Example sentences of "of [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearby ( at left ) are some of finest views in England |
| 2 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 3 | The bakers of wedding cakes and purveyors of finest Champagne . |
| 4 | Strategic Missile Wing , one of finest , we feel . |
| 5 | He 's not going to warn Shatov or tell the police , he 's going to make a statement ‘ for general edification ’ — words but no deeds , a turn towards sanity and life that might have been , and a horrific-comic Possessed moment of subtlest art . |
| 6 | Six foot seven inches of nicest , brightest man on radio , cheers me up no end . |
| 7 | But the food is always of second-best quality — the left-overs from the hunters . |
| 8 | Among the ‘ lower caste ’ people , the woman 's role had always been rather different from her role in the farming castes ; now ‘ lower caste ’ women worked increasingly in the fields alongside the men and this led , according to Mamdani , to ‘ a radical change … in the attitude towards girl children … low caste families do not look upon the birth of a girl with the disfavour they used to ’ — though ‘ to a certain extent the disfavour persists because the girl will marry and emigrate precisely when she has reached the age of greatest productivity ’ . |
| 9 | The effect of the bill on the existing channels is therefore of greatest concern . |
| 10 | The allies could , and should , do more to minimise the chances of further disasters ; they could , for instance , stop bombing Baghdad , where the targets of greatest military value must have already been destroyed . |
| 11 | Evidence of human occupation here goes back to the Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods ( Early and Middle Stone Ages ) but its period of greatest activity was in the Late Iron Age , from roughly 100 BC to 50 AD , when it became a trading centre and port for people and goods from the Continent . |
| 12 | As might be expected stock work , the main source of income , and machinery , the main source of expenditure , were the areas of greatest concern . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing so little as grace at first , and nothing more glorious afterward : things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth … |
| 14 | One of the moments of greatest strain came during the meeting at Ashford Castle in Ireland ( April 1990 ) when it appears that the Germans suggested that the Deutsche Mark should become the single currency . |
| 15 | Thus , at what seemed its moment of greatest triumph , popular national liberation foundered . |
| 16 | The particular case of greatest interest to Revusky is that of conditioning with some interfering event ( X ) presented in the interval between CS and US . |
| 17 | It is no coincidence that the areas of greatest prosperity in late twentieth-century Britain correspond to the civil area of the Roman province : at no time since the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain in AD 410 has the economic and political relationship with continental Europe been so close . |
| 18 | The wisdom of the ancient world saw that it is in our points of greatest personal weakness that we are most defensive , and where we compensate addictively in our emotions . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , though it is an area of greatest interest , it is also one most difficult to get information about . |
| 20 | It is the fates of these kingdoms which form the background of El Cid 's area of greatest activity . |
| 21 | In addition to his political and military achievements , Barbarossa acquired a legendary fame ; like the British King Arthur , he is said to be sleeping , awaiting the time of greatest need for his return as a national saviour . |
| 22 | On HLCAs they recommend paying the maximum EEC rates to the areas of greatest handicap ; lowering the stocking limit per hectare or linking HLCAs to the area of rough grazing on a farm so that farms with the most rough grazing receive the greater payments . |
| 23 | This approach was adopted in order to concentrate resources on areas of greatest need ( Young , 1986a ) . |
| 24 | In England the belt of greatest interest is concealed by Mesozoic cover . |
| 25 | The week following admission appears to be the time of greatest risk ( Copas and Robin 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 27 | As with dew ponds and tumuli the edges of chalk pits are the places of greatest power ( and the points where the leys pass ) . |
| 28 | To establish whether government investment was made where it was likely to see the greatest return or to areas of greatest deprivation , public spending patterns were analysed in the light of private investment and previous revitalisation and deprivation patterns . |
| 29 | Developed for spinnaker sails , where tear resistance is critical and the ability to form into an aerodynamic shape is of greatest importance for efficiency , ripstop has become an ideal fabric for all types of kite . |
| 30 | Perhaps I think it beneath my dignity to let myself be carried on the spontaneous flood , employing my divine gift of reason only to navigate on the course of greatest awareness . |