Example sentences of "[art] [adj -est] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As you might well expect , Microsoft Windows played a key role at the COMDEX exhibition , a single section of which was dedicated to the largest ever demonstration of third-party Windows applications .
2 The Barcelona Olympics were the largest ever summer games , with more than 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials .
3 The largest ever study of possible causal links between pesticides and cancer is being launched by the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences .
4 The Independent pointed out , for example , that the Opposition 's tax plans would mean ’ the largest ever peacetime tax increase . ’
5 The greatest ever North-East band ?
6 Manchester was unlucky to be in the strongest ever field of candidates for an Olympic Games , Jim Knight I R N Tokyo .
7 The youngest ever organ soloist to appear at the Proms , in 1977 , he is especially noted for his brilliant performances of twentieth century works and of masterpieces in the great Romantic tradition .
8 Peter , who was 44 , had joined Rentokil in 1966 and during 26 years with the company had worked in the laboratory , been appointed the youngest ever pest control surveyor in London and been seconded to the Bahamas where he and Lynn spent seven years .
9 Dr Who fan Gavin Fuller , 24 , last night became the youngest ever champion of Mastermind .
10 The most fancied contender seems to be the teenage Hungarian girl Judit Polgar the youngest ever qualifier as a grandmaster , one month younger than Fischer .
11 The 15-year-old Boat Club player has been selected to represent Ireland in the prestigious Federation Cup tournament , the youngest ever player to attain such recognition .
12 At 22 , Val became the youngest ever ward sister at London 's Middlesex Hospital .
13 She was snapped up as one of the youngest ever Page Three girls but made her last topless appearance on her 21st birthday .
14 Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years .
15 And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ?
16 Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on .
17 And so you were the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes ?
18 Conductor and orchestra have had a long and fruitful association — starting in 1963 when David Atherton became the youngest ever conductor at the BBC Proms in London .
19 But first flying in the face of the worst ever recession in air travel , Virgin Atlantic is doubling its fleet and adding new routes , a high risk strategy .
20 They described it as Maiwa , " the wall at the side of the world , four moons " sail to the eastward … a land which stretches to the north and to the south without end … beyond the furthest eastward island it lies — a wall of mountains up against the sun " .
21 The furthest northward extent of the system was Langley Mill at the end of the Erewash Canal .
22 The only things that could put a stop to the recovery from recession in the north-west of England and elsewhere are the policies of the Labour party — for , the sharpest ever peacetime tax increase , the national statutory minimum wage , and changes in the law to encourage strikes .
23 Nonetheless , that inspired teacher Bernard of Clairvaux , who later on founded the Cistercian Order , knew well the innermost hearts of the army when he preached a sermon containing what must surely be the earliest ever advertising campaign .
24 After scooping the rights to The Simpsons , Batman Returns , Alien 3 and Terminator 2 , a Cheetah spokesperson described the concept as ‘ possibly the biggest ever tie-up in film licensing and video game hardware history … a truly new product concept . ’
25 A GREENPEACE crew tracking a freighter with the biggest ever cargo of plutonium said their boat was rammed by a Japanese warship yesterday .
26 This year saw the biggest ever event with fifty six teams competing for the open , ladies ' , youth , junior and new veterans ' titles .
27 Many reunions of the men who flew to the airfield all over East Anglia , but yesterday saw the biggest ever get-together of combat airmen in Britain .
28 The RSPCA says the Bill invoked the biggest ever response from the British public to any of its campaigns , with nearly 20,000 contacts on the special phoneline .
29 It 's the biggest ever bag alright ?
30 The biggest ever bag to celebrate the world cup .
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