Example sentences of "[adj -est] [coord] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the longest and thickest of the ordinary body hairs and serve to protect the underfur from the outside elements , keeping it dry and snug . |
| 2 | ( 1630–1714 ) , princess of the Palatinate and mother of George I , was born 14 October 1630 in The Hague , the youngest of five daughters and the youngest but one of the thirteen children of Frederick V ( 1596–1632 ) , elector Palatine ( 1610–32 ) and the ‘ winter king ’ of Bohemia ( 1619–21 ) , and his wife Elizabeth ( 1596–1622 ) , the daughter of James I. Born in exile , because of Frederick 's expulsion from Bohemia and the Palatinate , Sophia 's importance in history was derived from her parentage and from the unpredictable fate of the Stuarts . |
| 3 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 4 | The Everqueen was dead , the Phoenix King was lost , and Dragon Prince Caledor was imprisoned forever on the Isle of the Dead with the greatest and wisest of the High Mages . |
| 5 | Many of these are also members of the American Psychological Association , s ( APA 's ) Psychology of Women Division , the largest and one of the fastest-growing divisions , which has 2000 members , almost all female . |
| 6 | If Mrs Curdle 's abode was the smallest on Thrush Green , then the Youngs ' house was certainly the largest and one of the oldest . |
| 7 | The largest and palest of the wild Streptopelia doves , stock-dove-size , with generally rather dull ash-brown plumage , readily distinguished from Turtle Dove by blackish wing-tips , black base to white underside of tail , and black half-collars . |
| 8 | The only goose with an all-black head , and smallest and darkest of the three wholly black-necked geese , no bigger than a drake Mallard ( p. 53 ) . |
| 9 | Crime is one of the fastest-growing and one of the few recession-proof industries . |
| 10 | The rarest and one of the largest of the breeding vultures of the region , an all-brown typical broad-winged vulture , readily distinguished at close range by massive bill and bare red skin on head and throat . |
| 11 | I 'd say twelve at the earliest and three at the latest . ’ |
| 12 | Their contemplative order is one of the most enclosed , strictest and silent of the Roman Catholic Monastic Orders . |
| 13 | Priene was built on Milesian plan ; it is probably the best and one of the oldest of such grid plans amongst Hellenistic cities . |
| 14 | Until the middle of the nineteenth century , the Highland Scots were the tallest and heaviest of the European peoples . |
| 15 | The clients chose the dullest and safest of the half dozen submitted , as was their wont . |
| 16 | Nearly 20 per cent of the bottom third and about 10 per cent of the top chose July on each occasion , possibly because it is both one of the two hottest and one of the two sunniest months . |