Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being a label past its peak , Chanel became the hottest news in fashion and Lagerfeld made the Chanel suit the number one fashion status symbol of the Eighties . |
| 2 | Megatek Corp , San Jose announced the newest member of its X-Cellerator family , a $1,500 Esprix CL accelerator supporting multiple workstation users on a single Sparc CPU , enabling for independent users on a Sparcstation 10 . |
| 3 | Megatek Corp , San Jose announced the newest member of its X-Cellerator family , a $1,500 Esprix CL accelerator supporting multiple workstation users on a single Sparc CPU , enabling for independent users on a Sparcstation 10 . |
| 4 | MARTIN Sludds produced the finest finish of his golfing career in yesterday 's third round of the Smurfit Irish Professional Championship at the K Club in County Kildare . |
| 5 | For the record , Vanuatu got the highest guffaw count . |
| 6 | The technique was further refined by Italian dancing masters employed by the french kings whose courts became the richest in Europe . |
| 7 | Eton were in charge for most of the match , although Lancing squandered the best chance near the end . |
| 8 | A simulated dockside environment presents life in the days of Sail and Steam in the Docks as Cardiff became the greatest coal-exporting port in the world . |
| 9 | Lancashire rider Ian Newton produced the best performance of his career when he won the 250cc class in the second round of the European road-racing championship at Kirkistown , County Down . |
| 10 | Byelarus , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in March became the latest of the former Soviet republics to file applications for membership of the International Monetary Fund ; it was reported in late March that the IMF was near to finalizing the terms of membership for Russia and the other republics . |
| 11 | Still , as Jane belonged nowhere , Sussex became the nearest thing to home . |
| 12 | Middle-class reformers and those with more radical opinions used the newest ideas to discredit the ‘ old-fashioned ’ science favoured by the traditional sources of power and influence . |
| 13 | GUERNSEY 's Mike Nicolle created the biggest upset in the history of the Midland Bank World Indoor Championship when he beat the defending champion , Ian Schuback , in yesterday 's opening round in Preston . |
| 14 | The tidal wave of Dancing Brave 's progress up the Longchamp straight to win the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe provided the greatest moment of European Flat racing in the 1980s . |
| 15 | In his opening speech party chairman Aleksandur Lilov declared that factional splits posed the greatest threat to the party 's future . |
| 16 | Gilbert and Ward found the highest ownership levels in Valencia , where land is cheap and the highest levels of renting in Bogota , where land is expensive ( Gilbert and Ward 1985 ) . |
| 17 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 18 | In presidential and legislative elections held in May 1989 [ see pp. 36651-52 ] Menem defeated Eduardo César Angeloz of the UCR , and the Peronists became the largest party in the Chamber of Deputies , although they still lacked an absolute majority . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the anomalous condition produced the greatest number of incorrect lexical decisions ( i.e. NO responses to real words ) . |
| 20 | Indeed , Taiwan became the largest foreign investor in Malaysia during 1988 , in terms of the annual flows of investment . |
| 21 | Those with children at RC schools expected the highest moral standards . |
| 22 | The final straw came when two prospective clients became the latest victims of crime . |
| 23 | SIMON PARKE became the youngest male player to represent England when at the age of 17 years and two months he helped his country to a second 3-0 victory in the World Team Championships here yesterday , this time against the hosts . |
| 24 | Results showed that the relationship between the target and context had a strong effect on performance ; words which were highly predictable were responded to more quickly than words which were unlikely , while anomalous words produced the slowest response times of all . |
| 25 | World record holder Mike Powell of the United States produced the best long jump ever in Australia last night when he leapt 8.23m to win the event at the NEC International track and field meet in Melbourne . |
| 26 | In April 1991 a new four-party centre-right coalition was sworn in following the March general election when the KESK became the largest single parliamentary party [ see pp. 38112 ; 38158 ] . |
| 27 | Portugal became the poorest EC member with almost a quarter of its people living off the land . |
| 28 | Are you like this stupid little bitch 's aunt — do you think Rembrandt got the teeniest bit bored when he painted ? |
| 29 | Cars got the biggest response . |
| 30 | Estimates of abundance of harp seals were presented for two periods : Norwegian authors provided the highest upper limit for the late 1960s , and the lower limit of the estimates from the analysis by a UK scientist was less than the catch of the 1967 year class of pups . |