Example sentences of "by the [adj -est] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape . |
| 2 | Cnut 's taking of a second , imperial , crown may well have been stimulated not only by a position in Scandinavia which emulated that of Swegen , but by achievements in Britain which lay firmly in a tradition established by the greatest of his royal Anglo-Saxon predecessors . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said : ‘ Toledano was murdered by the lowest of men , the wild animals of the Hamas organisation . ’ |
| 4 | If some of these performances leave a little to be desired , it is largely on account of the issue that dogs all solo-voice performances of Byrd 's vocal music , Latin-texted or English : his music is too difficult to sing well on only limited familiarity , even by the best of musicians . |
| 5 | She saw them glance at each other and exchange a conspiratorial arching of the eyebrows , compounded in Miller 's case by the faintest of nods . |
| 6 | The A.87 enters Glen Shiel at Shiel Bridge and after a level two miles in which the scenery is dominated by the highest of the Five Sisters , Sgurr Fhuaran seen in full stature , starts the gradual ascent to Cluanie , bypassing the old Bridge of the Spaniards , so called because of a battle here in 1719 between Redcoats and Jacobites , the latter being reinforced by Spanish troops . |
| 7 | In the September 1981 party conference it was revealed that Healey had indeed won , by the narrowest of margins , with 50.3 per cent of the popular vote ; the star of Tony Benn began to dim somewhat thereafter , not least because Michael Foot was able subtly to mount a movement of the old ( or ‘ soft ’ ) constitutionally-minded left against the ‘ hard left ’ of the neo-Marxist , unilateralist fringe . |
| 8 | In 1990 , he re-emerged as a political leader by winning election as its Speaker , a post that is anything but ceremonial , by the narrowest of margins . |
| 9 | Boxing : Colchester Boxing Club 's Andy Farrow showed his versatility when faced by a tricky opponent as he moved into the national schoolboys under-42 kilos semi-finals.Up against a spoiling boxer in the shape of Greg Algar of Eltham BC at Sandwich , Farrow persevered and kept himself out of trouble to win by the narrowest of points decisions.The judges awarded the fight to the 14-year-old Alderman Blaxill pupil 60–58 , 59–58 , 58–60 . |
| 10 | A GAMBLE on Omidjoy , backed from 66-1 to 14-1 for the opener at Leicester yesterday , failed by the narrowest of margins when odds-on Fair Maid Of Kent got up again to lead on the line . |
| 11 | Henry Wharton added the British super-middleweight title to his Commonwealth crown by the narrowest of margins . |
| 12 | Instead it was the visitors who made the early running , albeit by the narrowest of margins in the first three games . |
| 13 | In the end , Kennedy won , but by the narrowest of margins : a popular majority of 118 550 of the 68 million votes cast . |
| 14 | Voters throughout the region are trying to make sense of the new Europe tonight , after the French accepted the Maastricht Treaty by the narrowest of margins . |
| 15 | Blair was wide by the narrowest of margins with three well-struck penalties before Gallagher went over for his second try following a quick transfer right from Johnny Hastings . |
| 16 | Griffin eventually scraped through by the narrowest of margins and now faces a semi-final tomorrow . |
| 17 | Gent adopted a change of style for the fight and almost pulled off an upset , unbeaten Wharton retaining his championship by the narrowest of margins after the brutal 12-round battle was declared a draw . |
| 18 | Local ace Mick Broadley led by the nearest of margins beating Brian O'Keefe 19.6.0 to 19.5.0 off adjoining pegs . |
| 19 | Fine , almost invisible lines covered the whole surface , as if the sphere were netted by the frailest of spiders ' webs . |
| 20 | A layer of liquid separates the two and this absorbs the chitin from the old skeleton , leaving the hard sclerotinised parts connected by the thinnest of tissues . |
| 21 | Quite hidden from the solitary road around the perimeter , the A.832 , the interior can be reached only on foot and the mountains climbed only by the toughest of adventurers . |
| 22 | The famous Corinthians provided the opposition for his richly deserved Benefit on 13 March 1929 ( 3–3 ) and Bob had also been a key member of the sides which missed the single promotion place from Division 3 ( South ) by the closest of margins in 1982–29 and 1930–31 . |
| 23 | I climbed the stone staircase , lit by the dimmest of light bulbs . |
| 24 | This was accompanied by the weakest of smiles . |
| 25 | He is n't the type to be tied down , even by the flimsiest of bonds . |
| 26 | For example , party A could win two marginal seats by the barest of margins while party B won one seat with an overwhelming majority ; the aggregate vote for party B in the three seats could well exceed that of party A , but party A has won twice as many seats . |
| 27 | Both Wingti and the outgoing Prime Minister Rabbie Namaliu polled 54 votes in the 109-member legislature , and Wingti finally prevailed through the casting vote of the new Speaker , Bill Skate , who had himself been elected earlier by the slimmest of margins by 55 votes to 54 . |
| 28 | The assembly endorsed the new prime minister by the slimmest of margins . |
| 29 | The blue eyes regarded the world with the slightly cynical assurance of a man accustomed to getting what he wanted when he wanted it by the simplest of expedients , that of paying for it . |
| 30 | Richard Hannon 's 1-8 favourite appeared ill at ease on the switchback track and scrambled home by the shortest of short heads from Troon . |