Example sentences of "[adv] of the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Republic of Ireland , the withdrawn of the pound sterling from the ERM had perhaps of the greatest impact . |
| 2 | Referring the problem back does not allow the counsellor to fall into a trap , for most people will normally do what they want to do , regardless of the best-intentioned advice . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're doing to small-time corruption what the multinational corporations are doing to small-time business , ’ a cynical Sardinian friend had once remarked apropos of the latest initiative to dean up the police . |
| 4 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 5 | Now comes to the Embalmer the realisation that his work is not only of the greatest importance to his client ; to public health in the prevention of infection , but also to create a real attitude towards the job amongst his fellow workers that will mark his particular Funeral Service out from its competitors in the service it renders . |
| 6 | Its aim is , through the getting together of the highest quality of thinking and perception , to become an unstoppably persuasive force to others in alliance . |
| 7 | The Christian religion was naturally of the greatest importance — the Master was in Holy Orders — but the Latin Vulgate had been replaced by the English of King James 's Bible . |
| 8 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
| 9 | They were surprised by the intensity of the response , their rhythm suffered and their perception of the space-time rapport is not of the highest calibre . |
| 10 | But of course no one wants to buy a product if it is not of the highest quality and this is where the Potato Marketing Board can help . |
| 11 | The UK 's relative lack of success in exploiting innovative technology is not , therefore , because the country 's engineers and scientists lack good innovative ideas or that its R&D is not of the highest quality . |
| 12 | Also , the engines originally ran on ‘ Pool ’ petrol which was not of the best quality . |
| 13 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 14 | For one of so gentle a character he could be extraordinarily defiant of gamekeepers , and threatening letters to my father passed on to him with added threats were not of the slightest avail . |
| 15 | ‘ In mild cloudy weather the vapour on the mountains sometimes travels horizontally , by which their summits are hid from the eye of the anxious spectator , but when ascending or descending mists shall roll upon the surface of gigantic nature , when some castle-like rock alternately of the deepest air tint and most celestial light , shall seem as hung in clouds , the powers of the pencil are frequently suspended , and the mind employed in comparing the greatness of nature with the littleness of art . ’ |
| 16 | Fourthly , there is the satisfaction of a kind of orthodoxy , perhaps with respect to what is taken as somehow of the greatest significance or fundamentality . |
| 17 | Mental symptoms arising in this way are generally of the greatest importance when selecting the most similar remedy . |
| 18 | His collection of drawings was also very fine and sheets with a provenance from his collection are usually of the highest calibre , both in quality and in the state of preservation . |
| 19 | Edvard Munch , whom many art historians would describe as one of the greatest print-makers of the century , fails to qualify as ‘ blue-chip ’ , despite occasional high prices at auction , because he often used poor quality paper and the impressions are not always of the best quality . |
| 20 | The men who come to the colonies from France are not always of the best quality . |
| 21 | The wartime Hallé ensemble and intonation are not always of the purest quality , and despite excellent remastering , the mono sound of Baxi 's Third Symphony was never exactly ingratiating , although an amazing amount of detail does register — not least the gleaming anvil stroke in the first movement . |
| 22 | Guided by his longtime athletics coach Jim Burns , Mullin 's physical preparation was always of the highest quality . |
| 23 | Once of the easiest ways of doing this is to use semi-rigid cavity wall batts — the insulating slabs fitted in the cavities of newly-built houses . |
| 24 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 25 | This would be the time also of the fullest differentiation and autonomization of cultural facts . |
| 26 | The great strength of the British , its mental agility , was the drive behind the building up of the greatest Empire the world has known . |
| 27 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |
| 28 | The Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) legislation of 1980 ( ‘ Superfund ’ ) requires the cleaning up of the worst landfill sites , of which some 800 had been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency by 1986 ( Foresman 1986 ) . |
| 29 | The train will be the Ffestiniog 's Vintage Train , made up of the oldest vehicles on the railway , some dating back to the 1860's . |
| 30 | The safety recommendations again at the end of the official AIB report reflect this longer term view and , bearing in mind the fact that modern large public transport aircraft are now being used for fifteen or twenty years before they are discarded , the implementation of these recommendations is clearly of the highest importance . |