Example sentences of "the [adv] [verb] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 2 | The hardest worked were the female freedom fighters . |
| 3 | One of the best known is the hard brown ‘ marble ’ or ‘ bullet ’ gall , about 10–15mm in diameter , found on oak trees . |
| 4 | The best known is the groove-billed ani , whose extraordinary breeding behaviour has been studied by Sandy Verhencamp in Costa Rica . |
| 5 | One of the best known is the Brasher Hillmaster from Reebok ( £80 ) , which was designed around a running-shoe last and is incredibly comfortable , while providing a degree of water resistance from its integral membrane . |
| 6 | At its crudest this takes the form of the assumption that writing is automatically made beautiful through the addition of certain standardized linguistic ornaments ( ornatus in Latin ) of which the best known are the various poetic ‘ figures ’ , metaphor , antithesis , hyperbole and the like . |
| 7 | Further , there are certain exceptions to the charge , the best known being the first £2,500 recovered or preserved in certain matrimonial proceedings . |
| 8 | As well as writing two novels , he wrote several books about church architecture and liturgy , the best known being The English Cathedral of the Nineteenth Century , and numerous pamphlets , essays and letters to the press . |