Example sentences of "[adv] of the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noverre called his fourth group character dancers , that is those whose physique and movements were not necessarily of the finest but whose abilities when playing some comic or dramatic role such as a Cyclops or Fury were most valuable . |
| 2 | In the Republic of Ireland , the withdrawn of the pound sterling from the ERM had perhaps of the greatest impact . |
| 3 | The allies should not welcome this , though the argument for fighting on regardless of the latest Soviet efforts at peacemaking was neither bloodthirsty nor trivial . |
| 4 | Referring the problem back does not allow the counsellor to fall into a trap , for most people will normally do what they want to do , regardless of the best-intentioned advice . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police . |
| 6 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 7 | Now comes to the Embalmer the realisation that his work is not only of the greatest importance to his client ; to public health in the prevention of infection , but also to create a real attitude towards the job amongst his fellow workers that will mark his particular Funeral Service out from its competitors in the service it renders . |
| 8 | A few days later , ash from the same eruption had reached Rio de Janeiro , 2,960 kilometres away , but here the fall was very scanty indeed — not thick enough to form a measurable deposit — and consisted only of the finest , dust-like particles . |
| 9 | In this context , the youngster must come to terms with his or her changing and changed body ; must try out the precepts , attitudes and ideals of childhood against the demands of the transitional and later groups among which existence now lies ; must establish himself or herself as an individual with rights and responsibilities and with a unique and largely self-determinant personality ; and must cope with feelings and impulses which have previously been only of the vaguest and most unformulable nature . |
| 10 | Its aim is , through the getting together of the highest quality of thinking and perception , to become an unstoppably persuasive force to others in alliance . |
| 11 | The Christian religion was naturally of the greatest importance — the Master was in Holy Orders — but the Latin Vulgate had been replaced by the English of King James 's Bible . |
| 12 | And Mala had put on a figure-hugging neck-to-ankle suit of Luxipelt , which together with a whiskered and eared mask made her look like on of the slinkiest , most enticing Clovellyan felinoids I 'd ever seen . |
| 13 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
| 14 | The fact that the church was not of the highest architectural quality eased some of the problems that could have been associated with its conversion into flats . |
| 15 | A similar criticism could have been made against many of Jesus 's parables and sermons and some of his listeners were certainly not of the highest social class . |
| 16 | They were surprised by the intensity of the response , their rhythm suffered and their perception of the space-time rapport is not of the highest calibre . |
| 17 | But of course no one wants to buy a product if it is not of the highest quality and this is where the Potato Marketing Board can help . |
| 18 | On the whole , if we choose this sort of writing , we will be acknowledging that our aim is not of the highest . |
| 19 | The UK 's relative lack of success in exploiting innovative technology is not , therefore , because the country 's engineers and scientists lack good innovative ideas or that its R&D is not of the highest quality . |
| 20 | Also , the engines originally ran on ‘ Pool ’ petrol which was not of the best quality . |
| 21 | We were told that the Tia Juana bullfights were ‘ not of the best ’ and this we were quite willing to believe . |
| 22 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 23 | Her own health by that time was not of the best and she latterly resided in Dalnair House , Croftamie , where she was well cared for . |
| 24 | He walked with a teeter , as though he was in the middle of falling on his nose , and brandished a glass lens on a stick as a warning to those in his way that his eyesight was not of the best . |
| 25 | It 's about a professional company , theatrical company , not of the best , who is embarking on a tour of Weston-Super-Mare , Goole and Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 26 | For one of so gentle a character he could be extraordinarily defiant of gamekeepers , and threatening letters to my father passed on to him with added threats were not of the slightest avail . |
| 27 | ‘ I have to admit , ’ he began , speaking quite slowly , ‘ that my early years at secondary school were not of the happiest . |
| 28 | The malai junior commanders in the field were not of the smartest . |
| 29 | ‘ In mild cloudy weather the vapour on the mountains sometimes travels horizontally , by which their summits are hid from the eye of the anxious spectator , but when ascending or descending mists shall roll upon the surface of gigantic nature , when some castle-like rock alternately of the deepest air tint and most celestial light , shall seem as hung in clouds , the powers of the pencil are frequently suspended , and the mind employed in comparing the greatness of nature with the littleness of art . ’ |
| 30 | Fourthly , there is the satisfaction of a kind of orthodoxy , perhaps with respect to what is taken as somehow of the greatest significance or fundamentality . |