Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj -est] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 2 | Not an enemy at all — but an ally in the greatest , most righteous , yet perhaps also the vilest of plans . |
| 3 | It was not perhaps the easiest of vacations that Beverley now recalls . |
| 4 | " Out now , out , Miss Nicandra , " Twomey turned on her , not surprisingly , for they were not always the best of friends . |
| 5 | Its leadership was corporate , unlike that of most modern churches ; it comprised an equally unusual feature , prophets and teachers in the leadership together- and they are not always the easiest of bedfellows . |
| 6 | Not even the faintest of breezes here . |
| 7 | No , she decided ; the silence was too deep ; not even the gentlest of movements upstairs could go undetected at Rose Cottage ; not with her floorboards . |
| 8 | In the Gaullist world-view , the best of times were always potentially the worst of times . |
| 9 | From the bifurcation of the two routes , Cool for Cats moves airily up the shallowest of grooves above the semi-rest , with more Stennis jugs for company , to a stopping place beneath a faintly bulging section which bars entry to the more pronounced line on the right flank of the blunt arête . |
| 10 | Here even the best of guide-books fails us . |
| 11 | SOMETIMES EVEN THE EASIEST OF MOUNTAINS CAN DEFEAT YOU . |