Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that the Bangor girl had timed her late surge to perfection , but Martin held on for the closest of wins . |
| 2 | The men who obey their party 's call in the House of Lords do so for the highest of motives . |
| 3 | Her poor academic record was traded in for the sharpest of wits , her gaucherie for poise . |
| 4 | Alistair , Wendy and Anna come in for the worst of it . |
| 5 | It was only with the greatest of difficulty that the League could be persuaded to do its job in Danzig . |
| 6 | And all apparently with the greatest of ease . |
| 7 | The man holding Connelly 's arm pushed it forward , forcing it down onto the largest of the electric rings , holding it there . |
| 8 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 9 | So with the greatest of pleasure . |
| 10 | ‘ You are all the same , ’ I had said — reducing her from an individual to a stereotype , lumping her in with the worst of the cherry berets . |
| 11 | sing along with the best of them . |
| 12 | The international exhibition of Chinese art held at Burlington House in 1935–6 , of which David was the chief instigator and director , fulfilled his ambition of showing items from the Chinese imperial collection together with the best of western collections . |
| 13 | Nay , almost encouraged , so it seemed yet apparently within the strictest of chivalric constraints … |
| 14 | Medical know-how means that people are living longer anyway , though not necessarily in the best of health . |
| 15 | The question is whether he is in addition permitted to say that , although he was aware that he was causing difficulties , he was doing so from the best of intentions . |
| 16 | An hour or so in the best of company , the bar is open , and all for £3 — what more can we do ? |
| 17 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 18 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 19 | While murmurs of hope return to the streets of Cardiff , Australian prepare for their 16th international against Wales with coach Bob Dwyer admits : ‘ A win here would go down alongside the best of our achievements while I have been in charge . ’ |
| 20 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 21 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 22 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 23 | Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely . |
| 24 | There is another strand to the Economic theory of regulation , which is that once the agency has an objective , those charged with carrying out the policies do so to the best of their ability . |
| 25 | The three men , talking earnestly , walked together to the largest of the huts and disappeared inside . |
| 26 | And then a dim light opened out ahead : their boots crunched on pebbles and they emerged from a small cave whose entrance was uncovered only at the lowest of low tides . |
| 27 | Stake-outs were bad enough at the best of times , but when the elements were hostile , the hours of silent watching could seem like weeks . |
| 28 | Quite hidden from the solitary road around the perimeter , the A.832 , the interior can be reached only on foot and the mountains climbed only by the toughest of adventurers . |
| 29 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 30 | As a young man he was cursed with a dreadful stammer , and to help combat it he became a club singer , not easy under the best of circumstances . |