Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Bugler was just about the best of these on the level — winning a competitive handicap at Ascot in October . |
| 2 | We reminisced about Robinson 's batting , which was not exactly the best on the county circuit , but he did have one great moment when he put on 144 for the last wicket with Arnie Sidebottom against Glamorgan at Cardiff . |
| 3 | Sadly , that was not even the last of the clubs to deny me membership . |
| 4 | It was not perhaps the easiest of vacations that Beverley now recalls . |
| 5 | Fei 's volume was not only the earliest of the series ; it was also the most Malinowskian in style and , most emphatically , by far the most successful . |
| 6 | This Company was not only the largest of the four groups , it was actually the largest railway system with the exception of state systems in the whole world , with a route mileage of 7,790 , ( excluding Irish Lines ) . |
| 7 | ‘ When a police sergeant revisited Mr Thompson he was still clearly the worse for drink and was in an agitated state . ’ |
| 8 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 9 | We very quickly realized that the cheapest tender was n't always the cheapest in the medium or long term , t to , but we were n't very quick to realize how to put that right . |
| 10 | I asked Millet , noting how the young man was very much the worse for drink . |
| 11 | But whatever birds were warned off the method of doing it was very much the same in the whole of East Anglia . |