Example sentences of "that [vb past] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firms that avoided the worst excesses of the wheeling-dealing 1980s are making steady profits , and much of the loss was due to expensive restructuring at Shearson Lehman ( which spent $640m ) and Prudential-Bache ( $370m ) . |
| 2 | But it was guarding the Japanese prisoners in Changi Jail that made the deepest impression on the 20-year-old sergeant from Billingham . |
| 3 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 4 | He was left screaming in a terrible wailing sob that made the nearest infantry look nervously round . |
| 5 | It was , however , the Robbins Report in 1963 on higher education that made the strongest case for investment in education to aid economic growth . |
| 6 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 7 | We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too . |
| 8 | The Information Service companies that reported the highest pre-tax margins were Macro 4 at 46% ; Micro Focus and Sage Group level at 33% ; Barbour Index at 31% and Total Systems 27% . |
| 9 | That done , the program would select the play that promised the highest score . |
| 10 | Fenna came offering now only love , huge steady love and joy and that seemed the hardest thing to resist . |
| 11 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 12 | Again , it was the middle management ranks that suffered the severest cuts . |
| 13 | It was the concept of parole , originally at the discretion of the Home Secretary , but amended in the course of the passage of the legislation through Parliament so that he could grant early release on licence to a prisoner only if advised to do so by a statutory Parole Board , that commanded the keenest interest of penal reformers and had the most extensive effects . |
| 14 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 15 | 1954 ) it was the overcrowded or inadequate buildings that caused the greatest strain on family life . |
| 16 | The history books will list the world records , Olympic title and the record number of sub four-minute miles , but that alone does n't do justice to the man who consistently put his reputation on the line , changed our notions on the possible longevity of a miler 's career and who , I believe , was the inspiration that heralded the greatest decade in the history of British middle distance running . |
| 17 | Back and forth between its two summits , Points 265 and 295 , swayed the opposing forces , locked together in a crescendo of desperation that typified the worst of the months of ceaseless combat on the Left Bank . |
| 18 | Mr Travers , who drew his figures from public expenditure White Papers , said the sectors that enjoyed the biggest rises were education for the under-fives ( up nearly 90 per cent ) and children with special needs , both favourite Labour targets . |
| 19 | A computer whiz-kid , he had built up an electronics empire that rivalled the best in the world . |
| 20 | I liked that bit the best . |
| 21 | We examined the expression pattern of the transgene in four adult lines that contained the highest copy numbers ( see figure 4 ) . |
| 22 | Perhaps the one aristocrat that felt the greatest affinity with his fellow deaf was Lord Carbery , who was born deaf and never spoke in his life . |
| 23 | Okay well the one that went the furthest was |
| 24 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 25 | It was these communities that saw the greatest pattern of change during the middle ages although , with a couple of notable exceptions , this was a very long process indeed but with some sudden shifts of direction . |
| 26 | Spending on AFDC , in real terms , fell by nearly a fifth between 1975 and 1989 — the period that saw the biggest growth in illegitimate births . |
| 27 | But it was Beethoven 's Seventh Symphony after the interval that brought the greatest revelations . |
| 28 | ‘ I went into advertising because it was the thing that presented the biggest challenge to me after university , ’ he says . |
| 29 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |
| 30 | And Japan , many people 's paradigm of how finance should serve industry , has recently had markets that did the best impersonation of a casino anywhere . |