Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davies , though a useful club cricketer , could hardly be compared with Fry , but he can boast an achievement that eluded arguably the greatest of all-round English sportsmen . |
| 2 | Having lost their captain , Zbigniew Boniek , arguably the greatest of Polish footballers , to Juventus , Widzew saw Dziekanowski as a replacement and so , at 21 , ‘ Jacki ’ was transferred in 1984 for 21m zlotys , a record between Polish clubs , amounting at that time to some £200,000 . |
| 3 | Populism , however , is rarely the worse for sceptical assessment : particularly when it is equated with justice . |
| 4 | ( v ) National claims summarize complex economic and social interests and classes , a coalition that is rarely the same in different times and places ; so ‘ nationalism , does not , in and of itself , indicate any self-evident aims . |
| 5 | Today ranked number eight , he was taking on the best of British , Jeremy Bates . |
| 6 | On April 26 , Lisa is to go to the Royal College of Music , in London , to take on the best of British players in the national finals . |
| 7 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 8 | So perhaps the moral for itinerant artists is to stay at home and work with what you know . |
| 9 | But the forest has been spared perhaps the ultimate in toxic waste . |
| 10 | But if IBM faces another year or two of turmoil in the United States , its problems will be made all the worse by foreign woes . |
| 11 | As it was by now one o'clock Cumberland 's staff suggested the men might halt to have their dinner but he replied , according to tradition , ‘ No , they 'll fight all the better on empty bellies . |
| 12 | All the more in classical law , when the formal and procedural differences still applied . |
| 13 | So much the worse for human beings ? |
| 14 | Things were much the same at Ideal , where Victorian novels and stage plays were preferred to books by contemporary worthies of literature . |
| 15 | Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that . |
| 16 | This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This is a small , oval shaped wrasse , with only the largest of male specimens growing up to 14 centimetres in length . |
| 19 | It 's as though only the worst in human beings is what 's real , the hard core of reality . |
| 20 | Revie showed that the best club managers are not necessarily the best at international level . |
| 21 | Nevertheless this lamentable epitaph should not obscure the fact that at least in part he achieved his purpose of " bringing together the best in new thinking and new writing in its time 's " and that , as he confessed in an interview , editing it had been " one of the most important and rewarding " of all his activities . |
| 22 | The main problem about this option is the logistic one of getting together the hundreds of different catalogues ( especially those of the small publishers ) necessary to ensure comprehensiveness . |
| 23 | Greg Norman , the man who started winning like mad after tossing away The Open at Royal Troon , makes me feel a total failure . |
| 24 | Nevertheless the controlled versus natural indexing language debate still rages . |
| 25 | The explanation , as I shall argue , is likely to be broadly the same for complicated things everywhere in the universe ; the same for us , for chimpanzees , worms , oak trees and monsters from outer space . |
| 26 | This is just the latest in long line of such scandals , which besmirch the country 's financial institutions as a whole . |
| 27 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 28 | The people murdered last week were every bit as innocent as were the people in the Shankhill Road , and I would be certain that the families of the people in the Shankhill Road would be horrified that the murder of their loved ones would be used as an excuse as an excuse to do exactly the same to other innocent people . |
| 29 | If all that was not the ultimate in human proximity to God , way above all ordinary mortals , she could n't imagine what else could be . |
| 30 | A number of innovations were recorded : the use of lifts ( though not the first in British council flats ) , the first use of the Garchey refuse disposal system in the country , heights up to 8 storeys , private balconies in the flats and emphasis on community provisions including playgrounds , laundry , gardens , shops and community hall . |