Example sentences of "just the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're just the prettiest cakes on earth , ’ a Van Cliburn patron explained to me . |
| 2 | Sometimes the seated guests are just the closest family and friends , while other friends , children , neighbours and colleagues from work are invited for the dancing and party later in the day . |
| 3 | We did a John Peel radio session a while ago and me and Debbie both used these really early seventies Thin Lizzy amps and they were just the best . |
| 4 | ‘ Was n't that just the best goddamned fun you can have this side of a blanket ? ’ |
| 5 | As a result , the Population Census is not just the best , but in practice the only , source of reliable data on a reasonably wide range of demographic and socio-economic characteristics at sub-regional scale . |
| 6 | She says he 's brilliant , just the best — and good-looking , yes ! |
| 7 | It 's brilliant it is just the best . |
| 8 | It was the widest ramp , it had various height sections , many of the better skaters , the convenience of the nearby shopping precinct , and just the funniest and best skate sessions . |
| 9 | The April Saturday was mild , with just the faintest threat of showers . |
| 10 | Outside in the street the traffic might roar , here there was hush broken only by that soft subliminal music , outside the air might be heavy with the mingled smells of petrol fumes and donuts , Macdonalds ' burgers , trash cans , and sweat , here there was just the faintest perfume of a pine pot-pourri , subtle as the music . |
| 11 | This instrument has been used as a demo model for some time , so it 's well played-in ; one potential buyer ( a music-shop owner , would you believe ) strung it up with enormously heavy strings and loosened the truss-rod , but the NY-5 has survived this ill-treatment with just the faintest distortion of the belly . |
| 12 | There was just the faintest trace of hesitation behind his smooth approach , as if for once he was n't quite sure that was true . |
| 13 | ‘ Candy , there must be three hundred people in the club tonight — would you care to give me just the faintest inkling who you 're talking about ? ’ |
| 14 | Even if the higher probability strings are included in the computation , as opposed to just the highest , there remains a built in possibility of error . |
| 15 | it must have poured on us but I ca n't ever remember it raining You know there was when we used to go to Deerness I had very long hair and we And Kirkwall was n't just the cleanest of place at places at that time . |
| 16 | Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another . |
| 17 | Now , Kirov had moved into a secondary stage , manipulating every conversation so that apparently casual words left just the subtlest hint of something else unsaid , yet implicitly suggested . |
| 18 | My mom said she had just the greatest time with you all last year . |
| 19 | WITH just the smallest of the 23 starters in the Whitbread Round the World Race , the 51-foot La Poste , due last into Punta del Este , Uruguay , at midnight tonight , crews are preparing for the second leg , writes Stuart Alexander . |
| 20 | ‘ Well ? ’ said Calatin who was , truth to tell , becoming just the smallest bit afraid of this strange , golden-eyed creature , but who would not have dreamed of showing it , because you did not show discourtesy to guests , not if you wanted business from them . |
| 21 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 22 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 23 | Minimum premiums are just the smallest amount that Abbey as a company can make a profit on . |
| 24 | Just the touch of his chest pressing hard against her breasts , just the lightest fleeting brush of his thighs against hers , and suddenly her heart was weeping from the wanting of him . |
| 25 | Not just the purest treasures , brands were viewed as perpetual ones too . |
| 26 | It is just the latest , polite way of saying that whites want to live in Africa , but they ca n't for the life of them get along with Africans . |
| 27 | It is just the latest of many ignorant assaults that are damaging a national asset envied around the world . |
| 28 | This is just the latest example of the threat to free information and even free speech presented by the nuclear energy lobby . |
| 29 | And this is just the latest episode in Kitchens Of Distinctions ' star trek across America . |
| 30 | Area technical maintenance manager Pete Wootton , 32 , revealed that the wage drop was just the latest generous gesture in a long line of good turns . |