Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Pius XII 's encyclical Mystici Corporis brought back the concept of the Church as the body of Christ to the centre of Catholic teaching , it most remarkably avoided the slightest reference in this to the relationship between the Eucharistic body and the ecclesial body , and omitted the slightest notice of the basic Pauline text for that relationship , 1 Corinthians 10.17 . |
| 2 | The Netherlands swiftly became the largest gas exporter in the world and despite importing almost all its other fuel , managed to become a net energy exporter and even occasionally to make a profit on the energy account . |
| 3 | It only became the grandest villa when Henry Pease bought it and began work . |
| 4 | The question below produced the lowest success rate for the bottom third . |
| 5 | I inadvertently got the best vantage point on one of the most exciting holes in the world ! " |
| 6 | It suddenly seemed the best solution . |
| 7 | Event 14 at Nottingham perhaps attracted the largest entry for the 14 and Under and 11 and Under age groups . |
| 8 | Self-isolated as he was , ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ none the less displayed the best kind of condescension , and was in fact unusually collegial — not so much with youngsters like myself , of course , but with more senior medical figures , like Thilo and Wirths . |
| 9 | Their nearest two rivals , Lincolnshire and Cumberland , had only one match to play , while Suffolk perhaps represented the biggest danger to Hertfordshire , 18 points adrift but with three outstanding matches . |
| 10 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 11 | Shoemakers already formed the largest group and various types of woodworkers were also prominent . |
| 12 | The church 's ideology not only gave powerful support to kingship : it sustained the very idea of the state as a permanent complex of institutions , because therein lay the best prospect of defending ecclesiastical interests . |
| 13 | I wanted to make sure they were long enough , and I went and started at Christmas , and I , er , this is so gross , and I just felt the scummiest thing , it was sort of , it 's not exactly how you wan na feel just before you get married , and then I went and had my legs shaved er waxed . |
| 14 | She said Northallerton already had the lowest level of accommodation in Hambleton . |
| 15 | Flynn 's great progress with the GS&W ; line astonished even John , who already had the highest opinion of the man . |
| 16 | GUARDIAN Royal Exchange yesterday revealed the biggest turnaround in its history , recording a £3 million taxable profit compared with a £210 million pre-tax loss in 1991 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | BUILDING materials group Tarmac yesterday became the latest company to reduce its dividends — from 11¼p to 5½p , with the final of 2½p payable on July 6 . |
| 19 | Warrington-based Greenall Whitley yesterday became the latest brewer to complain that the squeeze on spending is starting to hit beer sales . |
| 20 | BRITISH Airways yesterday became the latest casualty of Black Wednesday as it revealed the slumping pound had helped cause profits to crash 80 per cent in the third quarter . |
| 21 | WALTER Lawrence yesterday became the latest housebuilder to release sharply lower profit figures . |
| 22 | Even when he was not striking the ball well , he still posed the biggest threat . |
| 23 | However much I might want to keep tabs on him , bumping into him several times a day in the corridor hardly seemed the best route to anonymity . |
| 24 | The monks of Battle usually ate the poorest meat from their own estates ; the best was sold to pay the recurrent costs of the abbey buildings and staff , and to run the hospital and almonry maintained for the local poor . |
| 25 | For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes . |
| 26 | And Liverpool once boasted the closest approach to a ‘ village pond ’ on an urban common . |
| 27 | The East End once boasted the biggest brewery in the world , and it gave birth to some of the most famous names in British brewing history . |
| 28 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 29 | Bourgchier may well have thought , as Mancini implies in a narrower context , that to co-operate with the duke rather than opposing him still offered the best hope of warding off disaster . |
| 30 | He always demanded the best food available and the use of our big room every Sunday night for gambling with his cronies . |