Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laughing Stock says that its Red Dwarf : Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers has achieved the highest sell-in for an audio book since the BBC 's Blackadder . |
| 2 | Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round . |
| 3 | The charges for prescriptions have seen the sharpest rise — an increase of no less than 1,425 per cent between 1979 and 1990 . |
| 4 | Helmut Rechenburg , his collaborator on this mammoth project , was Heisenberg 's last doctoral student , and clearly well suited to the task in hand Faced with so much material , it must be hard to know what to leave out , and the authors have chosen the best solution — leave nothing out . |
| 5 | Evidence that the drug cartels had infiltrated the latest judicial security system came with the murder of Myriam Rocío Vélez , 38 , a district court judge in the city of Medellín , who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sept. 18 . |
| 6 | New figures show that rural areas have seen the largest increase in offences , but that the rise is less than half that of the previous year . |
| 7 | These countries have won the biggest overseas slices of Calpers 's $14 billion fund . |
| 8 | Unspoilt havens on the coast are non-existent , but some smaller communities have escaped the worst . |
| 9 | The Conservatives have created the longest recession for 60 years . |
| 10 | By 1960 , power stations had become the largest single source . |
| 11 | The past four years have seen the largest accountancy firms dominate the auditing market , according to a new study . |
| 12 | They argue that banks have put the worst of their bad loans behind them and become more efficient , making record profits . |
| 13 | All of the Goodyear teams had chosen the softest race tyre available in the hope that the could run non-stop . |
| 14 | Animal rights campaigners have targetted the biggest livestock market in Europe . |
| 15 | New Zealand 's dairy and meat farmers have become the cheapest producers in the OECD , thanks to their country 's mild climate and to their average herd size of 160 cows , compared with the EC 's less-efficient average of only 20 cows . |
| 16 | why , in any case , should the Cro-Magnons have felt the slightest urge to exterminate the Neanderthals ( with whom it is thought they could have interbred ) ? |
| 17 | In these two decades , astronomers had identified the brightest radio sources , worked out that extragalactic sources have a double structure , calculated that the continuum emission is synchrotron radiation , and both predicted and discovered the 21-cm line emission from hydrogen atoms in space . |
| 18 | If Osman Abdelal and his sisters had climbed the furthest hill to the north , they might have just been able to see Mrs Zamzam 's refugee camp at Rashidiyeh . |
| 19 | In October , scientists from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the British National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concurred that levels had reached the lowest point for the year . |
| 20 | Each of the five Wedgwood Rooms had scored the biggest percentage sales increase in their region for the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 21 | Prolonged NHS under-funding causes daily problems , and GPs have had the worst year most of us can remember , trying diligently to make some sense of their government-imposed contracts . |
| 22 | Though a little patchy , there is more than enough to keep fans happy and several killer cuts that show Nirvana already distilling the heady brew of metal , punk and pop which was to lead to Smells Like Teen Spirit — the track critics have called the best rock song ever . |
| 23 | I wo n't b Actually pr although patio windows have got the greatest erm are of glass , |
| 24 | They have come from a war-ravaged country where their parents or friends have thought the best thing to do is to get them on a plane to some safer place . |
| 25 | ( I have taken into account the transfer of White and Rocky , and also when calculating totals have taken the highest monetary value player in each category ( full back , midfield etc ) ignoring whether they are injured or not ) |
| 26 | They were hunting for evidence in the horrific case which detectives have dubbed the worst since child killers and torturers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley . |
| 27 | Instead , the voters have presented the best possible result — one which eliminates uncertainty . |
| 28 | And aid volunteers have become the latest targets . |
| 29 | At Verdun in February 1916 the Germans had achieved the greatest concentration of air power yet seen — 168 planes , fourteen ‘ Drachen ’ balloons , four Zeppelins . |
| 30 | Comics have had the greatest punchbags and been the antidote to 12 years of Republican rule . |