Example sentences of "[adj -est] and [adv] dangerous [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The Stroicim Inchinn , the ancient forbidden art , sorcery of the strongest and most dangerous kind : the power of one mind over another .
2 According to the Mail on Sunday , John Major is telling friends that Blair is ‘ the most formidable debater and has the quickest and most dangerous mind ’ on the Opposition benches .
3 For example , he swam across the Firth of Clyde on four occasions , and across the Firth of Forth on one occasion — perhaps his greatest and most dangerous feat was to swim across part of the often stormy Pentland Firth at the top of Scotland from John O'Groats to the island of Stroma .
4 It was the beginning of what was to become the greatest and most dangerous hardship of our voyage .
5 And it was all so ‘ un-English ’ : ‘ The shoulder charge , the fairest and least dangerous weapon in the footballer 's armoury , has declined , and in its place has arisen a regiment of mean and dangerous tricks …
6 Great whites , also known as white pointers , are the biggest and most dangerous shark species found in the waters around Australia .
7 Producing shame , anger , and futility , it is masturbation which , for Lawrence , constitutes the most pernicious evasion of otherness , becoming ‘ perhaps the deepest and most dangerous cancer of our civilization ’ , and ‘ certainly the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted with , in the long run ’ ( ‘ Pornography ’ , 3 17 ) .
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