Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 2 | Their homes are often sumptuously hung , not with the finest of eurocentric defined Fine Art , or even the craftiest of Crafts Council defined craft , but with Javanese batik , Indian embroideries , West African Adire , and selected ex-colonial produce . |
| 3 | The second reason for pressing the educational question is that only the largest of our national museums can afford to mount the kinds of ‘ spectacular ’ exhibitions cited two paragraphs back . |
| 4 | The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in . |
| 5 | In spite of the fact that even the best of his songs can seem surprisingly flat on the page , his vocal performance compels a belief in the aptness of the words . |
| 6 | One can bludgeon them with facts , anecdotes and innuendoes about the ways in which land is being misused , show that even the best of intentions are misguided , and that most people who have to do with land and what it provides hold views which are wrong . |
| 7 | This means that even the best of gyros will always be a little too late to prevent any unwanted movement . |
| 8 | Not only may some modern novelists display at least some of their methods , but it would appear that even the hardest of natural scientists fail to spell out all of the procedures which they follow in their research , indeed that they are sometimes unable to do so ( Mulkay 1979 ) . |
| 9 | You can see my point — that even the simplest of overcalls can steer opponents into strange misjudgements . |
| 10 | ( The growing scarcity of Persian village rugs is increasing their price , however , and it is quite possible that even the shoddiest of these will soon fall into the " medium category " ) . |
| 11 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |
| 12 | The years have been kind to Irene , though she 's still a lot more tired and worn than even the roughest of our nurses . |
| 13 | What would happen if he took the glass from her hand and kissed her parted lips Harry glimpsed in that instant , prefigured in the alluring darkness of her dress , darker , it seemed , than even the deepest of the shadows around them . |
| 14 | Her eyes flit an almost imperceptible challenge at the white man sitting opposite her to agree that indeed the darkest of dark is the most beautiful . |
| 15 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 16 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 17 | Makassar Oil ( a particularly noxious distillation from coconuts ) was a popular hair cosmetic for Victorian men , and perhaps the greasiest of " greasy kids ' stuff " ever to have caught on . |
| 18 | Makes you remember all men were hunters once and only the fittest of them survived . |
| 19 | I was very shy and not the sharpest of children . |
| 20 | This goal had important consequences for the role given , not only to critical or scholarly commentaries and other incrustations upon the essential text , but also to the teacher : " In dealing with literature in any full sense , to efface oneself , to stand away , between the child and literature , is the highest and not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake " . |
| 21 | The first and possibly the widest of these is its use to indicate feelings of pleasure and happiness , of general well-being and even of personal security , which comes from an association between two or more of earth 's creatures , and which attracts them to one another . |
| 22 | But if you think that money can ever pay me back for losing the little child — who came to the forge — and always the best of friends ! ’ |
| 23 | We have had a marvellous season with thankfully no major accidents and also the best of racing , particularly at the Ulster Grand Prix and the Tandragee 100 , so perhaps we can be forgiven for forgetting that racing needs not only the top line competitors like Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid it needs the newcomers to help the sport thrive and we are just not getting enough of them . |
| 24 | George could be the best of friends and terrifyingly the worst of enemies . |
| 25 | This means he will get the backing of the crowd for 90 minutes and that is invaluable at Old Trafford where , if you do n't score after 20 minutes , things can go quiet and even the boldest of players can become intimidated . |
| 26 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 27 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 28 | This was a Regency crescent , its big houses a shuffled deck of peeling stucco and expensive restoration , and even the meanest of them would n't come cheap . |
| 29 | Finally we turned back past Haddon Hall , a magnificent mediaeval country house and reputedly the finest of its kind in Britain . |
| 30 | Finally we turned back past Haddon Hall , a magnificent medieval country house and reputedly the finest of its kind in Britain . |