Example sentences of "more than the most [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus party apparatchiks can spend months or years devising an appropriate slogan without anyone paying more than the most perfunctory attention when the thing is published , while some silly so-and-so can go on Newsnight and make an indelicate comment and be all over the newspapers for weeks . |
| 2 | I believe that perhaps the best example is an accident which attracted hardly more than the most casual public attention . |
| 3 | He is , of course , much more than the most prodigious goalkicker the international game has seen or is likely to see , given the reduction in the number of penalty offences . |
| 4 | With the exception of deeply divided societies such as Northern Ireland , it has tended in practice to be very difficult to attribute more than the most limited amount of crime to any kind of underlying ideological commitment . |
| 5 | It was easy enough to demand racial equality , fair distribution of the wealth of the world , or equal rights for women : none of those would happen tomorrow , and none of them involved more than the most superficial cosmetic surgery to make yourself credible . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the Multipaint program offers no more than the most basic of features . |
| 7 | Constance , her family and friends showed forth their feelings artlessly , with simple language and gestures , seldom seeming aware of any call for emotional discretion or more than the most basic politenesses of society . |
| 8 | The sad truth is that the average collector is unlikely to recover more than the most fragmentary remains of dinosaurs . |
| 9 | The schoolboy tight-head fancied himself as a hard man and was intent on working Elliot who , in fact , was so immensely strong that the lad can have been no more than the most minor of irritants . |
| 10 | The impact of tourism stops pretty soon outside the medieval walls of the town , and the dwellings are like those of any impoverished fishing village in Cornwall , Sicily or Provence : low , simple buildings containing no more than the most primitive necessities , but opening on to the turquoise bay , with the Venetian walls on the western side and red cliffs to the east . |
| 11 | Her fingers dug deep into his shoulders as she clung to him , caught up in a maelstrom of sensation , too stunned by the sheer beauty of it all to register more than the most fleeting second of pain . |
| 12 | The simple organizational structure of the army and the short careers of its officer corps meant that no one had anything more than the most rudimentary administrative skills . |