Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adv] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They witness to a process of realisation of the confusion , frustration , failure and partiality at the heart of even the best of human experience , let alone the worst , which makes them essentially accessible to all ; but they also witness to an awakening understanding of the fact that these are the very means of the experience of transformation . |
| 2 | These figures , emanating from the Council of Mortgage Lenders , are challenged by Janet Ford who claims that they underestimate the number of people in arrears because they rely upon cross-sectional data , drawn from the experience of only the largest mortgage lenders . |
| 3 | The wasteful use of the bathrooms , for instance , can turn a summer holiday into a time of intense anxiety and the purchase of water by the lorry load may strain the budget of even the best-heeled family . |
| 4 | The purchase of water by the lorry load may strain the budget of even the best-heeled family . |
| 5 | The document has a dual interest : its own intrinsic historical value ; and the insight it provides into the thinking of perhaps the greatest technician of the Cabinet machine in Cabinet Office history . |
| 6 | No question , though , about the pick of probably the largest and choicest crop of books in the game 's history . |
| 7 | It was not the only banquet taking place in Kinsai , but it was clearly the one at which the nobility of the Khanate of even the lowest degree had thought it was incumbent upon them to be seen . |
| 8 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 9 | As you can see from the first diagram , the body of even the toughest fighter is covered with ‘ soft spots ’ ( or vulnerable areas ) which can easily be seen and reached . |
| 10 | Despite that , there is no doubt — for all the brilliance of maybe the best Pakistan side of all time — they will be remembered by many for their tricks and tantrums . |
| 11 | In many tuna sets most encircled dolphins are successfully released , but sometimes adverse weather conditions or equipment malfunctions can hamper the efforts of even the best-intentioned and most experienced crews . |
| 12 | Sometimes the development costs exceed the resources of even the largest firms . |
| 13 | The local diocese has appealed to the water authority to do something about it ; but something as elemental as the ever-moving Severn is beyond the resources of even the richest and most powerful water authority . |
| 14 | But in the past few years , the insurance market has been losing money , and it has turned out that the resources of even the richest people are less than infinite . |
| 15 | As we have seen in the last chapter the surface of even the smoothest glass is infested with tiny invisible cracks and even if it were not , it soon would be when it had brushed against some other solid . |
| 16 | The 5pc cut in new sales tax wiped hundreds of pounds off the price of even the cheapest models . |
| 17 | He would not , of course , be alone in being exposed in the General Prologue and enhancing the adverse view of himself by his own Prologue — consider , for instance , the Pardoner — but he would be alone in then telling a tale which clinches the destruction of any claim to a good character he might have ; a tale without any redeeming features , which the tales of even the worst of the corrupt clerics , the Friar and the Pardoner , have . |
| 18 | As we go up the scale of complexity , many highly evolved and sophisticated molecules are involved in the constitution of even the simplest living cell . |
| 19 | For those petrified by the prospect of even the simplest programming , this basic approach is a real help . |
| 20 | The quality of even the latest software is not above reproach and much remains to be done to ensure that the computer is the servant rather than the master of its users . |
| 21 | ‘ I have always felt that it is a crying shame that the works of possibly the greatest writer of all time , William Shakespeare , have — purely for examination purposes — been pushed down the throats of school children . |
| 22 | Moreover , no ruler had a title longer or more complex than that of the tsar ; and none was more ready to resent the omission of even the smallest part of it . |
| 23 | The most important point is that relatively complicated life habits can be inferred from a careful consideration of the anatomy of even the simplest looking animal , particularly when there are related , similarly adapted animals for comparison . |
| 24 | When you think about it , the beauty of even the smartest kitchen is only skin deep . |
| 25 | ‘ The ruler of even the meanest Principality has a palace , ’ Francis said scornfully , ‘ and every one has a half-finished tower , or a carelessly added gatehouse in a different style . |
| 26 | Lyle , as defending champion , had to be-jacket Faldo , and coincidentally it signalled the end of perhaps the finest stretch of golf played by a British golfer . |
| 27 | The contextualizing of even the simplest poem has no obvious point to end at , once begun . |
| 28 | Safety requirements demand , among other things , the installation of multiple back-up systems for emergency cooling of the reactor , as well as constant checks by regulatory bodies on the standard of even the smallest weld . |
| 29 | One of the features of the conflict which has made its resolution so difficult has been the inability of any of the protagonists — internal or external , powerful or weak — to mould events or other players to its will , and the ability of even the weakest players to throw a spanner into the works of both allies and adversaries . |
| 30 | They have devised sophisticated instruments to detect and measure the energies of even the smallest traces of the products . |