Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Correlations were calculated across the largest number of subjects possible in each case , this can be 30 , 28 or 25 , see the degrees of freedom in the correlation table in Appendix 1.2 . |
| 2 | The Cathedral arms were placed on the largest candles — not the tapers which the pious burnt in the side chapels but the candles which were placed on the high altar . |
| 3 | All the possible approaches were guarded by the best Italian troops , and fighting a way inwards entailed a series of attacks and counter-attacks . |
| 4 | Desks were regarded as the biggest culprit for damage , followed by doors and their handles . |
| 5 | Once recruited they were marched to the nearest railway station , entrained on a variety of wagons , and transported to recruiting reception centres and on to the mines . |
| 6 | The front three rows on the right were occupied by the wealthiest black families in the valley . |
| 7 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 8 | It was they whose immediate vision was one of attempting to escape from the grind of poverty , and whose children were confined to the lowest levels of education offered in the elementary schools and the secondary , or ‘ post-Hadow ’ , schools . |
| 9 | This was followed by the bowling-alley racket of stones and boulders ricocheting off the walls of the crater as they ascended from a great depth to gush out over our heads in billowing clouds of debris and Our equipment , clothes and bodies were penetrated by the finest , hardest black dust . |
| 10 | In the final analysis , neither specialization , nor " crude and slovenly workmanship " , nor technical inadequacies , were seen as the greatest dangers . |
| 11 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 12 | Artefacts were manufactured in the finest of the United Kingdom workshops and factories of the era , and the Twining Model Co. was chosen to assist the manufacturers where necessary . |
| 13 | Apart from the otherwise unknown ‘ M. de Navarre ’ who provided the text of Didon , the cantatas in Campra 's first book were written by the best opera librettists of the day Antoine Danchet ( nos. l-2 ) and Pierre-Charles Roy ( nos. 4–6 ) . |
| 14 | SCOTTISH Tories , awaiting their election counts in the early hours of Friday , were prepared for the worst . |
| 15 | So the nurses were prepared for the worst , also . |
| 16 | Mr Richard Warburton , director general of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents , said : ‘ If you were looking for the highest standards of safety , then you would be separating people from their vehicles in the tunnel . ’ |
| 17 | The praise lavished upon Henry V by his contemporaries , by no means all English , is indicative of the admiration accorded to one whose hold upon his men was such that , for a while , those parts of France under English control were freed of the worst excesses committed by soldiers . |
| 18 | Although we both knew that we were acting from the best possible motives , I argued , other people were always ready to place a malicious interpretation on their neighbours ' doings and it might therefore be better to wait before breaking the news . |
| 19 | Their bristles were made from the finest hair available , taken from inside the ear of a goat . |
| 20 | They had a good past and a reasonable future , but they were ruined by the highest interest rates this century and an unrealistic exchange rate , which lost them export markets and provided further competition in their home markets . |
| 21 | At the end of the trial period all the diaries are collated , most importance being attached to those effects which were produced in the greatest number of provers . |
| 22 | If you stepped out of line , then look out , but you quickly learned to do as you were told at the greatest possible speed . |
| 23 | were mastered like the latest |
| 24 | Situated in Mayfair , directly across the park from her own house , its clients were drawn from the highest echelons of society . |
| 25 | Shells were measured to the nearest 0.1 mm , using a vernier caliper , and the sample mean calculated for collections of 100 shells ( later reduced to 50 and then 30 as it became apparent that increasing the number of measurements did not improve the accuracy of the mean ) ( Fig. 23 ) . |
| 26 | Farther to the northeast a very striking coalification maximum is developed in the horst of Ibbenbüren , where , in the coal mining area , Rm-values of 2–3% Rm were measured in the youngest Westphalian ( C and D ) at or near the ground surface . |
| 27 | For this reason Unani hospitals were equipped with the best cooks , and , in the case of the sixth-century Bait al-Hikmah in Baghdad , a whole troupe of singers and musicians as well . |
| 28 | That shop you were going at the cheapest one . |
| 29 | Indeed some of the grandest designs were based on the weakest economic need . |
| 30 | Despite the arrival of occasional parvenus such as Speransky in the early decades of the nineteenth century , the Tsar was surrounded by military and civil advisers who were bound by the strongest bonds to the serf-owning nobility . |