Example sentences of "for [art] [adj -est] of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he was , an island of stillness in the flow of pre-Christmas shoppers and tourists , and Londoners heading into the glittering heart of the capital for the best of all possible times . |
| 2 | But for the best of both worlds ( smaller floats and speed of knitting ) do the first 12 rows as an intarsia and the rest with the mylar sheet ! |
| 3 | When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students . |
| 4 | All the sound and fury of the past few days has been a desperate diversion designed first to draw attention away from the unemployment figures , the inflation figures , and the figures for businesses closed and homes repossessed ; and , secondly , to draw attention away from what the Labour party is actually saying , and for the simplest of all reasons — they know it makes sense . |
| 5 | I made no protest for the simplest of all reasons — that I shared the Chancellor 's judgment that it was necessary to raise taxes in the Budget . ’ |