his head , as if in deference to Wu Shih 's greater age and experience . |