Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On the third day Gabriel came again to the tree and found the youngest brother keeping watch . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gordon accepted the title and became the largest land- and vineyard-owner on the island . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He reached into his pocket and extracted the largest coin he could find . |
| 13 | ‘ We get a foreign bird to fly into our nest and lay the biggest egg of all time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She looked down at the floor and made the slightest movement with one hand . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Question : what did Spanish film-maker Aldomovar do before he achieved world domination and became the trendiest thing on the planet ? |
| 20 | She put out a hand and touched the nearest arm , and the driver turned round quickly . |
| 21 | However , for the last three seasons they 've been disappointed — unless like me , they were lucky enough to chance a late holiday and hit the best powder of the season . |
| 22 | By her insulation , Czechoslovakia has bought herself a safe and steady misery and avoided the worst buffetings of the decade : only 27.3 per cent of the country 's trade was conducted outside the Bloc in 1978 , compared with over 50 per cent in the case of Poland and Romania . |
| 23 | He flung open a pair of doors she had not even noticed in the gloom and revealed the largest room she had ever seen , endlessly high , and filled with the grey light of the sea . |
| 24 | Over on the heavy clays of Sussex , farmers needed a heavy plough animal and selected the nearest cattle they could find ( that was , from Wessex ) for shoulder muscle and draught power . |
| 25 | Spooner picked up on this idea and thought the best way to do it would be as an extended Perils of Pauline -type adventure , complete with ‘ How are they going to get out of that ? ’ endings . |
| 26 | The Celts , who were only superficially touched by Hellenistic civilization and represented the greatest terror for both Greeks and Romans , have simply been left outside the horizon of the traditional civilized Western world . |
| 27 | En Shao presided well over this strange remoteness and used the best of the atmospheric cathedral acoustic . |