Example sentences of "the [adv] [adj] [noun sg] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The most reactionary government this century ’ is merely a mild form of left-wing rhetoric . |
| 2 | In an impassioned speech , Jacko begins , ‘ I think this is just about the most important question this union 's ever had to face . |
| 3 | ‘ Obviously Barcelona is the most important thing this season but it 's going to be different from four years ago . |
| 4 | The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Mind , ’ she added fairly , ‘ I suppose he has some justification ; even I have to admit that he 's the most devastating-looking man this side of the Boyne , and women do tend to try and — er — interest him . ’ |
| 6 | The prize for the most unfortunate advertisement this year must go to Mobil , the oil major , for yesterday 's offering in the Financial Times . |
| 7 | The most difficult leg this side of the half-way mark was over . |
| 8 | There you are out innocently canoeing , with the most gorgeous man this side of the Rocky Mountains , and out of nowhere a storm hits . |
| 9 | But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith . |
| 10 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
| 11 | I am a new reader having bought Machine Knitting Monthly for the very first time this morning . |