Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean of York presided and addressed the gathering for nearly an hour on the subject of " The History of the Deaf and Facts about Them from the Earliest Era " . |
| 2 | She was good at sewing , and managed to make some clothes for me in the thinnest material available . |
| 3 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 4 | The figures in Appendix I , Table 4 suggest that paying off credit agreements typically absorbs roughly twice as high a proportion of income for someone in the lowest income group as it does for people in higher income groups . |
| 5 | IR was born in America in the 1940s to service the nation 's host of small private investors ( 47m of them at the latest count ) . |
| 6 | A multiplicity of stations would appear in each Latin American capital of importance , some of them among the grandest anywhere . |
| 7 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 8 | Everyone who worked with Laura at this time agrees that , as a fashion editor , she had a sure instinct about forecasting trends , a canny feel for coordinating colour and fabric that was invariably right , and knowledge of which of the latest details could be adapted to the ‘ Laura Ashley ’ look . |
| 9 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 10 | It is symptomatic of our age that we wish to declare the existence of everything in the loudest possible way . |
| 11 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 12 | I had the impression of a cautious , reflective man , who would take his work seriously and perform what was required of him to the best of his ability . |
| 13 | His regiment 's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles . |
| 14 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 15 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 16 | In completing the questionnaire , research students may have opted to complete parts of it in the quickest way without much thought . |
| 17 | Even today Ravenna is unique in the quality of its Byzantine work , particularly the mosaics , most of it from the finest period of the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 18 | The 460,000 Antwerpers think of themselves as the liveliest and most sociable of Belgians . |
| 19 | Without the use of anything but the simplest words , this sentence leaves its meaning entirely clear , and yet it still has an emotional quality that can not be forgotten . |
| 20 | At times , as I have researched this book , it has occurred to me that the second-hand book world is the only place left in England where knowledge of anything but the latest semi-literate fads still exists . |
| 21 | GROWING OLD is a terrible business for most of us at the best of times . |
| 22 | To help your GP prescribe for you in the best possible way , from April 1991 , what is called an ‘ indicative prescribing scheme ’ will be introduced . |
| 23 | This unique Number 4850158 has been selected especially for you in the latest by invitation-only Hospital Plan Cash Match Prize Draw . |
| 24 | ‘ If I may say so , that 's not like you in the slightest . ’ |
| 25 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 26 | I shall carry with me into the darkest corners of the world knowledge , peace , freedom , religion , the hope of heaven ! |
| 27 | Erm I will take those notes away with me in the strictest confidence , go through them erm work out some recommendations , how you could hit the goals that you will go for at the end of the day . |
| 28 | Now that I had my dolls and their dolls ' houses , I set about playing with them with the greatest pleasure , and when I visited Wood Green I shut my eyes to some of the realities . |
| 29 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 30 | The creamy-textured shower mousse , which contains , syndets , aloe , ispaghul and ginseng , has a dermatological cleanser to combat dryness as it cleanses , while the deodorant anti-perspirant , in an ozone-friendly spray , blends farnesol , aluminium salts and extracts of sage and liquorice to ensure that you will carry the great feeling from those first precious moments in the bathroom with you throughout the longest of days . |