Example sentences of "now [verb] the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancer now became the biggest thing in my life . |
| 2 | This now places the highest premium on the individual player as the element most likely to win the tournament . |
| 3 | That now looks the likeliest outcome . |
| 4 | Harvard now has the finest collection of such material outside of Korea ’ . |
| 5 | Britain now has the best road safety record in the European Community — helped by Conservative legislation , including making the wearing of seat belts compulsory . |
| 6 | The city now has the highest per-head rate of fatal police shootings in the country : double that of New York and nearly triple that of Chicago . |
| 7 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 8 | Welsh manufacturing now has the highest productivity of any part in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Outside the US , the UK now has the highest number of cellular subscribers anywhere in the world , and by the year 2000 as many as 20% of the UK population are expected to be users . |
| 10 | In fact Washroom Hygiene now has the lowest termination rate of all services in the Division ! |
| 11 | But Britain now has the lowest ratio of spending to GDP in the European Community . |
| 12 | I am delighted that the recently privatised Harland and Wolff now has the longest order book in its history , with £565 million worth of orders , that it is competing successfully with the Koreans and the Japanese , that the future of 2,500 of its people is assured and that it is the premier shipyard in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | A senior official , Cheng Xianshun , stressed however that " although Tibet now has the bluest sky and cleanest water in the world , we should not be smug and must pay full attention to all environmental problems which will arise in the course of economic development " . |
| 14 | Vauxhall continues to close the gap on Ford , which now has the biggest market share by just 2.24 per cent . |
| 15 | Scum fans claim they 've now got the best pitch in the Premiership . |
| 16 | Scott knew that Annabel was now facing the worst moment any model can face : she was officially over the hill , gaining weight , losing her looks and on the downward path to wrinkles and sag . |
| 17 | Annual global emission rates of carbon dioxide ( expressed in terms of weight of carbon ) from fossil-fuel burning were over 5 Gt C per year through the 1980s and approached 6 Gt C per year by 1990 , with oil now providing the largest contribution ( figure 6.10 ) . |
| 18 | Britain is now experiencing the longest drought on record since 1745 . |
| 19 | Folks are now saying the best case for a NT rollout is May/June , more likely June , and other ISV types are shaking their heads and betting its September . |
| 20 | Every step now required the greatest care , for even the mere laying hold of a loose stone might have proved fatal . |
| 21 | The rest of the council , whatever their reaction to the initial seizure of the prince , must have recognized that Gloucester now offered the best hope of stability in a difficult situation . |
| 22 | The rest of the council , whatever their reaction to the initial seizure of the prince , must have recognized that Gloucester now offered the best hope of stability in a difficult situation . |
| 23 | It is almost unknown in Africa and Asia , while in the West , from being relatively rare as recently as the 1920s , it has now become the commonest disorder of the large intestine . |
| 24 | The puzzled head-scratching continued in some quarters , but helpless shrugging had now become the latest craze . |
| 25 | Hazel now had the clearest knowledge of where he was . |
| 26 | Dr George Carey , the Archbishop of Canterbury , now faces the toughest test of his leadership in holding the church together . |
| 27 | Now begins the best half-an-hour of the day , the drive to work . |
| 28 | We now have the largest investment programme of capital investment in the national health service that we have ever had . |
| 29 | A succession of Conservative Home Secretaries have ensured that we now have the largest prison building programme this century , with nine prisons built and 4,000 places provided , and 12 new prisons on the way . |
| 30 | We now have the toughest set of controls on animal experimentation in Europe , and the number of animals used in experiments has fallen steadily . |