Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj -est] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bayonet , perhaps the greatest contribution to warfare made by the seventeenth century , was well established almost everywhere in Europe by the beginning of this period . |
| 2 | This is much the sternest test to date of trainer Andy Turnell 's confidence that Country Member is a top staying handicapper in the making . |
| 3 | First and last he sought only the strictest fidelity to justice , rectitude and truth . |
| 4 | Is that not the best discouragement to crime and an encouragement to those elderly people who fear being attacked on the streets ? |
| 5 | An armchair by the fire in winter may be the ideal spot for reading a novel : however , it 's not the best place to structure or write an essay on " Newtonian thermodynamics ' or " Political and philosophical influences on the novels of Jane Austen " . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not the worst place to work , by any means , ’ said the woman . |
| 7 | ‘ What on earth do you mean ? ’ asked her mother aggressively , picking up the nearest dress to hand . |
| 8 | It is also the biggest venue to date , with more than 150,000 square feet of space . |
| 9 | The clinician/management issue is probably the greatest challenge to management developers — and others , of course — in the 1990s . |
| 10 | Such grungeplay is probably the strongest link to Velocity Girl 's new deal with Sub Pop : other than that , they hardly fit the Bud-swilling , neck-thrusting bill , and the world is probably a better place for it . |
| 11 | The path of ‘ best interests ’ is ironically the swiftest way to library censorship . |
| 12 | And because their partners are seen as naturally more ambitious and less compromising than themselves , the women then go on to describe themselves as lucky and ‘ grateful ’ if their partners make even the smallest contribution to household affairs . |