Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pron] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three thousand members of the British Shops and Stores Association ( which , since last Autumn has incorporated NARF ) , were invited to nominate the flooring manufacturer who has given them the best service . |
| 2 | The ANC described the membership of the five MPs ( who were subsequently expelled from the DP ) as formalizing a " long-standing relationship which has earned them the greatest respect " and as underlining the ANC 's commitment to " a truly non-racial South Africa " . |
| 3 | That was my first impression of a city whose disastrous birth rate has made it the largest in the world , a vast expanse of concentrated housing broken only by open spaces of baked earth where the wind-blown dust swirled , and far away to port the snow-capped volcanic hulks of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl towering huge through the burnt brown atmosphere . |
| 4 | All of that suggests that the sheep industry is poised to make the most of the structural accident that has made it the biggest producer of lamb in the Northern Hemisphere . |
| 5 | In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America . |
| 6 | And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever . |
| 7 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
| 8 | Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life . |
| 9 | Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’ |
| 10 | Because he 's given me the greatest gift of friendship . |
| 11 | ( So the crew would protest ) ‘ that he 's bought us the best — |