Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj -est] of [noun pl] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Schwarzenegger as the nicest of guys and De Vito as a sneaky crook are surprisingly convincing and delightfully funny . |
| 2 | According to Philo of Alexandria , a first-century Graeco-Judaic philosopher who wrote many works that still survive , including commentaries on the Old Testament , fifty was regarded as the holiest of numbers and ‘ the principle of the generation of the universe ’ ( De vita contemplativa , 65 ) . |
| 3 | She never noticed if Alexandra was fully dressed or had stumbled straight from sleep in her night clothes but would welcome her always with the sweetest of smiles and a gentle reproof for leaving her alone . |
| 4 | The edges of woven machine knit cloth are neat and firm and can be joined with the narrowest of seams and a single row of double crochet along the opening edge will be sufficient before inserting a zip fastener . |
| 5 | He had on a three-quarter-length crombie with a velvet collar , a dark-blue suit with the faintest of pin-stripes and a snowy linen shirt . |
| 6 | The mid-fourteenth-century English Dominican , John Bromyard , launched into what he regarded as the increasingly unChristian spirit of those , both knights and common soldiers , who went to war with the vilest of intentions and ‘ oaths and curses in their mouths ’ . |
| 7 | Black women live and work in the poorest of circumstances and confront the penalties of white racism as a matter of course in every aspect of their lives . |
| 8 | Try not to draw attention to yourself today — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue . |
| 9 | Try not to draw attention to yourself today — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue . |
| 10 | Try not to draw attention to yourself — you are not in the best of moods and arguments could ensue . |
| 11 | When I eventually arrived at the hospital I was feeling in the best of spirits and apparently shook the sisters by asking them to bring on the dancing girls . ’ |
| 12 | SINEAD O'Connor grew up in the worst of environments and knows religion causes many of society 's problems . |
| 13 | That 's it you have to put it in the simplest of terms and that is the way that most people would understand it , you know , you come to sixty five or whatever and instead of having three hundred pounds a week you 've got eighty five pounds a week and what are you going to do about it . |
| 14 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 15 | Their extra wide tyres cushion you perfectly over the roughest of roads and each bike has easy-to-use gears . |
| 16 | The family of daisy-like flowers covers nearly every conceivable colour from the most shocking of pinks and oranges to the subtlest of pastels and creams . |
| 17 | Known as ‘ lubberkins ’ in Elizabethan times , the more doltish lobs were relegated to the simplest of tasks and took their refreshments outdoors , so clumsy and ill-mannered were they . |
| 18 | He was so blatantly , shamelessly inquisitive , so ready to place the most sensational interpretation on the smallest of circumstances and , under the guise of concern , to savour to the full the trials and tragedies of his neighbours . |
| 19 | The algae are among the simplest of plants and appeared very early in the history of life on Earth . |
| 20 | I do not like using the telephone at the best of times and was never very fond of small-talk , that tedious lubricant for rusty little minds . |
| 21 | Change is uncomfortable at the best of times and the patient is discomforted . |
| 22 | Telling you Christmas dinner 's no picnic for The Lady of the House at the best of times and this year was no exception . |
| 23 | It was run on a shoestring at the best of times and Kelly was merely adding to his problems . |
| 24 | They 're frightened of women at the best of times and strong women scare them even more . |
| 25 | He was an emotional man at the best of times and a proud one , and the one often cancelled out the other . |
| 26 | I do n't like strangers at the best of times and particularly not when I 'm eating . |
| 27 | Griffin eventually scraped through by the narrowest of margins and now faces a semi-final tomorrow . |