Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to police college on April Fools ' day , 1970 , where he was the best student among his intake . |
| 2 | or what was the highest score on the first one ? |
| 3 | Although I had thrown a stink-bomb through their letter-box ( I was dared to do so ) and had once pulled the belt off Gertie 's dress when teasing her , I do believe that I was the nearest to being a friend of Jossey 's , than anyone . |
| 4 | I am very proud that I was the highest scorer for Darlington for many years . |
| 5 | I think it was fortunate that I was the eldest . |
| 6 | ‘ Miss Mates said that I was the best and most hard-working girl she had ever had , ’ she answered proudly . |
| 7 | He always wore a gown , he beat boys whenever he thought it necessary , he did not need to assert that his was the best school in Wales , if not Britain . |
| 8 | Edna enlarged upon how well Karen had done at college , how , although she was the youngest in her family , she was always being called upon whenever she was at home to help out with other people 's children , how she had passed her driving test at the first attempt . |
| 9 | When she looked at him through her veil her fears vanished and she thought that she was the luckiest girl in the world . |
| 10 | Not that there was the slightest danger of Bob getting into that these days , thank you very much . |
| 11 | provided that there was the fullest consultation between the two bodies in respect of any developments which might occur , and no settlement would be reached without the miners ' consent . |
| 12 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 13 | This was n't an especially spectacular event , although it was the biggest eruption on Etna for some years , and there were no casualties , but none the less it was very instructive . |
| 14 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 15 | I did , and came to the conclusion that it was the best sauce for lobster ever invented ; and it is extraordinary that it has remained for so long buried in the cookery books . |
| 16 | Nick 's friends wrote that it was the best party they had ever been to , a truly unforgettable occasion . |
| 17 | Club honorary secretary Chris Mountain said that it was the best start to a season he had seen the team make . |
| 18 | They were in total agreement that it was the best thing for both sides that Isabelle should go . |
| 19 | I said a large mug of strong , sweet tea would do the job and she agreed , adding that it was the best thing ‘ after a shock ’ . |
| 20 | Liz had giggled , before explaining that it was the eldest son , Ross , who now ran the family business — consisting of two merchant banks and many companies both here , in England , and abroad . |
| 21 | The winter of nineteen forty was extremely bad , in fact most people say that it was the worst winter of the war . |
| 22 | They boasted that it was the worst they 'd ever known , and could expect a million profit with confidence . |
| 23 | Much as we longed for another child , and overjoyed as we were that we were to have another daughter , we both said that it was the hardest thing we had ever done , to see a lovely young mother say goodbye to her daughter . |
| 24 | It was depressing to think that he was the closest friend that the old man had , and it stirred all the usual guilt feelings — should have gone to see him more often , and so on . |
| 25 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 26 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 27 | When he defected to Benetton last year after just one outing , his old boss Eddie Jordan still charged him £150,000 compensation per Grand Prix race for the privilege of confirming that he was the nearest thing to Ayrton Senna since , well , Ayrton Senna . |
| 28 | I thought when I first saw Mr. Belville at the masquerade that he was the finest gentleman I had ever seen . |
| 29 | His attitude was that he was the greatest gossip writer on Fleet Street and only the best was good enough for his column . |
| 30 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |