Example sentences of "showed the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index . |
| 2 | The third part of the day , evening , showed the greatest variation in response . |
| 3 | The company 's mid-Wales network , the most rural area it served , showed the greatest decline in the 1970s — 35 per cent — which supports the contention discussed later that these are the types of areas that now typically have the poorest effective public transport provision . |
| 4 | Searches of nucleic acid ( GenBank/EMBL rel. 71 ) and protein ( NBRF-PIR rel. 32 ) databases showed the best match ( 21% identity ) to a tyrosine-specific transport protein from Escherichia coli ( accession number , GRECY ) , which appears to contain 12 transmembrane domains . |
| 5 | Taken together , the two quarters showed the weakest rate of growth for a six-month period since March 1972 . |
| 6 | Fees from corporate recovery , unsurprisingly , showed the largest jump , from £44.5m to £55.5m , while fees from audit and accounting and management consultancy both fell slightly . |
| 7 | Commercial work showed the largest fall , from £707 million in April to £185 million in May , a decline of nearly 74 percent . |
| 8 | After newspapers , books showed the largest decline er , and the fifteen million variance is shared roughly one fifth by Addison Wesley and two fifths apiece by Penguin and Longman . |
| 9 | The study of hospital patients by Ferguson and MacPheal concluded as follows : ‘ The ex-patients who showed the heaviest mortality at early ages , the strongest tendency to relapse and the poorest record in point of early return to work were the group of unskilled labourers . ’ |
| 10 | Neither of my children showed the merest inclination to follow me into journalism or television . |
| 11 | Sales of unleaded petrol in the UK showed the biggest increase , rising to an all-time high of 38 per cent . |
| 12 | The poll showed the biggest collapse in Tory support to be in the South East , West Midlands and the North-East . |
| 13 | The UK 's growth of total exports showed the slowest growth of any of 19 Industrial Market Economies for much of the last 25 years ( World Bank , 1989 ) ; however , through the mid 1980s the decline of the UK 's share of world trade was arrested at the level of about 8 per cent . |
| 14 | The result showed the strongest support for Maastricht in Paris , where 62.5 per cent favoured ratification , and on the border with Germany and Switzerland ( with 66 per cent in favour in Alsace ) . |
| 15 | The presence of six or more of these factors showed the strongest relationship with sociopathy , and their frequency and seriousness also increased the relationship . |
| 16 | If Cohen showed the slightest inclination to get up or cause a commotion , he 'd have to knock him out — swiftly and silently . |
| 17 | If I showed the slightest sign of taking sides about Bodyline , or suggesting that it was a threat to cricket , my reports would be censored and I would probably be replaced . |
| 18 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 19 | For the following twenty-seven days I approached everyone I knew , from the Bow Building Society to distant aunts , even fellow-students , but none of them showed the slightest interest in backing a young woman undergraduate to the tune of sixty pounds in order that she could buy a fruit and vegetable shop . |