Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is presumably the first in a series of large format paperbacks , with a fairly substantial text giving a concise summary of campaign history backed up by numerous black and white photographs from government sources ; and pages of coloured artwork mostly devoted to uniformed figures , with a few showing aircraft , armour and artillery . |
| 2 | Populism , however , is rarely the worse for sceptical assessment : particularly when it is equated with justice . |
| 3 | ( v ) National claims summarize complex economic and social interests and classes , a coalition that is rarely the same in different times and places ; so ‘ nationalism , does not , in and of itself , indicate any self-evident aims . |
| 4 | Valmorel is effectively the fourth of the Three Valleys and is approached from Aigueblanche , just outside Moutiers . |
| 5 | Since you can pick up a no-frills steam iron for £40 or £50 I assumed it would take all the angst out of what is arguably the last of the genuinely ghastly domestic chores . |
| 6 | He is all the better as a witness , since one can not doubt that he genuinely sought instruction . |
| 7 | The 20th century may have been slow to arrive in Langtoft , but it is all the better for that , and whilst the village has now caught up with modern times , it remains a haven of peace from the mad pace of town and city life . |
| 8 | Any work that involves ‘ waiting ’ or ‘ cab rank ’ service is all the better for the mathematics of operating a piston-powered airliner . |
| 9 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 10 | The gasp of delight is all the stronger for the trick played being nearer to hand . |
| 11 | We er well I mean there 's only the two of us |
| 12 | ‘ With no relatives on either side , there 's only the four of us , and we 've always been very close . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Genesis is basically the three of them , writing in the studio and then recording . |
| 14 | Krakatoa is merely the first of a whole chain of active volcanoes which arc down through the Indonesian islands and round the Pacific to form what geologists call the Ring of Fire . |
| 15 | And , if the situation with regard to individual psychological development and the evolution of culture is as I have represented it , then this is merely the first of many profound insights into the psychology of the ego — and perhaps most especially the superego — which can be expected but which were totally unobtainable as long as the individualistic fallacy blocked the way . |
| 16 | More than half a century after that , Sir William Temple , one of the outstanding English diplomats of the seventeenth century , had to struggle repeatedly in the 1660s and early 1670s to obtain arrears of salary and repayment for the expenses he had incurred , and he is merely the best-known of many similar cases . |
| 17 | The conclusion to be drawn from one theory is that attempts to restructure the welfare state helped to generate forms of ‘ territorial ’ resistance ( Rhodes ) , while from the other , this is merely the latest in a continuing series of attempts by UK central governments to overcome and control the differentiated demands of a series of local governments with their own local bases of political support ( Duncan and Goodwin ) . |
| 18 | The European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) is merely the latest in a series of collaborative projects that have produced radars , missiles and aircraft for the alliance . |
| 19 | This design/build contract is only the second of its kind to be let in Scotland and will be the first to be completed . |
| 20 | The initial change in Singer from shuddering zombie to desperate fighter for life is only the first of several metamorphoses — all caught with bravura vividness in Antony Sher 's phenomenally versatile performance . |
| 21 | In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future . |
| 22 | That 's right , if you 're organizing something like that and thinking about it from now , this is only the first of September , but |
| 23 | I would like to add that it is only the first of many Platinum Hotels I intend to open throughout the world . ’ |
| 24 | Their Lordships agree that the mere existence or recital of a prior request is not sufficient in itself to convert what is prima facie past consideration into sufficient consideration in law to support a promise , as they have indicated , it is only the first of three necessary preconditions . |
| 25 | When it is only the two of us , however , we discuss gifts we are given , exotic restaurants in which we have dined . |
| 26 | And now in the firelight there is only the best of music to play . |
| 27 | In practice , it is only the largest of building societies which can offer a real competitive challenge . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | This propaganda flop is only the latest in a stream of disinformation and contradictory statements emanating from Cambodia since the Vietnamese said they were finally withdrawing all their troops from the country . |