Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 2 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 3 | But it was guarding the Japanese prisoners in Changi Jail that made the deepest impression on the 20-year-old sergeant from Billingham . |
| 4 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 5 | He was left screaming in a terrible wailing sob that made the nearest infantry look nervously round . |
| 6 | It was , however , the Robbins Report in 1963 on higher education that made the strongest case for investment in education to aid economic growth . |
| 7 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 8 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 9 | The Information Service companies that reported the highest pre-tax margins were Macro 4 at 46% ; Micro Focus and Sage Group level at 33% ; Barbour Index at 31% and Total Systems 27% . |
| 10 | That done , the program would select the play that promised the highest score . |
| 11 | Fenna came offering now only love , huge steady love and joy and that seemed the hardest thing to resist . |
| 12 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 13 | Again , it was the middle management ranks that suffered the severest cuts . |
| 14 | It was the concept of parole , originally at the discretion of the Home Secretary , but amended in the course of the passage of the legislation through Parliament so that he could grant early release on licence to a prisoner only if advised to do so by a statutory Parole Board , that commanded the keenest interest of penal reformers and had the most extensive effects . |
| 15 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 16 | 1954 ) it was the overcrowded or inadequate buildings that caused the greatest strain on family life . |
| 17 | The history books will list the world records , Olympic title and the record number of sub four-minute miles , but that alone does n't do justice to the man who consistently put his reputation on the line , changed our notions on the possible longevity of a miler 's career and who , I believe , was the inspiration that heralded the greatest decade in the history of British middle distance running . |
| 18 | Back and forth between its two summits , Points 265 and 295 , swayed the opposing forces , locked together in a crescendo of desperation that typified the worst of the months of ceaseless combat on the Left Bank . |
| 19 | Mr Travers , who drew his figures from public expenditure White Papers , said the sectors that enjoyed the biggest rises were education for the under-fives ( up nearly 90 per cent ) and children with special needs , both favourite Labour targets . |
| 20 | A computer whiz-kid , he had built up an electronics empire that rivalled the best in the world . |
| 21 | I liked that bit the best . |
| 22 | We examined the expression pattern of the transgene in four adult lines that contained the highest copy numbers ( see figure 4 ) . |
| 23 | Perhaps the one aristocrat that felt the greatest affinity with his fellow deaf was Lord Carbery , who was born deaf and never spoke in his life . |
| 24 | Okay well the one that went the furthest was |
| 25 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 26 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
| 27 | Spending on AFDC , in real terms , fell by nearly a fifth between 1975 and 1989 — the period that saw the biggest growth in illegitimate births . |
| 28 | But it was Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony after the interval that brought the greatest revelations . |
| 29 | ‘ I went into advertising because it was the thing that presented the biggest challenge to me after university , ’ he says . |
| 30 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |