Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conspicuously absent was Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , the abrasive and ambitious Speaker , whose manoeuvring led to the latest crisis . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the jury 's finding that Poindexter was part of a conspiracy involving members of the Reagan administration amounted to the clearest judicial verdict yet rendered upon the Iran-contra scandal . |
| 3 | Doyle 's eyes flickered to the nearest table behind Rosie . |
| 4 | McRae roared to the fastest times on five of yesterday 's 10 timed stages through the rain-lashed Welsh forests . |
| 5 | Augustus John 's ‘ leonine personality ’ was well known , as was Wilson Steer 's total life devotion to his ‘ absorbing passion for painting , ’ 12 or Sickert 's arrogant self-belief — all artists Walker admired as the best and aligned herself with . |
| 6 | In the speech Shevardnadze called for the broadest possible democratisation of political and economic life , including greater autonomy for enterprises and the election of management . |
| 7 | Normally unaffected by any type of political show biz , the factory was deluged by the media as scores of photographers and journalists jostled for the best position . |
| 8 | The LCS — Party of Democratic Renewal emerged as the largest single party in the Chamber , taking 17 per cent and 14 seats , while the ZSMZ — Liberal Party ( formerly the Slovene Socialist Youth Federation ) took 14.49 per cent and 12 seats . |
| 9 | Lucy hesitated for the merest second . |
| 10 | Corbett pointed to the arbalest which swung from his saddle horn . |
| 11 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 12 | Having thus fire and water at every dwelling , there is no need to enquire why they dwell thus dispers 'd upon the highest hills … |
| 13 | But February came with the lowest temperatures for years and March was not much better . |
| 14 | Before the union was formed the tariff against all outsiders was not prohibitive , and the home country 's imports came from the lowest cost source namely , the rest of the world . |
| 15 | The same source claims that the 51 women in question consisted of the best workers in that department " ( presumably this means the most senior ) . |
| 16 | As the Robemaker 's shadow fell blackly across the floor , Fenella ducked behind the nearest rack , but Caspar , caught without hope of concealment , simply turned and made the briefest of bows . |
| 17 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 18 | Sharpe spurred towards the nearest Belgians , but before he could even get close to the battalion a French column burst out of the rye and the Belgians , without even firing a volley , turned and ran . |
| 19 | Imported corn staved off the worst effects of harvest failure and some communities appear to have escaped altogether . |
| 20 | Repub. dissolved the ancient Military orders whose origins lay in the Reconquest . |
| 21 | MORE than a million lambs died in the worst blizzards to hit New Zealand in 30 years . |
| 22 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 [ see p. 36019 ] , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 . |
| 23 | In elections to the National Assembly on April 26 , 1988 , the DJP emerged as the largest single party but failed to retain an overall majority for the first time since its formation in 1981 [ see pp. 36019-22 ] . |
| 24 | SIR JOHN HALL emerged from the latest bout of boardroom battling at Newcastle United yesterday with a controlling stake in the club and plans for a complete takeover . |
| 25 | Then that might had to the worst side of the American trustee system developing . |
| 26 | Heart of Darkness mattered not for giving Eliot the anthropological reader a better idea of how primitive society worked , but for showing Eliot the poet that the life of the savage and that of the modern urban clerk intersected on the deepest level , the level of ‘ The Horror ’ which was , essentially for him , the realization of evil within man . |
| 27 | Whitby were knocked out of the Yorkshire Shield 7–4 by the visitors to their heavy pitch , Wibsey ( Bradford ) , while Knaresborough plunged to the heaviest defeat in the club 's nine-year history when they went down 57–0 to the newly-formed Hull and ER club . |
| 28 | Visitors to a major stamp fair in Brackenhoe School , Marton Road , Middlesbrough , today will have a chance to win a copy of a Victorian Penny Black regarded as the oldest in the world in a raffle . |
| 29 | Helen headed for the nearest one and asked about photograph albums . |
| 30 | Prost turned in the fastest time on a dry track with 1 min 20.557 secs . |