Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 2 | The Champ 25SE combines tube and solid state technology to bring you , it maintains , the ultimate in versatility and therefore the best of both the valve and tranny worlds . |
| 3 | George could be the best of friends and terrifyingly the worst of enemies . |
| 4 | We have had a marvellous season with thankfully no major accidents and also the best of racing , particularly at the Ulster Grand Prix and the Tandragee 100 , so perhaps we can be forgiven for forgetting that racing needs not only the top line competitors like Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid it needs the newcomers to help the sport thrive and we are just not getting enough of them . |
| 5 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 6 | Finally we turned back past Haddon Hall , a magnificent mediaeval country house and reputedly the finest of its kind in Britain . |
| 7 | Finally we turned back past Haddon Hall , a magnificent medieval country house and reputedly the finest of its kind in Britain . |
| 8 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 9 | Operated by Thor Chemicals and reputedly the largest of its kind in the world , the Cato Ridge plant reclaims mercury from toxic waste imported from the northern hemisphere . |