Example sentences of "were [verb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the time that they were completed the largest space of all was the nave , which might serve various purposes — as a shelter for great processions , as a substantial public hall and meeting place ; but above all provided space for visitors and lay worshippers . |
| 2 | Popescu , a former propaganda chief , and Totu , a former Foreign Minister , were given the longest prison sentences , of 5@1/2 years each , while the others received sentences of two to 4@1/2 years . |
| 3 | When , in 1939 , The Architects ' Journal conducted a survey to find what were considered the best modern buildings in Britain , Battersea was placed second — and was the favourite of such unlikely celebrities as Sir Kenneth Clark , Rebecca West and Charles Laughton . |
| 4 | He lived for racing , and he , Fred Archer , and George Fordham [ qq.v. ] were considered the finest jockeys of their time . |
| 5 | They were named the best Scout and Guide band and took the main award for the best band overall . |
| 6 | Chapman insisted , too , that his players should have decent club conditions , and the Highbury dressing-rooms were rated the best in the country at a time when most clubs were content to provide only the most spartan of facilities for changing and cleaning . |
| 7 | Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th . |
| 8 | By 1917 his paintings were to fetch the highest prices during his lifetime and in that year he is credited with painting one hundred and twenty-five canvases , a painting every three days . |
| 9 | ‘ We did not believe that we were getting the best range of stock into Dillons , ’ says Adrian Bourne , group managing director for sales . |
| 10 | They were getting the best of it , too , for there were only serving-people left and a few armed men , since the rest went off north with the courier . |
| 11 | In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families . |
| 12 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 13 | Disappointment that they were losing the best American M D they had ever had , after less than one year , and alarm in the knowledge that his demotion almost certainly meant the end of the recovery and expansion plans , and possibly the end of vehicle manufacture in the UK . |
| 14 | Andrea Palladio ( 1518–1580 ) the Italian architect , was revered and studied by English architects , who built adaptations of Italian palaces in England , but by the end of the century it was the Adam brothers who were having the greatest influence . |
| 15 | And thought we were doing the best possible thing we could do . |
| 16 | It was here that were found the richest markets . |
| 17 | Kwik Saves were judged the worst supermarkets and Wimpys the worst restaurants . |
| 18 | A rapid method of assaying samples was essential in order to discover which extracts were giving the best yields , and the sooner a stable crude preparation was obtained which could act as a standard , the better . |
| 19 | But can can I can I just come back to the point that if you were taking the lowest figure , I mean how realistic is it to assume that you could actually hold to that ? |
| 20 | And that presupposes in that calculation , if you were taking the worst case , that that would all be greenfield land . |
| 21 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 22 | We then went a stage further and to share the technology established joint teams for each of these major areas , so that er the specification while it was under Dasa 's leadership , it was actually done by a joint team which involved expertise from British Aerospace and the other three and er therefore at that time the whole Eurofighter consortium was confident that they were making the best use of the available expertise across the four partner companies , each bringing to the table , their own so that they could go forward on a confident basis . |
| 23 | They were discussing the latest political crisis , and so paid no attention to the blushes of the cringing lass , as Mum spread soap on her . |
| 24 | LUKE PARKED HIS Chevrolet Celebrity on the fifth floor of the studio carpark and rode down in the elevator with two minor executives in tracksuits who were discussing the latest records broken by ‘ 'T IS He Whose Yester-evening 's High Disdain ’ . |
| 25 | Do you think you also were hitting the rawest of nerves within the church , and maybe within Archbishop McQuaid himself , by suggesting there may be homosexuality among priests and even implying that people could get pleasure from sex ? |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
| 27 | In the ateliers of the palace the artists Govardhan , Bichitr and Abul Hasan were illuminating the finest of the great Mughal manuscript books ; in Agra , the gleaming white dome of the Taj Mahal was being raised on its plinth above the River Jumna . |