Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj -est] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |
| 2 | It 's not the best of the campaigns but it sets the parameters , ’ he says.The message from the ‘ Mouth ’ is far more strident and inspiring . |
| 3 | However , Mazzin was not the calmest of the guards and might easily panic and shoot us . |
| 4 | Mr Manning said the crime was not the worst in the courts ' calendar . |
| 5 | My detector helped me to cream off the best of the finds , but I hope that fact will not deter you from carrying out your own investigations along the 499 remaining routes , if you can obtain a copy of the book . |
| 6 | ‘ You look quite strong , ’ she said , picking up the largest of the suitcases and dragging it up the stairs . |
| 7 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 8 | The counsel given was probably the best in the circumstances , which was that I should go abroad for a break . |
| 9 | Yes well if we take for example er probably the largest of the packages which we have priced converted to a fixed price basis so far which was package number three , er the tooling for the development aircraft and roll equipment which is erm er forty eight million pounds , that was priced in August nineteen ninety two when eighty percent of that work had been done . |
| 10 | But Connacht , traditionally the weakest of the provinces , had a disastrous start , losing heavily to Glasgow and District and also to the humble Scottish North-Midlands , whose victory was their first for seven years . |
| 11 | I pull out the largest of the knives , then turn and leave the kitchen , heading down the corridor past the dining room and the study to the stairs . |
| 12 | It seems to me that very few staff are addressing themselves to the kinds of things ( e.g. resources , teaching style , subject content , and attitudes and the hidden curriculum ) that can be used to bring out the best of the pupils ' cultures and backgrounds . |
| 13 | heads of each participating school and will undoubtedly bring out the best in the youngsters , stimulating the competitive instincts in a way that perhaps has n't been available to schoolchildren in the past . |
| 14 | The champagne atmosphere brought out the best in the Australians . |
| 15 | Lesley rummaged in the depths of her calf handbag for a matching key-case as they crossed at the lights , and flicked out the smallest of the keys on the bunch it contained ‘ You wo n't mind waiting a minute for me ? |
| 16 | By far the smallest of the utilities is Timekeeper which needs just 13K . |
| 17 | About half of the loans were planned for Russia , by far the biggest of the republics . |
| 18 | Even the lowest of the qualifiers still had something to play for . |
| 19 | What would happen if he took the glass from her hand and kissed her parted lips Harry glimpsed in that instant , prefigured in the alluring darkness of her dress , darker , it seemed , than even the deepest of the shadows around them . |
| 20 | Even the hardest of the men there was sobered by her outburst . |
| 21 | Even the biggest of the supermodels accepts that her shelf-life is limited and that , sooner rather than later , it will be time to step away from the catwalk . |
| 22 | Although her candidacy was dismissed in most quarters as irrelevant , she was potentially the best-funded of the candidates ( although much of her wealth was believed to be inaccessible in frozen Swiss bank accounts ) and had the advantage of the remnants of her husband 's huge patronage network . |
| 23 | And then the largest of the Oaks moved forward and Tealtaoich saw that he had the high , domed forehead of a scholar and a thinker and that his ancient eyes held wisdom and knowledge . |
| 24 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 25 | That is why the smallest of the herbivores , Thomson 's gazelle , lives on fruit , which is very nutritious but too thin on the ground to support a larger animal . |
| 26 | ‘ And certainly the biggest in the careers of any of our players . |