Example sentences of "[coord] perhaps the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 2 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 3 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 4 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 5 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 6 | Thomas Bewick of Newcastle was the pioneer and perhaps the greatest exponent of this art ; his History of British Birds of 1797–1804 was a splendid example of what could be done , although his text was of no scientific significance . |
| 7 | Now internationally recognized as a result of The Age of Unreason , a book that encapsulates most of his thinking on the future of work and organisations — for example , the concepts of ‘ portfolio ’ work for the over-50s , the ‘ shamrock ’ company with a small permanent core and contracted-out services — Handy is Britain 's only world-class guru and perhaps the closest thinker to Drucker in his range of predictive ideas on society . |
| 8 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 9 | Makassar Oil ( a particularly noxious distillation from coconuts ) was a popular hair cosmetic for Victorian men , and perhaps the greasiest of " greasy kids ' stuff " ever to have caught on . |
| 10 | And perhaps the best place is the dining room . |
| 11 | Much research which contributes useful information to sociology is carried out by non-sociologists , and perhaps the best example of this is the decennial census of population without which British sociology would be hard pressed for much data about our society . |
| 12 | But the results are strongly contrasted. and perhaps the best way for the critic — as for the listener — is not to stretch comparisons , but to take each piece on its own , very different merits . |
| 13 | The first , and perhaps the simplest , was that the formation of within-stimulus associations might interfere with the acquisition of subsequent associations involving these stimulus elements ( and , I must now add , might interfere with the ability of subsequently formed associations to influence behaviour ) . |
| 14 | And perhaps the biggest draw back we 've got at the moment that to ge , become a chartered engi engineer you 've got ta have a degree ! |
| 15 | And perhaps the biggest threat of all from television will emerge when America hosts the next World Cup . |
| 16 | The nomads are the poorest people in the world and perhaps the richest spiritually . |
| 17 | Another , and perhaps the worst aspect is that the wind has the habit of blowing debris into the net so that it becomes entangled and this too limits its catching ability . |
| 18 | Extrinsic luminescence centres are the best known , and perhaps the easiest to detect by geochemical analysis , whereas the causes of intrinsic CL require detailed crystallographic and solid state physical investigation . |
| 19 | But perhaps the best tag for him is ‘ hippy ’ , in so far as that term has become , for post-punk critic and consumer alike , a cipher for pretension , over-inflation and over-reach . |
| 20 | This criticism not easy to meet but perhaps the best argument available comes from the experiment described last . |
| 21 | But perhaps the best measure of Paul 's ability was that , although he never sought publicity or acclaim , he was voted Palace 's Player of Year for two consecutive seasons , both of which were spent in Division One , in 1979–80 and 1980–81 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls . |
| 23 | But perhaps the best example of Picks System 's idiosyncratic development style is happening in the MD-DOS world , where the company is beta-testing multi-user Pick for MD-DOS — to be released later this year . |
| 24 | But perhaps the fastest rate of change , has been achieved in printer technology . |
| 25 | But perhaps the grandest shopping to be had in the area is at the Victoria Quarter . |
| 26 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 27 | But perhaps the greatest satisfaction is the knowledge that you have created something of the beauty that is going to be there for many years . |
| 28 | The well-established agricultural divisions of the county were reinforced by medieval practices , but perhaps the greatest contribution to Sussex life was the extension of settlement much deeper into the Weald , the piecemeal annual clearings going much farther than before . |
| 29 | But perhaps the greatest source of its downfall was the fact that there was no evidence that it was . |
| 30 | ‘ My mother and Tatyana Kessner were my early teachers but perhaps the greatest influence was Lev Naumov , a man with a truly wonderful sense of musical fantasy and imagination . |