Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] were the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These republics had many of the Soviet Union 's most modern industries and its most successful farms , and living standards were the highest in the USSR . |
| 2 | FRENCH labour exchange employees were the latest to go on strike — in protest at mounting work caused by rising joblessness — as labour unrest proliferated yesterday . |
| 3 | Bachelor uncles were the worst difficulty . |
| 4 | The AEEU survey showed that the south-east of England and the west Midlands were the worst affected regions . |
| 5 | The instruments already used for the special place exam were the easiest to adopt , and existing eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds took the exam for reallocation . |
| 6 | Four types of areas were created for general practice : designated areas where the size of G.P. lists were the highest through to intermediate and restricted areas where G.P. list sizes were the lowest . |
| 7 | If some topsy-turvy thinking on The Fairy Queen were the worst result of our ready belief in printed things , there would be little enough reason to complain . |
| 8 | One day he had asked his parents if the Wrath eagles were the greatest of the golden eagles , and after a long pause his mother said , ‘ No eagle is greater than another , all of us are the same wherever we come from and whatever kind we are . |
| 9 | Indeed , the morning returns were the best in Salver history , the spring sunshine and Steve Lowe 's immaculately-prepared course no doubt assisting the compiling of ten scores under the scratch of 70 . |
| 10 | In December , air quality levels were the worst for 11 years , with carbon monoxide at 13.3 parts per million , and nitrogen dioxide at 243 parts per billion ? |
| 11 | That Christmas , the Boozebuster girls were the sharpest thing in town . |
| 12 | However , the high incidence of dangerous lobon-gur solutions was very worrying , especially since those unions in the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme were the greatest offenders . |
| 13 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century , the Highland Scots were the tallest and heaviest of the European peoples . |
| 14 | Many of the older folk will remember Bobby Whale , who ran a fried fish shop from his house in Kent Road , and old Mrs Poysden whose toffee apples were the best I 've ever tasted . |
| 15 | Four types of areas were created for general practice : designated areas where the size of G.P. lists were the highest through to intermediate and restricted areas where G.P. list sizes were the lowest . |
| 16 | Facing out towards the sea and the cold north light were the largest windows Alexandra had ever seen , huge soaring panes of glass reaching from the terrace to the guttering below the slates . |
| 17 | So I , I ca n't really say my school days were the happiest days , they certainly were n't . |
| 18 | Similarly working class audiences were the heaviest listeners to BBC Radio 1 and 2 and ILR stations , and middle class listeners made up two-thirds of the audience for BBC Radio 3 and 4 . |
| 19 | On marketing , while branch managers said they believed interest rates were the biggest attraction to new customers , for the customers the key was close proximity to a branch . |
| 20 | Undergraduates on Christmas vacation were the biggest group of helpers , but their colleagues were attracted from a wide catchment of background and experience . |
| 21 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |