Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty is that the sites which have been extensively excavated , and so produced the largest quantities of pottery , such as Corbridge and Newstead , are multi-period , and the stratification of the excavations early in the century , consequently suspect . |
| 2 | Such men owed their positions to the constant manipulation of the party machinery — and so confirmed the worst of Ostrogorski 's fears ; they sat on every local committee , raised money for the local party , decided the selection of candidates and kept their fingers firmly on the local pulse . |
| 3 | The business grew as new plants were built at Leeds and elsewhere , and soon became the biggest spinning firm . |
| 4 | LAURA DISCOVERED HER LOVE OF NATURE HERE AND ALWAYS RETAINED THE HAPPIEST MEMORIES OF HER YEARS IN KENT . |
| 5 | He had raised his voice so that it carried through the babel of the many conversations at the high table , and even reached the nearest of the lesser knights below . |
| 6 | Phone cards have done a lot to alleviate the problem , but British Telecommunications Plc is required by its licence to maintain coin-operated public telephones as well , and the company reckons that smashing and entering of the cash boxes costs it £19m a year — and if you think that it 's all just casual vandalism , think again — the company told the Daily Mail that there was actually a man offering courses on the best ways of clawing open the boxes quickly and easily — he charged £80 for the course , and then took the best pupil out for a test run around the local boxes . |
| 7 | Reared by the pupils , all 12 and 13 , it was fattened and pampered , shampoo 'd and scrubbed — and then judged the best pig of all , Supreme Champion . |
| 8 | We could not identify all such workers as complete records have not survived and instead used the closest approximations possible — namely , records incorporating home address of all those ( more than 17000 ) attending the medical centre at the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland during its construction phase ( believed to represent a high proportion of all but short stay workers ) ; 3500 construction workers at the Flotta oil terminal in Orkney ( incomplete data ) ; and more than 10000 offshore workers , being all those who obtained an offshore survival certificate ( required for such work ) in Scotland in the period from June 1976 ( the earliest date for which records have not been destroyed ) to 1980 . |