Example sentences of "[adj -est] [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , despite his popularity and wealth of talent , Moss never won coveted World Drivers ' Championship and is , undoubtedly , the greatest driver never to have won the title . |
| 2 | Topping the bill will be the ugliest band ever to get to No 1 — Dr And The Medics ! |
| 3 | Michael also took away the distinction of being the youngest archer ever to win the contest from Ben Hird , who had won it aged nineteen in 1900 . |
| 4 | A GIRL of seven has become the youngest person ever to sue for sexual harassment . |
| 5 | TEENAGER Cameron Springthorpe hopes to become the youngest person ever to sail across the Atlantic single-handed . |
| 6 | That was the way it had always been , my love daring the slightest signal only to find his love was elsewhere . |
| 7 | He was and may still be the youngest man ever to have held the rank of brigadier general in the British army . |
| 8 | I was the youngest prisoner ever to go to Cookham Wood : now they do n't take anyone under twenty-one . |
| 9 | Last year she became the youngest player ever to represent Wales . |
| 10 | At 16 years and two months , the Redcar-born Jarvis was the youngest player ever to make his debut for the once all-powerful county . |
| 11 | His career commenced at Jarrow in 1897 before moving to Sunderland and then Sheffield United where in 1902 he became the youngest player ever to win an FA Cup winners ' medal . |
| 12 | The following year he became the youngest player ever to win a FA Cup winners ' medal ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) . |
| 13 | Kenny made his League debut for the Palace at Tranmere in May 1975 at just over 16 years of age and is the second youngest player ever to appear in the Palace first team . |
| 14 | Then a Chantry High School pupil aged 16 years and 56 days , he became the youngest player ever to play in a league match for the club . |
| 15 | He inflicted the heaviest defeat ever to wrest the keys of the world 's most powerful office from a President seeking re-election . |
| 16 | He weighed in at sixteen stone , eleven pounds , which makes him the heaviest man ever to row in the boat race . |
| 17 | Loveliest creature ever to follow hounds . ’ |
| 18 | We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now , yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we need to maintain three Trident systems and possibly build a fourth at a total cost of more than £23 billion . |
| 19 | Dispirited and half-starving , the population was in no state to weather the greatest catastrophe ever to strike the Old World : the Black Plague of 1111 . |
| 20 | In what is probably the boldest attempt yet to change Human behaviour for the sake of the environment , officials in southern California have produced a long-range plan to deal with Los Angeles 's infamous smog . |
| 21 | When a biographer dubs his subject ‘ the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language ’ in his opening chapter , he is clearly about to embark upon an act of homage . |
| 22 | Certainly she found him so , despite what he so obviously thought of her , and as the kiss deepened she felt sleepy and warm and pliant — the nicest thing ever to have happened — and then bereft when he broke the gentle exploration . |
| 23 | The CIS are probably the oldest team ever to play student rugby , but this composite side — made up of two Ukranians , nine Georgians , five Muscovites , six Kazakhs and Uzbeks — are unlikely to repeat their 1988 heroics and could well struggle against both Italy and Ireland . |
| 24 | Mrs Hymes becomes the oldest woman ever to receive the honour . |
| 25 | Supersaurus was probably the biggest creature ever to walk on Earth . |
| 26 | Or will it be Christie , the sprinter who , at 32 , became the oldest man ever to win the blue riband sprint title . |
| 27 | Or will it be Christie , the sprinter who , at 32 , became the oldest man ever to win the blue riband sprint title . |
| 28 | But to the screams of excitement from the biggest crowd ever to gather in the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium , over 54,000 of them , Marcio Santos set up a furious climax with a diving header . |
| 29 | But to the screams of excitement from the biggest crowd ever to gather in the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Stadium , over 54,000 of them , Marcio Santos set up a furious climax with a diving header . |
| 30 | More significantly , the Government yesterday made the biggest effort yet to defuse the row by saying the two Central Office officials ' visit had been cleared by the Tory chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , but Major himself had known nothing about it . |