Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman John McGuckian said UTV had increased its market share of total ITV revenue and enjoyed the highest share of viewing in the Independent Television network . |
| 2 | The Stock Markets shrugged off yesterday 's worries and staged the best rise for more than 5 weeks . |
| 3 | Then he climbed on to the winner 's rostrum and became the proudest man in the world as the British National Anthem echoed around the massive Montjuic Stadium . |
| 4 | Finally at the field of Maledor at the very entrance to the passes of Nagarythe Caledor faced the Witch King himself in battle and defeated the mightiest of his armies , driving them into the marshes of Maledor . |
| 5 | Stigwood turned a local scene into an international sensation , launched John Travolta as a box office star and cult hero and masterminded the biggest-selling soundtrack album of all time with a movie that encapsulated the energy and release of the disco age . |
| 6 | Two scientists , Schumman and Went , sampled other pines there in the mid-1950s and found the oldest to be about 4900 years , thereby almost doubling the age of their then nearest competitor , the sequoias . |
| 7 | The firm expanded its activities still further under his direction and became the largest employer of labour in Oldham , the workforce rising from 400 in 1837 to 6,000 in 1870 . |
| 8 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 9 | The unrest lasted for three days and constituted the largest outbreak of racial violence in the US capital since the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King in 1968 . |
| 10 | The City was shocked when it learned that the Midland was the least profitable of the big four banks and had the weakest capital . |
| 11 | Seb arrived at the farmhouse and feared the worst when he saw the meeting was taking place in the ‘ best ’ sitting room and not in the kitchen . |
| 12 | On the third day Gabriel came again to the tree and found the youngest brother keeping watch . |
| 13 | Mr Lamont clearly had his hands tied by the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement figures and made the best of a bad job with £1.5bn in tax cuts and other incentives mainly for small businesses . |
| 14 | I calculated angles and distances and located the nearest exit . |
| 15 | According to a commentary on the report , Northern Ireland Crime Statistics , published by the Northern Ireland Office , the province was the ninth most peaceful in terms of crimes of violence against the person and had the lowest rate in the country for theft . |
| 16 | Gordon accepted the title and became the largest land- and vineyard-owner on the island . |
| 17 | Its disclosures also served to heighten the WEA 's apprehension about the problems inherent in the RAC policy and confirmed the worst fears of those WEA members who were involved in the difficult protracted negotiations currently in hand in early 1939 . |
| 18 | He reached into his pocket and extracted the largest coin he could find . |
| 19 | Mud particles filtered into the animal 's bodies and preserved the finest details of their anatomy . |
| 20 | ‘ We get a foreign bird to fly into our nest and lay the biggest egg of all time . |
| 21 | It was the most profitable car company in Britain and earned the highest margins of any Ford plant in Europe . |
| 22 | It was commissioned in 1865 by Lord Walsingham as a wedding present for his eldest daughter and took the finest craftsmen five years to complete . |
| 23 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 24 | She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand . |
| 25 | Others saved their own skins and left the worst-hit areas . |
| 26 | In their final game they defied normal logic and won the hardest game in their section by defeating the much fancied Holland , courtesy of a piece of outstanding arrogance by the diminutive midfield dynamo Archie Gemmill . |
| 27 | The gendarme stopped in front of the scattered luggage and prodded the nearest haversack with his foot , ordering the students to stack their belongings in a tidy pile against the wall . |
| 28 | Einstein identified the stress-energy tensor as the source of space–time curvature and suggested the simplest possible relationship between it and the curvature : where is a tensor describing space–time curvature and K is some scalar constant whose magnitude determines how effective the energy density is in distorting space time . |
| 29 | Connected to a 200Mb WD Caviar 2200 drive , this potent combo made a mockery of CoreTest and produced the highest What Personal Computer Power benchmark on record , over 25,000 . |
| 30 | Question : what did Spanish film-maker Aldomovar do before he achieved world domination and became the trendiest thing on the planet ? |