Example sentences of "not [adv] the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not perhaps the easiest of vacations that Beverley now recalls . |
| 2 | Fei 's volume was not only the earliest of the series ; it was also the most Malinowskian in style and , most emphatically , by far the most successful . |
| 3 | This Company was not only the largest of the four groups , it was actually the largest railway system with the exception of state systems in the whole world , with a route mileage of 7,790 , ( excluding Irish Lines ) . |
| 4 | Bedford Square is not only the oldest of the Bloomsbury development it is also the only one that remains complete . |
| 5 | " Out now , out , Miss Nicandra , " Twomey turned on her , not surprisingly , for they were not always the best of friends . |
| 6 | Its leadership was corporate , unlike that of most modern churches ; it comprised an equally unusual feature , prophets and teachers in the leadership together- and they are not always the easiest of bedfellows . |
| 7 | Again , contra Lawrence , it is obvious that for Eliot the idea that modern western society should adopt savage customs is seen as ludicrous and reprehensible , since he believed that not even the lowest of civilized people could adapt themselves to such society without deteriorating and frequently also corrupting the natives . |
| 8 | Not even the faintest of breezes here . |
| 9 | No , she decided ; the silence was too deep ; not even the gentlest of movements upstairs could go undetected at Rose Cottage ; not with her floorboards . |
| 10 | It 's not quite the smallest of all the seeds , but nevertheless it 's small enough to make a proverbial point like tall as a house , or small as a mouse , small as a grain of mustard seed . |