Example sentences of "at the [adj -est] part " 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 | Then , guess the following statistics : chest ( around the fullest part ) ; for women , just under the bust ( where the edge of your bra would go ) ; waist ( not pulling your tummy in as hard as you can ) ; hips ; around one thigh , at the widest part at the top ; mid-thigh ; just above the knee ; just below the knee ; mid-calf ; ankle ; the top of one arm ( around the widest part ) ; around the arm mid-way between elbow and wrist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Those in Islay range from a very simple wall , which at one time perhaps had wood stakes on it , built to enclose a headland and had a narrow entrance at the steepest part , to a substantial hill fort like Borraichill Mhor which encloses a considerable area . |
| 7 | Those in Islay range from a very simple wall , which at one time perhaps had wood stakes on it , built to enclose a headland and had a narrow entrance at the steepest part , to a substantial hill fort like Borraichill Mhor which encloses a considerable area . |
| 8 | Pulling his rifle to his shoulder he squinted along the barrel , aiming at the broadest part of the deer 's neck . |
| 9 | 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 . |