Example sentences of "[that] [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This means that even the best of gyros will always be a little too late to prevent any unwanted movement . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | You can see my point — that even the simplest of overcalls can steer opponents into strange misjudgements . |
| 8 | ( 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 " ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |