Example sentences of "the [adj -est] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The film sticks to the same ‘ kid beats dumb robbers ’ formula which made the original Home Alone the third-highest grossing movie of all time and top comedy with takings of over £330 million worldwide . |
| 2 | They accept , in other words , ‘ a natural duty ’ to pursue the best-founded moral ideal . |
| 3 | Square on plan and domed , its Roman Doric portico was by far the grandest then built in Scotland . |
| 4 | As well as Winemark 's specially selected own label wines , several of which were awarded medals , a broad range of wines was entered ranging from the humblest Vin de Pays to the grandest Grand Crus and the Red Wine of the Year — Albor Rioja Tinto 1991 , a firm wine coated with black cherry aromas and flavours and lots of fruit echoing in the finish . |
| 5 | The station was conceived in the grandest imperial manner , but although there was much interesting architectural detail , the statuary which was supposed to adorn the entrance and other parts of the exterior was never sculpted as the colder economic winds of the late 1920s began to blow . |
| 6 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 7 | Bothwell Castle , towering dramatically over the River Clyde , is arguably the most important medieval castle in Scotland , and certainly the grandest secular building surviving today from that great age of castle-building , the 13th century . |
| 8 | He has that ingrained self-confidence most commonly attributed to the grandest old Etonians , although he failed to win a scholarship there and ended up at Charterhouse . |
| 9 | Some nothing can spoil , and they grow up into the nicest young people you can imagine . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He 's the nicest young man I 've ever met . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He was one of the nicest young men you could wish to meet , ’ said Mr Robinson . |
| 12 | If you are eligible to say that , anyone over the age of forty will be impressed in the nicest possible way . |
| 13 | Ladies in Burberry raincoats can be intimidating in the nicest possible way . |
| 14 | In the nicest possible way , homesitters are supposed to make themselves at home , watering the plants , unblocking drains and deterring burglars . |
| 15 | Furthermore , he added what would be construed as an ultimatum but couched in the nicest possible terms . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , when the occasion demanded it ( as it did during the turbulent period in which he became Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University ) , he showed great courage and firmness — the latter always in the nicest possible way . |
| 17 | Yes , he might have an amusing time with the two women , he thought suddenly , in the nicest possible way . |
| 18 | That means trying to get them commit committed in the nicest possible way . |
| 19 | Well , of course the guy with the sixty per cent just kept saying , you know , up yours , in the nicest possible way , you know , it may work for you , but why should I do it when I get no benefit from it , and I own sixty per cent of this outfit . |
| 20 | I want to us to get , in the nicest possible sense , closer to one another . |
| 21 | In the nicest possible way , of course . |
| 22 | The night of the Spring Ball arrives , Carrie looks beautiful , she 's being escorted by the nicest possible person and then they get elected as King and Queen of the Spring Ball ! |
| 23 | In er in the nicest possible way . |
| 24 | And yet she was in one of the nicest private rooms in the hospital ; she had a telephone and a television ; her nightgown was a silly frou-frou of frills and spilling lace and on her thin fingers the rings — diamonds and sapphires in platinum — rattled as she clasped and unclasped the sheet . |
| 25 | The nicest looking edition of Dominic I 've ever seen |
| 26 | That 's a that was difference yo you end up voting , you end up actually voting who 's the nicest human being , not |
| 27 | Newsweek called it ‘ the baddest bad play possible to conceive … a mess , an incredibly hackneyed , shamelessly exploitative farrago … |
| 28 | Besides , Georgina must know that Fowler-Thrown and Ivor were rivals ; and that was the blandest possible construction you could put on their relationship . |
| 29 | The declaration recognized the special needs of the poorest developing countries and the proposals included con-cessional interest rates on debt as well as the adjustment of repayment periods . |
| 30 | A household survey in Kenya in 1974 found that tax was paid on 77 per cent of the income of the poorest rural group . |