Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLIONS of black South Africans went on strike yesterday in what anti-apartheid movements called the biggest stoppage in the country 's history . |
| 2 | The curriculum areas accorded the greatest number of teacher-days were maths , English and science , with English accounting for more than twice as many as science , and these two areas between them taking up about as many teacher-days as maths on its own . |
| 3 | The 1988–89 Committee attached the greatest importance to coverage which would give an ‘ unvarnished account ’ of the proceedings of the House . |
| 4 | Colin Watson ruefully accepted , twelve years ago , the ‘ attitude of good-natured , if slightly supercilious tolerance ’ with which reviewers treated the latest batch of detective stories . |
| 5 | During the revision of the Office Administration and Technology modules , the Module Development Group incorporated the latest draft of the Lead Body standards of competence into the relevant modules , and these were conditionally approved as SVQs in Business Administration for session 1990/91 . |
| 6 | The curriculum had been debated , if at all , by Local Education Authorities , teachers , and the largely teacher-dominated Schools Council , as well as by the Examination Boards , over which the universities exercised the greatest influence , but never by ministers or the general public . |
| 7 | Perhaps now that Morse , with its lack of overt sex or violence , has in recent weeks achieved the highest rating of any current programme , producers and writers may realise that delving into the same old muck no longer wins large audiences . |
| 8 | Her hand was retained and to her astonishment given the slightest but most certain squeeze . |
| 9 | Has my hon. Friend seen the latest survey from the Institute of Purchasing and Supply which publishes a regular report based on surveys of purchasing managers throughout British industry , studying their purchasing activities and intentions . |
| 10 | Historiography arose when an event occurred which in its magnitude matched the greatest events celebrated in legend . |
| 11 | The damming of the River Vyrnwy in 1881–92 to create a reservoir to supply Liverpool with water involved the earliest large-scale masonry dam , 161 feet high and 390 yards long . |
| 12 | Further changes required the greatest prudence . |
| 13 | On average ( £5.44 per capita ) the Wealden vale was filly comparable with the com-sheep region ( £5 — £5.55 ) and far more affluent than the forest ridge to the east ( £4.64 ) , where , in contrast to the rest of Sussex , the scarcity of truly rich people placed the biggest concentration of wealth in the range £10-£19 instead of £20-£39 . |
| 14 | Labour MPs defied party orders to abstain , but the end of the debate marked the biggest revolt so far by Conservative MPs in the marathon saga of the Bill 's passage through the Commons . |
| 15 | Nick Farr-Jones who was last month awarded the highest Australian decoration , The Order of Australia , has confirmed that he will be unavailable for international action this season . |
| 16 | He regarded Darwin 's second mode of sexual selection — female choice of particular males — as unimportant on the grounds that any consequences which female choice might have would be annulled by natural selection — unless females selected the fittest males , in which case the results of sexual and natural selection would be inseparable . |
| 17 | The old crow selected the largest one and dragged it to safety , out of the way of a pair of young birds chasing them down . |
| 18 | Whilst animal by-product and chemical plants were responsible for the most complaints , odours from manure spreading and intensive pig and poultry farms affected the largest number of local authorities as shown in Table 2 below . |
| 19 | He said that his government attached the highest priority to restoring the health of the economy , and promised that a budget would be introduced within a month and that dialogue with the IMF would continue . |
| 20 | Only 80 of the Royal Navy 's 124 ships of 50 guns or more had proved fit for service , fewer than the 40 Spanish and 50 French ships of the line , and both in seaworthiness and weight of gunfire the best French and Spanish ships out-classed the finest English vessels . |
| 21 | This concerns limitations on the ability to infer the highest level program given the lowest : if one stood in front of a large machine one would see banks of lights flashing , as in the conventional newspaper cartoons . |
| 22 | Had the world seen the best of this smiling champion ? |
| 23 | Another question in which memory requirements affected the lowest third pupils particularly is now illustrated . |
| 24 | Our solutions containing rice derived glucose polymer promoted the highest water obsorption in the secretory state but it is not known whether increasing the polymer concentration ( but maintaining ORS hypotonicity ) would enhance water absorption by further stimulating active glucose transport or whether water absorption would be jeopardised , even by a moderate increase in osmolality . |
| 25 | It was then , after a storm that had blown for seven days at speeds exceeding seventy knots , that the Ramapo encountered the biggest wave ever reported by a ship at sea . |
| 26 | Software achieved the best pre-tax margin growth rate — 18.2% followed by Services at 12.6% and Multiple Services at 5.6% . |
| 27 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 28 | Noting the need for profound change in the way of thinking about defence , the declaration placed the highest priority on the completion in 1990 of the first treaty to reduce and limit conventional armed forces in Europe ( CFE ) and the completion of a package on conventional and short-range ballistic measures ( CSBM ) . |
| 29 | By degrees the new mores spread from St Petersburg and Moscow to the provincial cities and in time affected the humblest noble homes . |