Example sentences of "for [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 Hence it is vain to go to historical consciousness for the truest meaning .
2 Here was a country striving for the noblest ideals , breaking new ground …
3 Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals .
4 The only drawback is their price — anything from about £8 per square metre for the plainest types , up to £20 per square metre , or sometimes a lot more for elaborate designs .
5 Yard-high walls of bananas waited at road turnings for the Geest lorry to collect .
6 Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise .
7 It had been the custom from early times to name children after their godparents ; precisely because the paternal grandfather was an obvious choice to fulfil such an office for the eldest-born son , the impression we often receive — wrongly , perhaps — is that a specific Christian name was perpetuated just because it was that borne by the male-line grandparent .
8 It can either tough it out , claiming virtue in its readiness to take hard decisions in the national interest ; or it can assemble safeguards and concessions and proclaim compassion for the neediest .
9 An ardent Puritan and uncompromising parliamentarian , Moyer in June 1642 was made a manager of the ‘ Sea Adventure ’ , through which the city undertook to find ships and men for the reconquest of Ireland .
10 Parties compete for the greenest mantle .
11 GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions .
12 By JOHN EDWARDS GARY McAllister last night vowed to make Spurs pay for the darkest moment of Leeds ' reign as champions .
13 I now use washes of neutral tint , indigo , Vandyke brown and Payne 's grey for the darkest colours , and when bone dry will overlay each grass in turn with a fine brush .
14 For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England .
15 Bertrand Russell complained that he spent his first year at Cambridge looking in vain for the cleverest young men in the world who , he had been assured , were there .
16 she never finished her explanations of formulae because she used to stop halfway through for the cleverest girls to give the answer .
17 That , however , is to ignore the efforts of several bishops over many years to secure some lasting settlement between a wilful king and his resentful subjects ; the lateness of their conversion to deposition — under duress or in despair — is rather to their credit than otherwise ; as for the fiercest episcopal opponents of the king , their experience gave them good grounds for believing that the church 's liberties would be better protected under another king .
18 In Wells 's eyes and day , Saint-Jean was ‘ a lonely frontier town ’ in which , at night , the ‘ deserted streets abound in howling great dogs to whom the belated wayfarer is an occasion for the fiercest demonstrations ’ .
19 But certainly here , for the clearest moment in Eliot 's later plays the savage and the Christian are joined in reproach of the oversophisticated city ; , though it is essential , too , to remember that that city also contains Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly whom Eliot once described as possibly ‘ a god in the machine ’ .
20 In the second half Giannini again created the best moment , first intercepting a pass , then setting up Serena for the clearest chance of the match .
21 Clarke was the luckiest player on earth not to be sent off for the clearest professional foul imaginable on Strachan after 69 minutes .
22 Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years .
23 She hesitated for the merest fraction of a second .
24 The Doctor looked disconcerted for the merest moment .
25 For the merest instant , some final , irreducible unit of desire , he had glimpsed a feeling , an urge within himself he had not imagined himself capable of , but now this tiny , standard piece of information , these few letters , had switched his hopes off like some cheap light bulb .
26 Lucy hesitated for the merest second .
27 Giving awards for the cleanest kitchens and restaurants based on regular inspections .
28 When pasting your template on the piece of veneer selected for the outline — usually a dark wood — try to arrange for the thinnest parts of the design to run along the grain .
29 This , together with an ‘ Elm Shell , covered with 4lb lead , lined , ruffled , and pillow ’ would provide a creature fit for the grandest vault .
30 Wexford kept his face unmoved , but for the faintest flicker of what he hoped looked like sophisticated amusement .
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