Example sentences of "[adv] in the most [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not so , except perhaps in the most formal of speaking styles , where a sentence may fall to a low point in the voice and be followed by a substantial silence , and we know that it has come to an end . |
| 2 | That said , the whole area of interactive video — if that is indeed where your proposal lies — is so far from being a developed market that we are looking at it only in the most tentative of ways . |
| 3 | Conformity was required only in the most general of senses . |
| 4 | ‘ I may be going deaf and it 's true I 'm not in the most robust of health but I 'm not daft . ’ |
| 5 | He had been tending , of late , to think a lot about this girl , not always in the most correct of contexts , as lusty young men will . |
| 6 | Gorbachev described this vision at the April 1985 plenum , hardly in the most memorable of terms , as a ‘ qualitatively new state [ sostoyanie ] of society ’ . |
| 7 | God pops up in the most surprising of places . |
| 8 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 9 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 10 | Social services bring other partially sighted people to his nursery to show how life can be fulfilling for blind people even in the most visual of surroundings . |
| 11 | Quantification , of a kind , can be found in every type of writing about the world , while qualitative work is still central even in the most mathematised of sciences . |
| 12 | What goes on inside the family , even in the most private of all relations between human beings , has effects outside the family . |
| 13 | It can operate even in the most restrictive of environments , because the strength of the light that is within can dissolve normal barriers and resistance . |
| 14 | Deaf and dumb people were bitterly disappointed , and the BDDA 's reaction is summed up in its annual report for the year 1932 : No aid from the State was considered even in the most pressing of all problems , the vocational training of school leavers . |
| 15 | Physical decay is setting in at 38 for Duran and 33 for Leonard , yet in the most hazardous of sports they persist , in the fashion of the times , in trying to defy the ageing process . |