Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abbey National wrote its first major piece of leasing business in December 1990 and has since become the fastest-growing company in the field . |
| 2 | It is just one illustration of the double standards that we have tolerated for generations that , for one and half centuries , the House has rightly imposed the strictest safety rules and regulations on the railways , while doing virtually nothing about the roads . |
| 3 | Who exactly is the Euro-fighter meant to defend Britannia and our European allies against now that the Berlin Wall is down , the Soviet Union is rushing towards disarmament and the Warsaw Pact has suddenly become the best investment opportunity since the post-war Marshall Plan ? |
| 4 | Who exactly is the Euro-fighter meant to defend Britannia and our European allies against now that the Berlin Wall is down , the Soviet Union is rushing towards disarmament and the Warsaw Pact has suddenly become the best investment opportunity since the post-war Marshall Plan ? |
| 5 | A firm from Oxfordshire has just launched the latest equipment to help doctors find out more about heart and brain illnesses , but much of it wo n't ever be used in Britain . |
| 6 | WordStar has probably got the longest pedigree of any of the current word processing packages , harking back to CP/M and beyond . |
| 7 | It is almost unknown in Africa and Asia , while in the West , from being relatively rare as recently as the 1920s , it has now become the commonest disorder of the large intestine . |
| 8 | ISTANBUL — Turkey 's first , and most famous , transsexual has narrowly escaped the latest attempt to kill her , writes Tim Kelsey . |
| 9 | ON WEDNESDAY , Christies ' two star lots are Canaletto 's view of the Old Horse Guards , wonderfully fresh and the most significant of the artist 's London paintings , while Rembrandt 's jewel-like Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel has never had the slightest sniff from the Rembrandt Research Project , which has whittled 1,000 ‘ Rembrandt 's ’ down to 300 and whittles on remorselessly . |
| 10 | And he claims he has never had the slightest desire to leave her . |
| 11 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 12 | When I worked er for in the mid eighties , we had been through a period where we 'd always taken the cheapest tender . |
| 13 | He 'd always had the nicest smile , open and boyish , but she 'd forgotten the way his hazel eyes sparkled with greenish lights , perhaps because she 'd never seen him so tanned before . |
| 14 | He 'd never shown the slightest interest in any other woman — any decent woman . |
| 15 | At Sotheby 's New York on 21 October last , five clocks of second-rate quality ( the property of a collector who had already dispersed the best part of his collection ) sent auction prices rocketing . |
| 16 | Afterwards as the plaudits for the winner died down , Homer confided in me : ‘ You 've just seen the best jockey since Jonjo O'Neill , ’ and who would argue with that assertion nowadays ? |
| 17 | ‘ Why , I 've just had the strangest thought . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But actually I 've just bought the best electro-acoustic I 've ever seen or heard — a Takamine . |
| 19 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 20 | Official despair was summed up in a letter from Sir Edward Howarth , Director of the National Camps Corporation ( which ran the schools ) to N. D. Bosworth Smith of the Board of Education , on 13 August 1942 ; Howarth had just read the latest report on the children 's growth rates and commented : |
| 21 | How could something that felt so right make you look like this , as if you had just committed the worst crime in the world ? |
| 22 | But they 've already had the best part of a week in which to forget . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've always got the greatest thrill from music when it communicates directly to me . |
| 24 | So I thought as we 've still got the biggest guarantee I would go to it . |
| 25 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 26 | Not that I 've ever had the slightest sympathy from you . |
| 27 | Never mind , Mark had still won the biggest prize of all . |
| 28 | All we know is that Gunhilda was a woman of great talent and charm , for — in addition to having fascinated two powerful barons — she had also established the closest friendship with Anselm of any woman known to us . |
| 29 | And you 've probably made the best choice . |
| 30 | ‘ But we 've probably spent the best part of £1m on lawyers ’ fees , let alone our own time . ’ |