Example sentences of "at the [adj -est] part of " in BNC.

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1 A section through Draycott cave is shown in Fig. 4.2 , and the main concentration of amphibian bones occurs at the deepest part of the entrance chamber of the cave where it seems to be permanently wet .
2 She seemed to be staring , transfixedly , at the lowest part of the laboratory complex , at a bright light that had flickered on .
3 It is remarkable that the river Alde immediately south of Aldeburgh is separated from the sea by only about 50 m of shingle at the narrowest part of the spit , which causes a 17 km ( 11 miles ) deflection of the river .
4 Avoid trying to jump white water , aiming instead to jump at the steepest part of the wave which is normally the part about to break , the critical section .
5 Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel , aiming at the broadest part of the deer 's neck .
6 Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind .
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