Example sentences of "[adv] by the [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only by the merest chance would a traveller through space happen upon the planet Earth ; a tiny jewel of a place , orbiting an unexceptional star in an ordinary galaxy , but — miracle of miracles — providing precisely those conditions , neither too hot nor too cold , nor too dense nor too sparse , where the astonishingly delicate processes of life can unfold . |
| 2 | The language was comprehensible only by the greatest concentration ; the issues mind-boggling ; the logic of past actions difficult to recollect and harder still to articulate . |
| 3 | The first is that the opponent 's punch need miss only by the smallest amount . |
| 4 | Side by side with the suspicion that Masailand somehow emasculated its administrators , there grew up in East Africa a conviction that the proud Masai could be successfully handled only by the finest type of Englishman , whose qualities of honesty and good judgement they instinctively recognized and respected . |
| 5 | She would rather be slobbered over by the randiest male than be touched in that way by her own sex . |
| 6 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 7 | Not by the slightest word or look did she betray to Miss Miggs that she knew she could n't read . |
| 8 | get everyone out quickly by the safest route . |
| 9 | But this good housekeeping has been swept aside by the latest wave of IRA terrorism aimed at commercial targets on the mainland , one of the repercussions of which has been that , from 1 January this year , landlords and/or tenants have been required to take out a separate insurance policy to cover their buildings against terrorist damage . |
| 10 | Bank managers and accountants tried to depress Finch , but for all the limbo he was in , his spirits were kept up by the strongest curiosity to see what would happen next . |
| 11 | To the south-west , owners of beach holiday homes are trying to claim new beach thrown up by the latest sea defence scheme and to prevent non-owners from walking along the top of the beach . |
| 12 | Mr Ashdown , buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results , has been touring both constituencies . |
| 13 | It placed me in power eighteen months ago by the largest majority accorded to any party for many , many years . |
| 14 | Students ' personal autonomy can not be guaranteed even by the best curriculum in the world . |
| 15 | Today we are ‘ fanatics ’ , ‘ extremists ’ , or — the most frequently used verbal bomb , the one favoured even by the highest ranking public health official in the United States , Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan — ‘ terrorists ’ . |
| 16 | Whatever their character , there is one curious feature shared by most private press books , which is that they are very rarely read — a fact testified to by the fact that an extraordinary number are found unopened , as though their charm and beauty may not be defiled even by the gentlest slitting of the sacred sections at the top and fore-edges . |
| 17 | Until 1290 the king taxed his subjects on only two occasions , one of those , in 1283 , through the agency of separate assemblies for his northern subjects ( clerical and lay ) at York and for his southern subjects at Northampton , neither a parliament even by the loosest definition . |
| 18 | Two victories in eight matches can not be construed as a success , even by the wildest stretch of the imagination , but there was some good news as well . |
| 19 | Fortunately , the house is strongly built , and is not damaged even by the worst winter storms . |
| 20 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 21 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 22 | So it 's basically if they finish on the level points goal difference shall determine the final positions followed by the highest number of goals scored and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 23 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |