Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 2 | Though they would hate to admit it , the rock press was once the most important stepping-stone on the way from obscurity to celebrity . |
| 3 | Organization at the grassroots level was clearly the most urgent need in order to reach remote starving villages , yet in Tsaritsyn as in other gubernii no local relief committees were set up at the uezd and volost' levels until October 1921 , that is , over two months after the formation of the guberniia committee . |
| 4 | Warne 's wonder ball was all the more special because it was the first he had bowled in an Ashes contest . |
| 5 | According to Podolski ( 1986 , pp. 112–13 ) : ‘ The development of the Eurocurrency system was perhaps the most important financial innovation of the post war period … comparable to that of coke smelting in the development of iron and steel , the steam engine in the development of railways … ‘ . |
| 6 | The State Paper Office was architecturally the most interesting building to be demolished to make way for the present Foreign Office . |
| 7 | A kitchen maid was usually the most menial servant in a house . |
| 8 | It is worth remembering that , at the moment when Manhattan 's business thus began to reach for the skies , New York 's Lower East side was probably the most overcrowded slum area in the western world with over 520 persons per acre . |
| 9 | While it was not the sole cause of this , the poll tax was undoubtably the most important single factor . |
| 10 | To the peoples of the Aegean islands and mainland Greece ivory was all the more precious for being an exotic material . |
| 11 | This twenty-five-day trial was probably the most talked about for many years . |
| 12 | The time factor was obviously the most urgent one and my five months in England were used to forward the plans for operating the Department when once it got back to Burma . |