Example sentences of "there was [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the heaviest raid so far , lasting four hours . |
| 2 | Organised team games like soft-ball or squash hold small attraction even if there was the remotest chance of being selected for the team . |
| 3 | There was the faintest of clicks and the door moved inward a fraction . |
| 4 | She wondered if there was the faintest chance of impressing them with the significance of her position . |
| 5 | But a moment later there was the faintest note of trepidation when he said , ‘ But who will tell Barbara ? |
| 6 | There was the faintest of smiles on Ben 's lips . |
| 7 | Up in the sky , there was the faintest glimmering of a moon . |
| 8 | There was the faintest of breezes that took away some of the heat , making it beautifully cool . |
| 9 | There was the faintest of sounds , as of a gnat yawning . |
| 10 | There was the faintest of sounds , like the rattle of old teeth . |
| 11 | There was the faintest of grinding noises , deep under the earth . |
| 12 | There was the faintest of scrabblings in the darkness . |
| 13 | There was the faintest whiff of irony in the fax which Grant Baird , head of Scotland Europa , sent to Highlands & Islands Enterprise on hearing that it had been elevated to Objective One status in the European Community , entitling it to the maximum amount of regional development funds . |
| 14 | And there was the best one of course , your cousin was able to use . |
| 15 | What my hon. Friend has said is certainly the case at Rover , but it has also been the case throughout industry during the past year , when there was the lowest number of strikes for more than 45 years . |
| 16 | It was low water , consequently all the shipping in port was in the most imminent danger and … there was the greatest reason to fear that the flames would , from it , soon be communicated to the town … |
| 17 | And then there was the greatest ace of them all , Otto Kretschmer , whose record of having sunk a quarter of a million tons of Allied shipping was never beaten , Kretschmer who had perfected the night tactics , taught him by Dönitz , of letting a convoy pass over him , surfacing between the lines , loosing off torpedoes at ships either side of him , then diving again to get clear . |
| 18 | There was the merest hint of vulnerability in the urgency of his need for her . |
| 19 | In 1771 he preached also at the flourishing society of Derryanville and at Kilmoriarty there was the largest congregation he had seen during the week . |
| 20 | There was the largest hornets ' nest he had ever seen , hanging right in his path . |
| 21 | Now in the lock museum I 've taken some locks th that I collected and took them over there they used to do speed locks butted locks sidecar locks er then , as the motor trade changed from all wood frames to metal frames , other types of locks , I took there but this is what is amazing me , they , at the lock museum they highlight all the Willinghall locks which are the padlocks , which are locks er wardrobe locks , cabinet locks and all the smaller type of locks but there was the biggest industry , I mean Walsall locks are still in existence now , they made er er locks for , for , for cars , the Bloxwich lock , that was their biggest trade was er , was er the bigger locks . |
| 22 | In 1942 , there was the biggest parade ever seen in Oxford . |
| 23 | Then there was the barest rustle of wings in the night and Creggan saw that staring at him , from the next cage , was Slorne , quite silent , but her eyes full of a terrible entreaty . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ We were saying the recession there was the worst since the second world war , ’ he comments . |
| 26 | Er we believe that cost us many many millions of pounds , secondly , there was the worst recession that the airline industry has had , thirdly , has been er a you know we 're a growing company , we 're investing . |
| 27 | Wester Ross , Orkney and North Wales , the areas where one felt there was the strongest community spirit , supported the role of wives . |
| 28 | Even though Jennifer Capriati produced arguably the performance of the tournament when she beat world champion Monica Seles in the quarter finals at Key Biscayne , there was the strongest feeling still that her new partnership with Steffi Graf 's former coach , Pavel Slozil , could not work . |
| 29 | Midway through the afternoon there was the longest grind comp , in which dreadlocked local favourite Colin was beaten surprisingly by Richie , the Pete Rodgers for the nineties , whose reliably long stand-ups proved too much for everyone else . |
| 30 | ‘ At every block , it seemed , there was the latest , the greatest . |