Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj -est] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAVING the punchline till last , just about the best joke of a pretty unfunny decade comes in its dying days . |
| 2 | SAVING the punchline till last , just about the best joke of a pretty unfunny decade comes in its dying days . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyone who 's prepared to use a child as a pawn just to score points in some personal vendetta has to be just about the lowest form of life . |
| 4 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 5 | This 6.30 a.m. walk to breakfast was just about the worst part of the day , when my morale was low and thoughts of home rose painfully . |
| 6 | Felt or glass-fibre wrap is still probably the best type of insulation for valves and compression fittings where preformed insulation wo n't fit . |
| 7 | Now that 's no way no way to run the railway I was gon na say but that 's probably probably not the best choice of words in the present circumstances . |
| 8 | ( And giving your hair more body is probably also the best way of looking healthier and younger , short of a facelift ! ) |
| 9 | Vehicle exhausts are also probably the biggest producers of man-made carbon monoxide , which destroys hydroxyl , an atmospheric ‘ cleansing agent ’ which gets rid of methane , another greenhouse gas . |
| 10 | Strangely enough the best stress-buster of all has been around for thousands of years : massage . |
| 11 | and dashed out and fitted it , complete waste of bloody time mind you cos er we 've got the own software back in now , well actually the latest releases of it , we were going back a release because er we were having trouble , but it turns out it 's not our problem external problem so , put three dot seven back in . |
| 12 | If PURGE-TASKS is set to ALL then only the latest version of a module will continue to follow its defined process model . |
| 13 | Mike Hawthorn had become Britain 's first World Champion in 1958 but the great British monopoly of the World Championship started in 1962 when Graham Hill won the first of his two titles , but then perhaps the greatest driver of the modern era , Jim Clark , won the first of his two titles in 1963 . |
| 14 | Moreover the ideal geographical balance gives one almost automatically the best chance of picking up tomorrow 's trends early . |
| 15 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 16 | Most holidaymakers still opt for travellers ' cheques which are no longer the cheapest means of funding trips abroad . |
| 17 | The Guildford Week is pleasantly filmed , and yet somehow the loveliest shot of all is The Oval in pristine snow . |
| 18 | Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more . |