Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers . |
| 2 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 3 | Not an enemy at all — but an ally in the greatest , most righteous , yet perhaps also the vilest of plans . |
| 4 | The tank is 7ft long and 4ft wide ; so even the tallest of you should fit nicely ! |
| 5 | Inadequacies of design soon reveal themselves in even the simplest of hand-dug water wells . |
| 6 | Meanwhile perhaps the earliest of the inhibitor experiments was made by Wesley Dingman and Michael Sporn , in Rochester , New York , in 1963 . |
| 7 | It was not perhaps the easiest of vacations that Beverley now recalls . |
| 8 | Fei 's volume was not only the earliest of the series ; it was also the most Malinowskian in style and , most emphatically , by far the most successful . |
| 9 | This Company was not only the largest of the four groups , it was actually the largest railway system with the exception of state systems in the whole world , with a route mileage of 7,790 , ( excluding Irish Lines ) . |
| 10 | Bedford Square is not only the oldest of the Bloomsbury development it is also the only one that remains complete . |
| 11 | " Out now , out , Miss Nicandra , " Twomey turned on her , not surprisingly , for they were not always the best of friends . |
| 12 | Its leadership was corporate , unlike that of most modern churches ; it comprised an equally unusual feature , prophets and teachers in the leadership together- and they are not always the easiest of bedfellows . |
| 13 | Major Bugler was just about the best of these on the level — winning a competitive handicap at Ascot in October . |
| 14 | Just about the best of these over timber , he made a successful debut over fences at Carlisle and further improvement seems likely over today 's longer trip . |
| 15 | Just about the lowest of the low . ’ |
| 16 | Again , contra Lawrence , it is obvious that for Eliot the idea that modern western society should adopt savage customs is seen as ludicrous and reprehensible , since he believed that not even the lowest of civilized people could adapt themselves to such society without deteriorating and frequently also corrupting the natives . |
| 17 | Not even the faintest of breezes here . |
| 18 | No , she decided ; the silence was too deep ; not even the gentlest of movements upstairs could go undetected at Rose Cottage ; not with her floorboards . |
| 19 | It 's not quite the smallest of all the seeds , but nevertheless it 's small enough to make a proverbial point like tall as a house , or small as a mouse , small as a grain of mustard seed . |
| 20 | In the Gaullist world-view , the best of times were always potentially the worst of times . |
| 21 | The project is just one of a number he has in the resort , and he claims the attack of vandalism also just the latest of a growing number . |
| 22 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 23 | From the bifurcation of the two routes , Cool for Cats moves airily up the shallowest of grooves above the semi-rest , with more Stennis jugs for company , to a stopping place beneath a faintly bulging section which bars entry to the more pronounced line on the right flank of the blunt arête . |
| 24 | Here even the best of guide-books fails us . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | SOMETIMES EVEN THE EASIEST OF MOUNTAINS CAN DEFEAT YOU . |
| 27 | Omega Centauri , very much the brightest of them , is the only real exception ( European and North American astronomers always regret that it is so far south ) . |
| 28 | ‘ And is n't that just the worst of all ? ’ he asked with a bitter smile . |
| 29 | Not that even the staunchest of experimental Calvinists could allow the doctrine of assurance or perseverance to make them complacent about their own salvation . |