Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , however , we examine passive resonators , which are perhaps the simplest of all optical systems , and indeed , in one limit , reduce to a one-dimensional noninvertible map , and thus possess a period-doubling route to chaos . |
| 2 | I will add simply that locked rooms are only the purest of all sorts of " impossible crimes ' . |
| 3 | There are only the smallest of delicately dropped clues as to how and why they ended up with the social skills of a herd of rhinos . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not the bravest of men , I 'll be honest I did not like Sir Ralph using me as a page boy but he distrusted the others . ’ |
| 5 | Palace though are not the easiest of opponents . |
| 6 | Tabitha Zu , The Hinnies and The Cuckoos are Stollercoaster 's featured bands and , to be honest , they 're not the best of the new bunch . |
| 7 | Well we 're not the best of friends , she just takes the piss . |
| 8 | The land boundaries are probably the easiest of all . |
| 9 | Dally goes as far as to state that it indicates a bad prognosis for the disease , but I am glad to be able to report that although my jealousy continued into my adolescence , including the anorexic period , it did not deter my recovery , and that my sisters and I are now the best of friends . |
| 10 | Late in 1988 I purchased a second-hand Toyota KS901 ( we are now the best of friends but it did take a while ) . |
| 11 | You 've got shelter , food , and although I 'm not the easiest of companions at least you 're not facing your problem alone . ’ |
| 12 | By the time you 've finished , if you are n't the best of mates and invited down for a vair long weekend in the cuntrair , I can only say — Air nair . |
| 13 | But compressed ZIP files are n't the easiest of things to handle on a day-to-day basis . |
| 14 | The dead were merely the latest of hundreds of townsfolk murdered or ‘ disappeared ’ during the 1980s . |
| 15 | But , says Hall modestly and realistically , ‘ Drilling has taught us that the first models we worked with were only the simplest of a large number of possibilities that were consistent with the observations . |
| 16 | Special mention simply must be make of the members of the Cathedral 's Catholic Mothers group who helped Mrs Roberton with the lynches , and who were perhaps the best of all the many good things that happened to our 1981 Christian Aid programme . |
| 17 | You obviously knew they were not the brightest of fellows . ’ |
| 18 | Not even his young sister — and they were usually the worst of all . |
| 19 | Beatings by boot boys were probably the worst of it . |
| 20 | Among her leisure occupations is birdwatching , and she admits to being invariably the oldest of the few women ‘ twitchers ’ on the scene when a rare bird is reported . |
| 21 | The ten years my parents spent in Abyssinia were undoubtedly the happiest of their lives . |
| 22 | Luckier still , out of the British pot pourri , Scots were definitely the best of the lot . |
| 23 | And now in the firelight there is only the best of music to play . |
| 24 | In practice , it is only the largest of building societies which can offer a real competitive challenge . |
| 25 | While for education there is a major department of state , the Department of Education and Sciences which is responsible for national policy and the relationship between the centre and the local authorities , the personal social services is only the smallest of the three policy concerns of the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 26 | From there it is only the briefest of staggers to Route 66 or Blackett 's , in Bondgate , for a final beer before hitting the clubs . |
| 27 | That is perhaps the weakest of all the indicators on which the Government seek to rely . |
| 28 | Thus postnominal position does go hand in hand with a notion of emphasis , but only of one particular type , which is perhaps the weakest of those that might be considered . |
| 29 | Traditionally a compact , blocky , short-legged but relatively fine-boned beast , it fattens readily and matures early : it is perhaps the quickest of all breeds to convert pasture into prime beef . |
| 30 | It may seem extravagant to invoke such a range of processes in order to explain the effects of what is perhaps the simplest of training procedures ; , but in fact the list is as yet incomplete . |