Example sentences of "[noun sg] were the [adj -est] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Masterminding this great force were the best brains in Germany , for the military profession carried a prestige unequalled by any other . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In severely ill children presenting to a referral hospital at 1670 m altitude the logistic regression prediction models we have developed indicate that for newborn infants and those up to 2 months of age history of cyanosis reported by the mother was the best predictor of hypoxaemia ; a respiratory rate of >=70/min,; retractions , and grunting were the best predictors in infants 3–11 months old ; and in children 12 months and older a respiratory rate of >=60/min; was the best predictor of hypoxaemia . |
| 5 | Some of the people who became the greatest successes in the Bible were the weediest failures in the eyes of other people at the time . |
| 6 | Lamps lighting the desks at the nurses ' station were the brightest things in this open central space , and one of the lamps was catching Tom 's hair in its light , giving the short locks a golden glow like a halo , and bringing his commanding profile into sharp focus . |
| 7 | The everyday things of life were the greatest gifts to ben Eliezer ; even as the human heart was the most appropriate place of worship . |
| 8 | B Once Fokine had demonstrated that mimed dance and danced mime were the best materials to use in ballets where individual characters had to stand out from the rest of the cast , and particularly when true love did not run smoothly , other choreographers. followed suit . |
| 9 | Mosca argued that mathematics and physics were the best paradigms for a science of politics ( 1939 , p. 4 ) , while Pareto was enthusiastic about geometry and the physical sciences . |
| 10 | Speed and endurance record-breaking and long-distance racing were the surest forms of testing and advertising . |
| 11 | The moral faculty needed to govern the sexual instinct , organizing it on ‘ broad , well-marked mental foundations ’ .30 Chastity , continence and self-control were the highest forms of sexual development because they were regulated by reason and a knowledge of the providential laws of human nature . |
| 12 | A touch of restraint on his horse 's reins to reduce its gallop and an extravagant sign of the cross were the best amends he could make this time for his inability to comply . |