Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For perhaps the best of reasons , parents were reluctant to subject their daughters to even the slightest diminution in their standard of life . |
| 2 | The usefulness of the library to the English teacher must also not be under.emphasized , although very often " work in English " calls for only the simplest of library skills from the pupil . |
| 3 | Absolute phase was correct , frequency response flat except for only the tiniest of ripples . |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't you trust me enough to keep it between just the two of us ? ’ |
| 5 | For not the least of Henry 's problems was how to raise the money required for the accomplishment of such an undertaking . |
| 6 | We do n't have beef very often , but you get a bit small enough for just the two of you , by the time you 've cooked it |
| 7 | NOW , A PHOTO OF JUST THE TWO OF YOU , MR WYATT |
| 8 | They witness to a process of realisation of the confusion , frustration , failure and partiality at the heart of even the best of human experience , let alone the worst , which makes them essentially accessible to all ; but they also witness to an awakening understanding of the fact that these are the very means of the experience of transformation . |
| 9 | He would not , of course , be alone in being exposed in the General Prologue and enhancing the adverse view of himself by his own Prologue — consider , for instance , the Pardoner — but he would be alone in then telling a tale which clinches the destruction of any claim to a good character he might have ; a tale without any redeeming features , which the tales of even the worst of the corrupt clerics , the Friar and the Pardoner , have . |
| 10 | South of Iceland , the Atlantic Ocean stretches out devoid of even the tiniest of islands for thousands of kilometres . |
| 11 | The Jewish commentaries on the story tell of how the two of them worked as a team , educating the people around them , teaching them that they should not worship idols , and that there is only one God . |
| 12 | Mrs Dale 's Diary , which ran for twenty-one years on BBC radio from 1948 , was always gently laced with humour ; its rural rival , The Archers , which began two years later , is a broadly similar amalgam of the playful and the sentimental ; and between them , in a sub-literary sort of way , they illustrate the power of a revived realism in post-war Britain : quite different from the grand-opera histrionics of American TV soaps like Dallas or Dynasty , which are scarcely funny at all , at least in intention , and wildly unrealistic as images of how the rich in the United States really live . |
| 13 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 14 | The bedroom door opens with only the softest of creaks . |
| 15 | Algy used up his measure of luck , I was then given a super navigator with only the sharpest of pencils and the instinct of a homing pigeon who took me through my tour ; he perished the first time he New without me after I was hijacked to Bennett 's staff . |
| 16 | With only the two of them on board his choices were limited . |
| 17 | His voice was pleasant and well-modulated , with only the faintest of Nottingham accents . |
| 18 | This is a small , oval shaped wrasse , with only the largest of male specimens growing up to 14 centimetres in length . |
| 19 | She laughed and playfully tugged at his hair and he responded by penetrating her completely with only the slightest of movements . |
| 20 | Wadkins got away with not the best of drives at the 18th but he had a gap , hit a five-iron to 45ft and then holed it across all sorts of slopes and burrows . |
| 21 | Wolves ' fans are coming with not the best of reputations . |
| 22 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 23 | It gets a bit dull with just the four of you , and of course everyone else has already made plans . ’ |
| 24 | The man looked dangerous , and with just the two of them in this house , with no one around within screaming distance , she was n't taking any chances . |
| 25 | Without him we had to struggle along with just the three of us . |
| 26 | Both of hope that they include ideas to inspire and encourage those with even the smallest of gardens to create their own interesting , colourful features . ’ |
| 27 | She had replied that it still seemed an expensive policy compared with even the dearest of umbrellas , and George had thought about that and said : ‘ You ca n't piss into an umbrella , either . |
| 28 | An open form , with even the tiniest of openings , invites entry and permits a continuity of inside and outside space . |
| 29 | Being a mere 60 inches wide you can dart and squeeze into even the smallest of gaps . |
| 30 | He described his intention in only the vaguest of terms , saying that ‘ it was our purpose to ride forth against the enemies in the parts of France ’ , but it is likely that he and Lancaster hoped to join forces . |