Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A manual describing the art was written in Holland in 1674 , and at that time it was the Dutch who produced the best work . |
| 2 | Who became the youngest MP when he won the Louth by-election in 1969 ? |
| 3 | This is a delicate negotiation and if at a later stage the prospective purchaser who made the highest offer withdraws , the other parties may have lost interest or not wish to participate . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll make the bread sauce if you like , ’ said Betty selflessly ; so Lydia let her , which was fairly unselfish of Lydia who made the best bread sauce in the world with a great deal of butter , nutmeg and black pepper . |
| 5 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 6 | WHETHER it was Major , Kinnock or Ashdown who made the greatest impression on the viewers , we shall know on Friday morning . |
| 7 | Who got the highest score ? |
| 8 | As the ‘ lucky ’ person who drew the shortest straw to be editor of the first edition of the revamped CIBLINGS , it comes down to me to think of something to fill the vast amount of space which is the front page . |
| 9 | Who designed the latest Brownie uniform ? |
| 10 | Each party would be entitled to nominate one candidate , and the council would comprise those candidates ( between three and five in number ) who obtained the highest number of votes . |
| 11 | The study of hospital patients by Ferguson and MacPheal concluded as follows : ‘ The ex-patients who showed the heaviest mortality at early ages , the strongest tendency to relapse and the poorest record in point of early return to work were the group of unskilled labourers . ’ |
| 12 | As usual it was Paddy Mayne who achieved the best bag , a total of fifteen aircraft at Berka Satellite airfield . |
| 13 | Shopworkers who spent the best part of a day locked out of work are sympathetic with the police , but angry with the terrorists . |
| 14 | It was those with the deepest roots in industry and the urban environment who developed the strongest sense of the workers as a class apart with its own distinctive interests and goals . |
| 15 | THE big names of British showbusiness were out in force at this year 's Royal Variety Show — but it was overseas performers who milked the loudest applause . |
| 16 | As we shall show in greater detail later , Descartes justified his principle of linear inertia by ostensibly deducing it from the immutability of God — a God who conserved the simplest kind of motion in the world . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps the prospect of centuries of boredom at the end of history will serve to get history started again ’ , speculates Francis Fukuyama , the US State Department official who started the latest fashion for this idea . |
| 18 | It was people in higher socio-economic groups , of high education , and particularly those with bank accounts who named the widest selection of credit sources . |
| 19 | The bravest of the brave : Fullback Jim Staples prepared to clear his lines as All Black skipper Sean Fitzpatrick — who lost the best part of two of his front teeth to an Irish fist — hems him in during the record 59–6 loss to New Zealand in Wellington . |
| 20 | But then at Vladimir , Holly had been segregated from the mass of the zeks , the convicts who formed the greatest part of the prison population . |
| 21 | He also stressed that : ‘ The theory behind such a scheme — which can better be called ‘ market socialism ’ than ‘ privatisation ’ — is that the managers could then buy services from producers who offered the best value' ( Enthoven , 1985b ) . |
| 22 | The theory behind such a scheme — which can better be called ‘ market socialism ’ than ‘ privatisation ’ — is that the managers could then buy services from producers who offered the best value . |
| 23 | As for the economy , when it hurts in this recession , the pain is felt most — in a way that is most unfair — by the same families and communities who felt the worst pain in every other recession . |
| 24 | AN OBJECT lesson for all those who bemoan the artistic indifference of government , last night 's Omnibus ( BBC 1 ) looked at a political leader who took the closest interest in art , a mediocre and embittered water-colourist who eventually turned to another medium — mass emotion and warfare . |
| 25 | Her village , like any other , had its share of gossipmongers who took the sketchiest rumour and added and added to it . |
| 26 | He lodged with the scholarly Tjokroaminoto whose household was a kind of ashram , and who introduced the latest arrival to the new nationalism of Sarekat Islam . |
| 27 | The men of 602 were part of that group of young men who gave the greatest gift of all in 1941 , when the Battle of Britain stopped the Nazi war-machine over the fields of southern England , the Scots accounting for 130 of the 175 enemy aircraft downed . |
| 28 | Shepherd looked to the T'ang , who gave the slightest nod of agreement before standing and bowing to his hostess . |
| 29 | The Corporals followed behind him , throwing stuff everywhere and beating anybody who did the slightest thing wrong . |
| 30 | There was a question , ‘ Who won the Best Actor Oscar the year of Midnight Cowboy ? ’ |