Example sentences of "[adj -est] and the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | International law experts say the first reason is the strongest and the last the weakest . |
| 2 | The youngest and the prettiest are naturally for the exclusive use of the bourgeoisie . |
| 3 | If not , the youngest and the smallest will go hungry and before long die . |
| 4 | She said that ‘ vicious adherence to market forces ’ as a way of reducing the fleet would drive out the youngest and the best . |
| 5 | The point on which I want to concentrate here is that during the last two centuries changes in the law and in employment policies progressively have excluded both the youngest and the oldest generations from the labour market , and therefore from the means to support themselves through earning wages . |
| 6 | He 's about to tackle what must be the longest and the loneliest battle of all — swimming the English channel . |
| 7 | Fred — as the skeleton was later named — was found in May , with the willows by the bank at their greenest and the wild fowl at their most excited . |
| 8 | The interactions between calcium , phosphate , fatty acids , and bile acids in the distal small intestine as well as in the colon were studied in detail in the groups with the lowest and the highest concentrations of dietary calcium and phosphate . |
| 9 | Froissart remarked that ‘ the greatest and the grandest among them sometimes went for six days without tasting bread ’ , and Walsingham observed that ‘ a great part of his army perished of hunger and disease and almost all their horses died ’ . |
| 10 | I had heard my mother 's friends sometimes whispering ruefully of The Change , but I saw the loss of innocence as the greatest and the worst change . |
| 11 | Moreover for a year he shared a stage with one of the greatest and the best-loved English stage actors of the century . |
| 12 | She was the strongest of us all , the wisest and the kindest — she gave hope to the sad and courage to the weak . |
| 13 | A third parameter is allowed and should be used if the target database is DEC Rdb/VMS and the VMS username is not comparable with its UIC. e.g. if the VMS username is RDBITEST and the associated UIC is [ C2168 , RDBITEST ] then this parameter may be left blank . |
| 14 | This multisubunit enzyme resembles the RNA polymerases of eukaryotic cells , and the two largest and the smallest subunits of vaccinia virus have similar amino acid sequences to their cellular counterparts ( 2-4 ) . |
| 15 | At the time of writing this column , we have been told that there are in the Gulf both the largest and the second largest oil slicks in the history of the world . |
| 16 | Hanif was responsible for both the largest and the longest individual innings in first-class history . |
| 17 | The nicest and the nastiest all suffer from it . |
| 18 | So what the parents are doing is they 're rewarding the duckling that runs the furthest and the fastest , to erm , they 're trying to reinforce that behaviour , because what they 're are trying to do , is get the ducklings away from the nest and start looking for , for food for themselves , presumably . |
| 19 | Here , Schmidt achieves the quietest and the loudest sounds from his singers , the recurrent statement of ‘ Credo ’ underpinning the true sense of faith in this movement . |
| 20 | That 's our job , so you have to appreciate that that 's the job of a journalist , to enquire what is the , the worst and the best aspects of any , of any job , of any , of any interview , and so you really have to do it , and in the sense that you have to if you , you probably have to go back to square one and do maximum research on what you 're being asked about , so , therefore you have more confidence in precising down what your answer is . |
| 21 | Constanze , on the other hand was an angel of virtue — the best-hearted and the cleverest . |
| 22 | They would like government to do more for the weakest and the poorest , by direct transfers of income ( witness the rise in child benefit ) as well as by boosting educational standards . |
| 23 | The boldest and the best way to take is directly to the east , because there are some splendid sights to see in the valley of Larrau and beyond . |
| 24 | Ironically , this means that the most exciting objects for play are also the simplest and the cheapest . |
| 25 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 26 | Of the gathered talents on board the Black Ship , a fraction — the brightest and the best — were destined to be recruited as psykers in the service of the Imperium . |
| 27 | His enemies in the Party , who were numbered among the brightest and the best , suggested unkindly that his libido was turbo-assisted , and that he traded in his women after two years . |
| 28 | Her singing at fall of night , especially if we were alone together , soothed and fascinated me , as though it had been divine , at once the mightiest and the softest sound in the world . |
| 29 | Money budgeted was related to extent of training indicated , though there were exceptions to prove the rule at every level of spending , ( except the highest and the lowest ) . |
| 30 | Both the highest and the lowest salaries awarded vary considerably . |