Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 2 | Davies , though a useful club cricketer , could hardly be compared with Fry , but he can boast an achievement that eluded arguably the greatest of all-round English sportsmen . |
| 3 | However , nobody has recorded the progress of the likes of Peter M'kata , Eric Majola , Solomon Mhlaba , Gassiem Jabaar , Bomza Nkohla , Salie Fredericks , Ronnie Louw , Cissie Damons , Lenny Mathews or Desmond Kramer , although virtually all of them were players of note , arguably the best of their generation . |
| 4 | Athletico took on the toughest of opposition by playing a Darlington Groundstaff XI . |
| 5 | Today ranked number eight , he was taking on the best of British , Jeremy Bates . |
| 6 | On April 26 , Lisa is to go to the Royal College of Music , in London , to take on the best of British players in the national finals . |
| 7 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 8 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 9 | , Thomas ( 1719–1784 ) , map-maker , engraver , and hydrographer to the king , was born in the parish of St Olave , Southwark , most probably 4 August 1719 , apparently the eldest of several children of Thomas Kitchin , hat dyer , and his wife Mary Birr , whom he married in 1716 . |
| 10 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 11 | The stories of the Last Days , when the Summoner would open up the Dark Reaches of the Spirit Lands and call down the worst of the manitous to lay waste the worlds of the white man and the red . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Perhaps the clearest of all criteria of a true profession is the requirement of some systematic training for entry to it . |
| 14 | For perhaps the best of reasons , parents were reluctant to subject their daughters to even the slightest diminution in their standard of life . |
| 15 | But would the Welsh 1971 side , perhaps the best of all , have achieved it in 1972 , the season that Wales and Scotland did not play in Ireland . |
| 16 | Slater pointed to the Motorola 88110 — not yet formally announced due to some lingering problems — as ‘ perhaps the best of the current crop of microprocessors ’ , adding that it is a shame that it wo n't make an impact because it does n't have the customers . |
| 17 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 18 | Perhaps the warmest of all the New Federal States , Saxony is sprinkled with baroque palaces and castles , including the infamous Colditz . |
| 19 | PHILIP HUNT on perhaps the hardiest of corals . |
| 20 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His name was Andrew Curval and he was an experimental geneticist ; perhaps the greatest of the age . |
| 23 | That is perhaps the weakest of all the indicators on which the Government seek to rely . |
| 24 | Thus postnominal position does go hand in hand with a notion of emphasis , but only of one particular type , which is perhaps the weakest of those that might be considered . |
| 25 | ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , perhaps the finest of the Conversation Poems , is a meditation on Coleridge 's own childhood , and a passionate expression of hope for Hartley 's future . |
| 26 | Meanwhile perhaps the earliest of the inhibitor experiments was made by Wesley Dingman and Michael Sporn , in Rochester , New York , in 1963 . |
| 27 | The question elicited perhaps the broadest of Brook 's smiles . |
| 28 | On the one hand , it can be seen as a discipline , indeed perhaps the oldest of all disciplines , with its own core of sometimes highly technical activities which are peculiar to it , and the normal organizational manifestations of departments , chairs , courses , degrees , and so on . |
| 29 | It was not perhaps the easiest of vacations that Beverley now recalls . |
| 30 | Perhaps the loveliest of upland specialists associated with weirs and mill sites is the grey wagtail — grey in name , but not in appearance , with the flash of his canary-coloured chest . |