Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Mabb , UK director of the NZ Meat Producers Board , made only the briefest of references to last year 's imports of chilled lamb into Scotland which led to recriminations from farmers . |
| 2 | He would need only the briefest of feels . |
| 3 | Patients were asked to write down the highest of three blows for the paper and pencil diary and to enter the values of all three blows into the computer . |
| 4 | He explains that most specialist dies are , of course , catered for , including vegetarian dishes , which , I noticed , were unusual enough to tempt even the staunchest of meat-eaters like myself . |
| 5 | This place has n't the happiest of associations for me . ’ |
| 6 | Even these modest broadcasts show only the best of the bunch . |
| 7 | In fact , with my spartan diet and my gentleman 's bag which could accommodate only the tiniest of souvenirs ( a freedom I thought , compared to others ' great domed rucksacks ) , I began to feel like some travelling ascetic , roaming through ‘ the vast cinema of sensation . ’ |
| 8 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 9 | ‘ You look quite strong , ’ she said , picking up the largest of the suitcases and dragging it up the stairs . |
| 10 | The last straw was located about 10 or 15ft from safety , at which handholds seemed to disappear altogether and aching feet were scrunched up the tiniest of ripples . |
| 11 | It is surely rather a lot to ask an alien species , perhaps 50 light-years away , to pick up the faintest of traces and then instantly respond . |
| 12 | Its primary function is to sharpen up the best of good practice . ’ |
| 13 | She tried to hold up her long skirts with her free hand , grateful for the moment to the intermittent lightning which showed up the worst of the puddles ahead . |
| 14 | Here , Boswell raises again the widest of smiles , at the sight of his heart , pulsating with snobbery , on his sleeve : ‘ I was exceedingly pleased with Lord Errol . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Your old ships , my lord King , were already engaged with the ships of Earl Siward and getting much the best of it . |
| 17 | Even in apparently well-integrated families , fathers exert only the smallest of influences on the child 's sports participation . |
| 18 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 19 | I suppose I lost track of time too , ’ Belinda explained lamely , too consumed with riding out the worst of the tingling as feeling returned to her leg . |
| 20 | Keeps out the worst of it , and blankets the noise a bit too . ’ |
| 21 | If you can not detect even the shallowest of breaths , attempt artificial respiration making sure the chest starts to rise . |
| 22 | Without him around the energy to do even the simplest of chores had been taken away from her . |
| 23 | Our perception of spermatozoa was changed forever by Woody Allen 's impersonation of one in Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex , and University of Pennsylvania are giving substance to his fantasies , putting the poor little tadpoles through an arduous obstacle course to step up the process of survival of the fittest : according to Prodigy Services Co , the mad scientists have created a new class of silicon chip that can be used for analyzing sperm samples and providing a venue for fertilisation ; the technology uses microscopic obstacle courses inside a silicon wafer to weed out unhealthy sperm , and has been used successfully to fertilise a mouse egg ; the chips are etched with a virtual theme park of twisting channels , forests of columns , and other features designed to ensure only the strongest of sperm reach their goal , with some passages so small that only a single cell can pass ; the researchers have not yet applied for approval to test human fertilisation using the chip , but say that could happen within the next 12 months — Brave New World , or the embodiment of virtual sex . |
| 24 | The centre in this explanation should not , as Shils observes , be understood in a geometric sense or even in a geographical sense ; in fact , the term ‘ centre ’ stands for the value systems by which society is ordered and thus may have only the weakest of links with particular concrete manifestations of elite values in politics , economics , culture or other aspects of societal interaction . |
| 25 | The daunting confines of the Crucible Theatre have been known to make strong men tremble over the simplest of pots , but after what has happened to the unassuming Thai in recent weeks , it will be a shock of seismic proportions if the occasion affects him — even on his debut . |
| 26 | Coming up the best of the action from the Endsleigh Insurance League , we start at Molyneux it 's Wolves and Stoke City , Phil the reporter . |
| 27 | The peasantry , which comprised the majority of the population in the Middle Ages , had no such comfort , for instance : a small hole left in the wattle and daub , covered with a piece of cloth to keep out the worst of the weather represented a ‘ window ’ to them . |
| 28 | Occasionally the Imperial forces try to clear out the worst of these foes , but the area remains wild and dangerous . |
| 29 | More Queens are surviving even the coldest of months . |
| 30 | The once exclusive partnership has to be shared , and this sharing can often unbalance even the closest of relationships . |