Example sentences of "[adj -est] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have trees or fences around the pool , the cheapest and most effective deterrent would be heavy-gauge fishing line stretched about seven feet above the pool . |
| 2 | However , the cheapest and most useful solvent for laboratory use is commercial grade acetone . |
| 3 | The cheapest and most practical method was for the shikari to sit out over a tethered bait in a tree hide or machan waiting for the tiger to appear . |
| 4 | The cheapest and most readily-available output device is the printer . |
| 5 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
| 6 | The Stroicim Inchinn , the ancient forbidden art , sorcery of the strongest and most dangerous kind : the power of one mind over another . |
| 7 | The conscription of manpower into the armed forces and war-related industries deprived agriculture of the strongest and most able element of its workforce at a time when the production process was still relatively unmechanized . |
| 8 | By far the strongest and most permanent field divisions are stone walls . |
| 9 | Instead of filling up the brandy bottle with water , I had put Mrs Joe 's strongest and most unpleasant medicine in by mistake . |
| 10 | I do not recall that that was always his keenest and most enthusiastic point . |
| 11 | Moving Seawitch and herself out of Gibraltar would be the quickest and most effective way of killing public interest . |
| 12 | But now the quickest and most nourishing meal is the winner . |
| 13 | According to the Mail on Sunday , John Major is telling friends that Blair is ‘ the most formidable debater and has the quickest and most dangerous mind ’ on the Opposition benches . |
| 14 | About 75% of solicitors qualify in this way which is the quickest and most common way to qualify as a solicitor . |
| 15 | BRITAIN 'S youngest and most unusual building society , the Ecology , is hoping to raise £250,000 from savers prepared to ‘ invest in the alternative ’ , and take out the society 's fixed one-year conservation bonds . |
| 16 | The youngest and most significant heating event is taken to be due to the crustal stretching in the mid Jurassic . |
| 17 | Two days later he granted me a private audience , a remarkable consideration during those eventful days to his youngest and least important guest . |
| 18 | Lasting 13 days and costing thousands of pounds , the ‘ devil dog ’ trial , which ended in Antrim yesterday , was Ulster 's longest and most expensive court case involving dogs . |
| 19 | Their attempt to stop Ireland 's most popular ‘ blood sport ’ follows the province 's longest and most expensive courtroom battle involving dogs . |
| 20 | Taken as a single body of water , between its source and where its waters reach the sea at Marienburg as the Reik , this is the longest and most substantial river system in the Old World . |
| 21 | The former has the longest and most consistent record of prosperity . |
| 22 | Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch . |
| 23 | Hoccleve 's longest and most popular work , judging by the number of surviving manuscripts , is the Regiment of Princes , written 1411–12 . |
| 24 | His longest and most penetrating chapter discusses the event of his mother 's presumed suicide in 1912 . |
| 25 | The IDA 's success in attracting Raybestos Manhattan led to perhaps the longest and most bitter struggle against a multinational in Ireland . |
| 26 | The one Johnson 's enthusiasm faded and he soon drifted away from the sport ; the other had his first competitive contest in the following January and so began one of the longest and least celebrated ring careers in British boxing . |
| 27 | Try the Saloon , ’ advised Susan , and they forthwith entered the dingiest and most depressing room they had ever been inside . |
| 28 | The ensuing exchange between the two close friends is a fair example of the way a fiction-writer can combine , in the neatest and most intriguing manner , supportive material with the implied interplay of personality . |
| 29 | The neatest and most popular way of implementing full-wave rectification is by means of four diodes arranged in a Wheatstone bridge formation as shown in figure 7.1(b) . |
| 30 | They can advertise themselves in the truest and most direct way possible : the experience of friends , colleagues or neighbours who make up the union . |