Example sentences of "and [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are the cutest and funniest cat ! |
| 2 | This decline in the proportion living in privately rented accommodation also resulted in an improvement in the living conditions of the poorest section of the community — though it made the housing situation of some groups even more difficult as the pool of the cheapest and poorest accommodation shrank . |
| 3 | In this connection it is perhaps significant that the boundary between the parish and Snodland was the old track or Ridgeway , now largely destroyed by chalk quarries , which , keeping to the highest and driest line over the downs is thought to have formed the main east-west route at this period , crossing the River Medway at Holborough as Mr Margery suggested . |
| 4 | You called the half-mortals out of Andernesse , and broke the spell-wall which was the last and greatest protection against the dark . |
| 5 | This is the first and greatest commandment . |
| 6 | Return to the castle and its second courtyard , then walk through into the final and greatest courtyard , past the limestone blocks of the Romanesque White Tower . |
| 7 | Who knows China 's deepest and greatest secret ? |
| 8 | Herland 's last and greatest work , the new roof of hammer-beam construction for Westminster Hall , started in January 1394 and continued until shortly after 1400 : Master Hugh was both master carpenter and controller . |
| 9 | It also rests on their shared view of Parliament as ‘ the highest and greatest court over which none other can have jurisdiction in the kingdom ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ This , ’ the proctor had concluded , ‘ will be the Emperor 's legacy and greatest achievement . |
| 11 | The nautiloids achieved their widest range of adaptations and greatest variety of form in the Ordovician and Silurian periods , with various coiled forms , straight , pipe-like forms , and curious dumpy species with restricted apertures that may have adopted a sluggish ( possible filter-feeding ) mode of life . |
| 12 | The last and greatest battle of the Ruhr was fought in the skies over Germany in the last three months of 1944 , and on some nights there were still 5% losses of aircraft , not to mention men . |
| 13 | Yet , ingratiating and inventive in equal measure , they thrived to form the longest and greatest tradition of British art . |
| 14 | Nietzsche is Megill 's first and greatest example of the ‘ artist-philosopher ’ , who has been followed by other ‘ prophets of extremity ’ . |
| 15 | That , more or less , is how the First Spiritualist Church experienced its last and greatest schism . |
| 16 | Sufficient surplus should be left at the top to allow an anchorage with stones or paving slabs and , when an irregular-shaped pool is envisaged , then calculations should be based upon a rectangle which encloses the greatest width and greatest length of the excavation . |
| 17 | The increased use of gas to produce elect electricity will result in faster exhaustion of our resources while the subsequent closure of the mines will deny us access to hundreds of years of our richest and greatest energy reserves . |
| 18 | • Our Christmas gift guide with latest and greatest fishkeeping equipment — and this year a special twist — our expert panel votes for their Christmas gift of the year . |
| 19 | Jessie was John 's youngest and sweetest child . |
| 20 | The 1989–90 Whitbread was 33,000 miles long , the world 's longest and toughest yacht race ever to take place . |
| 21 | She carried into the democratic era , not only the institutions , but the social habits and mentality of the oldest and toughest plutocracy in the world . |
| 22 | We have one of the newest and finest championship courses in the land , developed on 250 acres . |
| 23 | University College , London , possesses one of the oldest and finest art collections among British universities . |
| 24 | The Barton Farm Orpheus , because of its association with the sealed coin of Allectus ( Powell 1919 , 71 ; T.B.G.A.S. LXX ( 1951 ) , 51-4 ) was the pivot of the sequence ; while the great pavement from Woodchester was the latest and finest mosaic of the group . |
| 25 | It was enhanced both by fusion of the School with the teachers ' personal circle and by the remarkable resource of Morris 's last and finest garden . |
| 26 | The possessor of what is unquestionably the world 's largest and finest collection of contemporary art , Saatchi has sold before — but never , according to the rumours , on anything like this scale . |
| 27 | Todedo 's 168 pieces of Roman mould-blown glass , dating from the first to sixth centuries AD , constitute the world 's largest and finest collection of examples of this technique . |
| 28 | The MFA 's 25,000 Nubian objects , dating from 6000 B.C. to 350 A.D. , form the world 's largest and finest collection outside Africa . |
| 29 | In 1724 Daniel Defoe described it as ‘ perhaps the largest , longest and finest street for buildings and number of inhabitants , not in Britain only , but in the world ’ . |
| 30 | The Rolls Royce Silverlady — the emblem of arguably the world 's most famous and finest car . |