Example sentences of "[adj -est] of [adj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken all in all , though , it must be seen as the greatest of all the pending threats to present day life . |
| 2 | The vernal equinox was the greatest of all the Celtic seasonal festivals , since it signalled the rebirth of vegetation in the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 3 | The alternative focus to the harbour in Saint-Jean is the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste , which must be the largest of all the Basque churches . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls . |
| 5 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 6 | But the finest of all the variegated grasses must surely be Holcus mollis , with snow-white stripes . |
| 7 | The American naturalist William T. Hornaday gives this excellent description of the reptile : ‘ Gharials are the smoothest of all the large crocodiles I have been privileged to handle . |
| 8 | Tintern Abbey , one of the loveliest of all the ruined British monasteries , surrounded by a tree-covered landscape of wild natural beauty . |
| 9 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |
| 10 | It was all there in his eyes as they assessed her confusion — awareness , desire and worst of all a confident masculine knowledge of his own sexual power and her susceptibility to it . |
| 11 | It is without doubt the reddest of all the naked-eye stars , though binoculars are needed to bring out its colour properly . |
| 12 | Though Orlando 's population is the smallest of all the competing cities — around 1.1 million — the area attracted 15 million visitors last year , primarily to Walt Disney World . |
| 13 | The anoa is the smallest of all the wild cattle . |
| 14 | Omega Centauri is the brightest of all the globular clusters . |
| 15 | On the morning of the election , the nearest of all the major opinion polls to a correct result was Gallup in The Daily Telegraph , which put the Tories half a point ahead of Labour ( 38½ per cent to 38 per cent , a change-round of one percentage point over the course of the preceding week ) . |
| 16 | Below it are the two brilliant Pointers , Alpha and Beta Centauri ; Alpha , the nearest of all the bright stars beyond the Sun , is well above zero magnitude , so that only Sirius and Canopus outshine it . |
| 17 | Alpha , of course , is the nearest of all the bright stars , at a mere 4.3 light-years ; it is a fine binary with a period of 80 years , but the components are too close to be split with binoculars . |
| 18 | Perhaps the warmest of all the New Federal States , Saxony is sprinkled with baroque palaces and castles , including the infamous Colditz . |
| 19 | Cheshire is the oldest of all the English cheeses and is referred to in the Domesday Book , although it is thought to date back to pre-Roman times . |
| 20 | ‘ On the surface of things the Buddhists seemed the best of all the religious groups . |
| 21 | The best of all the planned towns are those such as New Winchelsea ( 1288 ) and Salisbury ( 1290 ) which were apparently laid out de novo on previously empty sites from the late eleventh century to the fourteenth century . |