Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 2 | But it is not always or necessarily the best advice . |
| 3 | The easiest way to get a component " accepted " is to declare that it has no , or only the simplest , association with the rest of the machine . |
| 4 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 5 | Promotional campaign or not the best advert for any school has to be the children . |
| 6 | And thanks to a smart directory — a custom-designed programme by Richard himself — senders can track down the person they want even if they have only the recipient 's first name , or just the vaguest idea of their title or where they work . |
| 7 | Survey evidence showed that although training is an important and effective way of helping some unemployed people back to work , it is not the only way or always the best way . |
| 8 | In residential or seasonal holiday resorts where guests stay for a week or more the busiest time for the reception office is usually Friday , Saturday or Sunday with the peak period for arrivals and departures being Saturday . |
| 9 | For two decades , the received wisdom in the industry was that IBM products might well not be the most technically advanced or intrinsically the best , but that that did n't matter because IBM was the best marketing organisation in the world . |
| 10 | This problem is greatly exacerbated if , in practice , it is only the majority , or even the largest single minority , within a group that is actually represented . |
| 11 | I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years . |
| 12 | Thus , the writer does not adhere to any particular school of economics and law , neither does he claim that the use of economics is the only , or even the best , way of analyzing the issue under study . |
| 13 | But there is no a priori reason to expect that any one paradigm is perfect or even the best available . |
| 14 | At New Year television and newspapers are concentrating efforts on identifying the most important , or even the looniest events of the past year . |
| 15 | Their homes are often sumptuously hung , not with the finest of eurocentric defined Fine Art , or even the craftiest of Crafts Council defined craft , but with Javanese batik , Indian embroideries , West African Adire , and selected ex-colonial produce . |
| 16 | This is not just a matter of words : one does not become a member of a disciplinary community simply by having access to the latest dictionary or even the fullest encyclopaedia on the subject . |
| 17 | The alternative to keeping quiet about these problems is , of course , to deny their very existence , and the prize for the most successful campaign of VD eradication , or alternatively the rarest piece of dissembling , must go to Communist China which claims to have got rid of syphilis in the ten years after 1950 . |
| 18 | This all-engrossing manoeuvre amuses them , perhaps embarrassment at the ramshackle unkempt porch , or simply the oldest most reliable joke on any guest . |
| 19 | Or how the greatest treasure of all , St Vladimir 's Holy Cross , came to be hidden in a humble farmhouse in the Ukraine . |
| 20 | Existentialism is of course neither the only nor necessarily the best framework in which to locate suffering . |
| 21 | But we saw no reasons to suppose this to be the only , nor necessarily the best form of foundationalism . |
| 22 | He also operated a small fleet of ships , issued the largest and arguably the finest British token coinage , purchased the two-member pocket borough of Great Marlow , for which he was MP from 1790 , and built there Temple House , designed by Samuel Wyatt [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 24 | For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage . |
| 25 | We 're on the edge of what we call a no go area , if we try to sail any closer to the wind the boat will come upright , the sail will flap and we 'll slow down and stop and so the best we can make either side of the no go area is known as a beat . |
| 26 | Thus the intricate relation between the two elements in tragedy is resolved by a synthesis : " Dionysus speaks the language of Apollo and Apollo , finally , the language of Dionysus : and so the highest goal of tragedy and all art is attained " . |
| 27 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 28 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 29 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 30 | 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 . |