Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] [adj -est] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 2 | Neither country has more than the sketchiest experience of democracy . |
| 3 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 4 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 5 | So it had been quite refreshing when Luke had said goodbye with no more than the lightest brush of his lips against her cheek . |
| 6 | If so , the timber structure need have been little more than the simplest type of tailor 's dummy . |
| 7 | The parish church , older than the oldest part of the house , with its attendant Rectory , squatted a quarter of a mile away on the edge of the estate , joined to the village by a delta of ancient footpaths which successive generations of Dersinghams had been unable to close . |
| 8 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 9 | Two of the patients with idiopathic DU had , however , serum pepsinogen I values that were more than 50% higher than the highest value of all the other groups studied ( Table 2 ) . |
| 10 | With the benefit of the latest steam-XXXX turbines , the new plant is planned to achieve thermal efficiency of 52 per cent — a 20 per cent increase over that of normal coal power stations , and 12 per cent higher than the best performance of nuclear plants . |
| 11 | If therefore , the well-being of a state consists in the mature well-being of the people , a country is then most flourishing when the largest proportion of its population is able to satisfy these two natural desires . |
| 12 | the file generation number will be one greater than the highest generation of any file with the same name and extension as the outcoming binary file , held in the user 's account . |
| 13 | Three bullet-ridden bodies were found in Karachi yesterday , bringing the death toll to seven since the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in Pakistan began on Wednesday . |