Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ageism seems to be partly triggered off by a fear of becoming old and dependent , and so a reluctance to identify or even empathise with the oldest people . |
| 2 | Those coaching inns which already existed were frequently refronted or even remodelled in the latest Georgian style . |
| 3 | In a temporal context , the state of modern forestry represents the culmination of woodland resource use that probably began with the earliest hominids . |
| 4 | The Jacksons , the Mullers , the Branwhites , and the Fripps all worked together to create a body of work that now stands among the best of British landscape painting . |
| 5 | He writes and rewrites in long-hand , and endlessly checks for the smallest detail . |
| 6 | So when you holiday in Britain you can wish for good weather and only hope for the best . |
| 7 | No sign of a tent , but over to the left , just showing , was a clump of trees thickly planted and apparently sheltered from the worst of the weather , and , standing up from among them , the chimneys of a house . |
| 8 | Today , nearly 20 years after his death , Jim Clark is still remembered , and generally regarded as the greatest driver of the post-war era . |
| 9 | Amal and its allies had also performed strongly in east Lebanon and Beirut ( with Amal 's former Shia rival Hezbollah winning eight seats in all ) , and thus emerged with the largest bloc of deputies in the new 128-member National Assembly . |
| 10 | This is not an amalgamation for its own sake , it is not an amalgamation to manage a continuing and more comfortable decline , it 's not bolting together two super unions into one mega union and just hoping for the best . |
| 11 | This project involves planning for three methods of travel ; costing each one ; estimating the time for each one ; and finally deciding on the quickest and/or cheapest method of travel . |
| 12 | I do not want to make too big an issue of the large sums of money that are spent on taking LTA committee members and officials around the world , travelling in premium class and always staying in the best hotels , although it would seem that it is considerably more than the amount of money actually spent on transporting the competitors themselves . |
| 13 | This description actually appeared 100 years later , for ‘ Sutton Globe ’ has stood the test of time and still appears in the latest catalogue . |
| 14 | But women clearly found ways of turning a restrictive garment into an alluring fashion : the surviving representations of the stola show it as a revealing slip , cut low between the breasts and often suspended from the slimmest of decorative straps . |
| 15 | He did not ask for mercy ; he did not plead extenuation : he was here , he said , ‘ to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me for what in law is a deliberate crime , and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen ’ . |
| 16 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 17 | Sheets were attached to each end of a beam of wood and then secured to the highest rafter in the roof , which at this stage was still open to the elements . |
| 18 | Tossing it all together in a heap in a pan , and then hoping for the best , would produce another totally inedible meal . |
| 19 | For instance , treatments are listed for such conditions as suppurative pneumonia , cerebral oedema and purulent nephritis , obviously requiring highly skilled veterinary care and sometimes remedies at the highest potencies . |
| 20 | You know , they , they yes , yes they go to the Madechie shops and Athena or whatever and there looking at the best , and you ca n't afford it See Maryann and Richard are given up on erm buying Christmas presents because she says your buying things for people they do n't really want , everybody , therefore I think tokeny things are the best , and that 's what I 've bought this year . |
| 21 | The kitchen was bright and newly furnished with the best of domestic equipment . |
| 22 | However , the Tories and Labour signalled that if either emerged as the largest single party they would put a Queen 's Speech to Parliament and dare the other parties to vote them down — possibly triggering another election as soon as October . |
| 23 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 24 | The sun still threw its dappled mantle and the trees still creaked and resonantly vibrated in the oldest of symphonies . |
| 25 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 26 | Your body fuel makes your engine tick over , and it 's good to know that the majority of the time it is being well and truly fed in the best possible way ! |
| 27 | If you only read , say , the Independent and listen to Radio 4 ( and there are some people who do ) , you would think the entire British nation agreed that the National Health Service was Britain 's finest achievement ; was indeed a sacred trust that should not be tampered with in any way , but merely fed with the choicest morsels of public spending and worshipped . |
| 28 | In this case , the RC time constant of the filter must be long compared with the period of the carrier but short compared with the briefest period involved in the modulation . |
| 29 | Alas , Castle Master , though widely regarded as the best of the Freescape games , suffers from the similar snail-paced somnambulance as its soporific stablemates . |
| 30 | ‘ Might as well go for the best , ’ Roman said , and Claudia wrinkled her nose at him . |