Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] the most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been the most sought-after debutante of her year and , according to the occasional letter Alice had had from Lady Debrace , was forever receiving proposals from faithful admirers who danced constant attendance upon her . |
| 2 | Deceptively heavy eyelids gave her face an air of sleepy sensuality which boyfriends vowed was the most tantalising thing they 'd ever seen , but which she always felt quite at odds with her true feelings . |
| 3 | The dispute that followed is the most acrimonious in Britain since 1986 when Rupert Murdoch dismissed his printers and moved his newspapers to Wapping . |
| 4 | So this year , for New Scientist 's student books issue , we invited nine people to select what they thought were the most interesting books for students published during the past year . |
| 5 | I asked a girl of twelve what she thought was the most important thing to stress in my book ? |
| 6 | The way people looked was the most shocking thing . |
| 7 | The looting that ensued was the most notorious act of plunder in the history of the Republic . |
| 8 | The Leningrad city and regional Communist Party first secretary and leading conservative , Boris Gidaspov , had been the most prominent local party leader to ignore party recommendations and had refrained from standing in the elections to the Russian Supreme Soviet , having apparently anticipated the kind of defeat inflicted at the polls on March 4 and 18 on many other Russian city and regional party secretaries . |
| 9 | Throughout his three great journeys of discovery and exploration , Captain James Cook had been the most assiduous of diarists , keeping an almost daily record of thoughts and observations . |
| 10 | For twenty years Marcus Judge had been the most powerful figure on Jubilee Wharf , second only to the Wharfmaster himself . |
| 11 | Although the London unemployed had been the most vociferous during the depression years they had achieved very little . |
| 12 | The Czechoslovak and Polish delegations had been the most vehement opponents of an immediate switch to the new system , as proposed on Jan. 9 by the Soviet Prime Minister , Nikolai Ryzhkov . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of this was raised through excises , which had been the most common method in the late Tsarist period . |
| 14 | This stance was rejected by extremist elements in the military , and by the richest and most right-wing families who had been the most fervent supporters of the coup . |
| 15 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 16 | In the four decades since the break with the Soviet Union in 1948 Yugoslavia had been the most open and liberal communist state , but in the wake of the recent overthrow of communist monopolies across Eastern Europe it now found itself , as The Times of Jan. 19 noted , " at the tail-end of East European reforms " . |
| 17 | Towards the end of his life , when giving a talk on his career at the Royal College of Art , Minton was asked what had been the most difficult factor to contend with . |
| 18 | During the period of Tatar domination from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth centuries , Russia under the Golden Horde had been the most westerly province of the great Mongol Empire founded by Genghis Khan ; but from 1582 onwards the tide was turned and the European Slavs rapidly found themselves rulers of a vast colonial domain stretching across Asia to the northern Pacific . |
| 19 | Venezuela had been the most outspoken critic of the Iraqi position , arguing to maintain the existing price of $18 a barrel . |
| 20 | Her rebellion had been the most damaging of all blows to the Old King 's cause and pride ; and she would be punished accordingly . |
| 21 | Still , it had been the most enormous fun , the café groups in the mornings , the theatre parties , the concerts they 'd put on themselves . |
| 22 | Throughout her childhood , indeed until the day she died , Montaine had been the most important person in Jean-Claude 's life . |
| 23 | St. Albans itself stood next to the remains of the ancient Roman city of Verulamium , which had been the most important Roman settlement in Britain after London . |
| 24 | Until that time Tomsk , with Irkutsk , had been the most important city in Siberia . |
| 25 | His administration had been the most productive of the century , save only that of the Liberals in 1906 . |
| 26 | ( In a referendum in 1982 Commonwealth status had been the most popular option ) . |
| 27 | The PRD had been the most forceful voice in its condemnation of the electoral reforms finally passed by the Congress on July 15 [ see p. 37274 ] , stating that these would preserve PRI majorities in the Chambers of Deputies and the Senate . |
| 28 | ‘ What Maradona said is the most stupid declaration of the Eighties by a football player , ’ said the Fifa spokesman Guido Tognoni , who added that no disciplinary action would be taken against the player . |
| 29 | Only one woman out of the forty actually claimed unequivocally to like ironing , and she said she knew she was unusual , particularly in the satisfaction she gets from ironing shirts , an activity which many of the other housewives said was the most intolerable of all . |
| 30 | Looking back on the deal , Chapman believed that ‘ one of the best bargains I ever made was the most costly one . ’ |