Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been found , for instance , that widowers comprised the largest proportion of late-onset elderly alcoholics . |
| 2 | It was a different story around the rest of the country , where business was brisk and supermarkets reported the busiest day of the year . |
| 3 | Public utilities such as electricity , gas , water and telecommunications provided the best examples of what were considered to be natural monopolies , although when technological advances are made , certain industries formerly classed as natural monopolies may cease to be so ( eg telecommunications ) . |
| 4 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 5 | Transport and communications received the largest allocation , 23.8 per cent of the proposed budget , followed by agriculture with 18.5 per cent . |
| 6 | With the end of the annual budget subsidy from South Africa and the need to increase spending on infrastructure — the Ministry of Transport , Works and Communications received the highest allocation — there was a deficit of R210,000,000 . |
| 7 | He constantly proclaimed that the sons of blacksmiths and grooms made the best veterinary surgeons — a general proposition supported by Percivall in 1842 — although he denied that he ever said surgeons made the worst . |
| 8 | This growth has continued , notwithstanding the collapse of communism , interpreted by some short-sighted commentators as the ‘ death of socialism ’ , but indeed perhaps gaining new strength from that collapse , as I argued earlier ; and in the early 1990s not only were there active socialist governments in some countries , but socialists formed the largest , most influential group in the European Parliament . |
| 9 | Some employers introduced ‘ speed-up ’ for their factory hands , resulting in less work for homeworkers , while others gave the best paying work to their indoor hands and gave out only the inferior grades of work which required the most time spent on it to houses where the inspectors were unlikely to penetrate . |
| 10 | Single capacity was supposed to reduce conflicts of interest as brokers found the best prices from jobbers for their clients and jobbers competed amongst each other to produce fair prices . |