Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 2 | Not an enemy at all — but an ally in the greatest , most righteous , yet perhaps also the vilest of plans . |
| 3 | The tank is 7ft long and 4ft wide ; so even the tallest of you should fit nicely ! |
| 4 | Meanwhile perhaps the earliest of the inhibitor experiments was made by Wesley Dingman and Michael Sporn , in Rochester , New York , in 1963 . |
| 5 | Major Bugler was just about the best of these on the level — winning a competitive handicap at Ascot in October . |
| 6 | Just about the best of these over timber , he made a successful debut over fences at Carlisle and further improvement seems likely over today 's longer trip . |
| 7 | Just about the lowest of the low . ’ |
| 8 | In the Gaullist world-view , the best of times were always potentially the worst of times . |
| 9 | The project is just one of a number he has in the resort , and he claims the attack of vandalism also just the latest of a growing number . |
| 10 | From the bifurcation of the two routes , Cool for Cats moves airily up the shallowest of grooves above the semi-rest , with more Stennis jugs for company , to a stopping place beneath a faintly bulging section which bars entry to the more pronounced line on the right flank of the blunt arête . |
| 11 | Here even the best of guide-books fails us . |
| 12 | On the one hand , it can be seen as a discipline , indeed perhaps the oldest of all disciplines , with its own core of sometimes highly technical activities which are peculiar to it , and the normal organizational manifestations of departments , chairs , courses , degrees , and so on . |
| 13 | SOMETIMES EVEN THE EASIEST OF MOUNTAINS CAN DEFEAT YOU . |
| 14 | Omega Centauri , very much the brightest of them , is the only real exception ( European and North American astronomers always regret that it is so far south ) . |
| 15 | ‘ And is n't that just the worst of all ? ’ he asked with a bitter smile . |
| 16 | Not that even the staunchest of experimental Calvinists could allow the doctrine of assurance or perseverance to make them complacent about their own salvation . |