Example sentences of "by [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A month ago , the all-Union Supreme Soviet voted against discussing the issue by only the narrowest of margins . |
| 2 | In the medieval monastic library , knowledge fell into such simple categories that broad grouping on shelves could be accompanied by only the simplest of catalogue descriptions . |
| 3 | It was interesting to hear Ludovic Kennedy on the relevant evening 's Any Questions ? on Radio 4 stating that angling is by far the cruellest of these activities . |
| 4 | The group includes by far the largest of terrestrial animals ever to have lived ( Brachiosaurus ) , creatures to dwarf the largest bull elephants . |
| 5 | By far the greatest of the new houses was Cowdray , built over several generations by the Earl of Southampton , Sir Anthony Browne and Viscount Montague . |
| 6 | This is particularly true of the contributions by Senfl , by far the greatest of the group , such as his setting of ‘ Gelobet seist du ’ . |
| 7 | By far the commonest of these three connectives is and . |
| 8 | By far the smallest of the utilities is Timekeeper which needs just 13K . |
| 9 | Owned and trained in Roscommon by Tom Clyne , the brindle clocked 31.45 secs , by far the slowest of the four first round heats . |
| 10 | But by far the worst of his establishments was the Noir et Blanc , a palatial clipjoint on the waterfront . |
| 11 | Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to tell us why over the last year the unemployment record of his Government is by far the worst of any in the European Commuity ? |
| 12 | By far the biggest of these was Edo , the seat of the ruling Tokugawa Bakufu . |
| 13 | About half of the loans were planned for Russia , by far the biggest of the republics . |
| 14 | The trial which was carried out in Oxford is by far the biggest of its kind . |
| 15 | But David Evans was a fair-minded young man , and knew from his historical studies that bad luck can not be avoided by even the greatest of men . |
| 16 | By then the worst of the day was over and things became easier , as I later recorded : |
| 17 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |