Example sentences of "[coord] by the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 2 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 3 | His death in the summer of 1990 deprived the church of the service of one whose whole life was characterised by a willingness to help others , by an integrity of character universally acknowledged and by the greatest generosity and kindness . |
| 4 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 5 | This stance was rejected by extremist elements in the military , and by the richest and most right-wing families who had been the most fervent supporters of the coup . |
| 6 | In the end , Kennedy won , but by the narrowest of margins : a popular majority of 118 550 of the 68 million votes cast . |
| 7 | ‘ If he really had a divine mission , ran the objection , he would not be surrounded by this rag-tag band , but by the best and the brightest . … |