Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [prep] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of all the women I know , she is by far the most successful with men , even though she is n't the best-looking . |
| 2 | Many people find that they drop their meditation practice or whatever it is at precisely the time when they think they need it most — i.e. when they are feeling most stressed . |
| 3 | It is at once the strength and the weakness of Justinian 's law that its grasp of principle is slack : a powerful command of principle had led the classical lawyers to develop a finely worked system ; yet , that done , they were entrapped in it and helpless against its inadequacies . |
| 4 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 5 | Indeed it is at once the changing social history and the complex sociology of the changing institutions and relations which take us beyond these formulas to the possibility of more precise analysis . |
| 6 | Enclosure is manifest in many forms ; it is at once the womb-like interior of airplane , the surface of the body , the frame of a window , the border between countries , and the boundary between discourses . |
| 7 | ‘ It is at once the most absorbing and frustrating of professions , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure you know , Inspector , how impossible it is for even the most committed clergy to avoid incurring — not to put too fine a point on it — hatred . |
| 9 | In the cold , wet northern and western parts of the country it is by far the most reliable cereal crop . |
| 10 | Having read it , I am convinced it is by far the most important study of both the man and the scientist . |
| 11 | Some of this land is not its responsibility , for while it is by far the biggest operator in the china-clay industry it is not the only one , and there are mica dams , abandoned pits and spoil tips where neither the writ nor the sheep of Derek Owen run . |
| 12 | Known as the pressoir coquart , it is by far the most common machine in Champagne presshouses ; in other areas the hydraulic and pneumatic horizontal presses are more commonly used . |
| 13 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |
| 14 | It is by far the best single-source reference on this ever-growing subject available . |
| 15 | That it is by far the funniest and most essential comedy show on television ( fourth series imminent in October , kids ! ) is a sad indictment , I mean , all that money Roy Clarke earns … |
| 16 | ‘ It is by far the most common cause of asthma in Britain , the allergy that kills 2,000 people a year , incapacitates hundreds of thousands and costs £450 million a year in NHS prescriptions and billions in hospitalisation and time off work . |
| 17 | This can occur with any mineral , but it is by far the most common in clay minerals which typically have rather loosely bonded cations on their surfaces which can be readily exchanged for cations in solution . |
| 18 | The first of these was chosen because it is by far the shortest sentence of the story , whilst the remaining two contain , respectively , explicit and symbolic allusions to death . |
| 19 | It is from here the arête shows its teeth , though not immediately . |
| 20 | It is in both the firm 's and the consumer s interests that this is for some extended period : in the case of the latter because search costs ( presumably ) are finite and so will not be worth incurring if there is only some probability of finding low prices , unless the benefits are substantial . |
| 21 | As and when the information is supplied , it is in both the vendor 's and purchaser 's interests to ensure that the documents and complete copies are carefully indexed . |
| 22 | His choice is wealth : he is at once the traditional hero of British fiction in search of a happy marriage and prosperity — Tom Jones or David Copperfield — and , in his brisk competitive zeal , the first fictional yuppie . |
| 23 | He is in exactly the right job : streets ahead of most others in the UK in his number-crunching agility — ‘ in the country 's top 5 per cent , at least ’ , Bloch says — and ‘ unbelievably good ’ at critical reasoning , with a score of 90 . |
| 24 | ‘ He is in exactly the right frame of mind to do the business . |
| 25 | He did really ought to be audited , and sorry there are other people as well , he is by far the most extreme person , but then there will be other people as well . . |
| 26 | The reasons for obeying these moral rules are egoistic , that to disobey them is to forward the perils of social chaos , or to risk punishment . |