Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 2 | A salmon is slippery enough to handle at the best of times , but one of this size … . |
| 3 | That 's real adventure — bright enough to shine through the densest of Scottish mists . |
| 4 | To start negotiations having to rely on the generosity of the other party is not to start in the strongest of positions ! |
| 5 | Right to buy for the old to be extended |
| 6 | Taking her cue from him , Fabia realised then that perhaps barely to step over his threshold and then at once to launch into the dozens of questions she must ask him was perhaps , in this gracious room , rather graceless . |
| 7 | Even at the faster rate , it would take over 1300 years simply to count to the smallest of the above numbers . |
| 8 | The eastern states say they badly need an extra 4,500 judges , 1,000 state prosecutors and 1,300 lawyers — not least to deal with the hundreds of thousands of property claims flooding in from the west . |