Example sentences of "and [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 2 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 3 | Makassar Oil ( a particularly noxious distillation from coconuts ) was a popular hair cosmetic for Victorian men , and perhaps the greasiest of " greasy kids ' stuff " ever to have caught on . |
| 4 | Makes you remember all men were hunters once and only the fittest of them survived . |
| 5 | I was very shy and not the sharpest of children . |
| 6 | This goal had important consequences for the role given , not only to critical or scholarly commentaries and other incrustations upon the essential text , but also to the teacher : " In dealing with literature in any full sense , to efface oneself , to stand away , between the child and literature , is the highest and not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake " . |
| 7 | The first and possibly the widest of these is its use to indicate feelings of pleasure and happiness , of general well-being and even of personal security , which comes from an association between two or more of earth 's creatures , and which attracts them to one another . |
| 8 | But if you think that money can ever pay me back for losing the little child — who came to the forge — and always the best of friends ! ’ |
| 9 | We have had a marvellous season with thankfully no major accidents and also the best of racing , particularly at the Ulster Grand Prix and the Tandragee 100 , so perhaps we can be forgiven for forgetting that racing needs not only the top line competitors like Joey Dunlop and Brian Reid it needs the newcomers to help the sport thrive and we are just not getting enough of them . |
| 10 | George could be the best of friends and terrifyingly the worst of enemies . |
| 11 | This means he will get the backing of the crowd for 90 minutes and that is invaluable at Old Trafford where , if you do n't score after 20 minutes , things can go quiet and even the boldest of players can become intimidated . |
| 12 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 13 | Yet even the most productive thoughts and even the bravest of responses to the new dimensions of my predicament could not wholly keep the chill out of my bones or push away the icier gloom from above my head . |
| 14 | This was a Regency crescent , its big houses a shuffled deck of peeling stucco and expensive restoration , and even the meanest of them would n't come cheap . |
| 15 | Finally we turned back past Haddon Hall , a magnificent mediaeval country house and reputedly the finest of its kind in Britain . |
| 16 | Finally we turned back past Haddon Hall , a magnificent medieval country house and reputedly the finest of its kind in Britain . |
| 17 | Operated by Thor Chemicals and reputedly the largest of its kind in the world , the Cato Ridge plant reclaims mercury from toxic waste imported from the northern hemisphere . |
| 18 | And then the largest of the Oaks moved forward and Tealtaoich saw that he had the high , domed forehead of a scholar and a thinker and that his ancient eyes held wisdom and knowledge . |
| 19 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 20 | He described the mess over there , and how the Best of the West horse parade had ended ten minutes before the quake hit . |
| 21 | And yet the best of such monographs , despite the concentration upon a tiny range of human activity , will tell us more about the ordinary social behaviour of mankind than a whole shelfful of general textbooks labelled Introduction to Cultural Anthropology . |
| 22 | As chairman of probably the oldest and certainly the noisiest of the Institute 's technical committees , I am able to reassure such doubters ; indeed , the Technical Advisory Committee 's advice is still the foundation of most Institute responses on accounting and auditing matters . |
| 23 | I have never said that Just Do It was the hardest route in the world — it 's one of the most difficult , and certainly the hardest of its type — that 's all . |
| 24 | Probably the best song on ‘ Mighty Like A Rose ’ and definitely the best of the Costello collaborations with Paul McCartney that we 've heard so far . |
| 25 | The Champ 25SE combines tube and solid state technology to bring you , it maintains , the ultimate in versatility and therefore the best of both the valve and tranny worlds . |