Example sentences of "to the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the sound of leadership campaigning had been clearly audible even to the doughtiest Thatcher-devotees , and most were prepared , if pressed , to take sides . |
| 2 | All , from Davout down to the humblest ranker , were eager to put it to the test . |
| 3 | The last act before the battle was the same for all , from the Czar , Kutusov and Weirother down to the humblest man in the ranks . |
| 4 | Everyone from the governor to the humblest creeping ‘ trustie ’ knew that Michael Holly would serve only a minimal proportion of those fifteen years . |
| 5 | They seemed to be pandering to the silliest stereotypes . |
| 6 | In terms of norms associated with dress , awards are made by official bodies such as tailors ' organizations to the best-dressed men in Britain . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But life responding to the subtlest change |
| 9 | The high-profile trip was meant to be an upbeat and cheerful end to the toughest year of their lives — instead they appeared to be at breaking point . |
| 10 | Adam , 52 , and former dancer Jackie had their marriage put to the toughest of tests in the early days . |
| 11 | And apart from the Bohemian Rhapsody news of the rest of the European football tonight and we have the double attacking spearhead of Colin Fray and Martin Fisher at the City ground and you listening to the classiest football cover on Radio Nottingham from five past seven . |
| 12 | Although he could trace his ancestors back to the reign of James the first , he had not been able to find a single man on that tree of immoralities — even to the bloodiest root — who had caused , either by his hand or hiring , what he , Estabrook , was out this midnight to contrive : the murder of his wife . |
| 13 | On 19 December 1946 the leader of the indigenous forces in Vietnam , Ho Chi Minh , initiated the rising against French colonial occupation , which was eventually to lead to the bloodiest and politically most crucial local war this century . |
| 14 | Extremes of temperature are clearly undesirable , but the goldfish is well adapted to the seasonal cycle of temperature and changes that range from 4°-25° Celsius over the year presents no problem to the hardiest varieties , while the more delicate fancies would be well suited by a range between 10°-25° C. |
| 15 | Thousands of living species occupy every marine habitat from the shallowest to the deepest abyss , and , as every gardener knows who has tried to protect his vegetables against marauding hordes of snails and slugs , they have been remarkably successful in making the transition from sea to land . |
| 16 | In India , though the first stations appeared in the 1850s , the finest examples came later and the building of lines to the deepest recesses of the subcontinent went on until 1914 . |
| 17 | Here were all the colours of the pink-side of the palette , from blush-veined ivory to the deepest purple . |
| 18 | High oxygen levels permit life to extend to the deepest parts of both Ness and Morar . |
| 19 | ‘ Situation ’ refers to the deepest , the organic structures of a social formation ; movement there is fundamental and relatively permanent , the result of crisis . |
| 20 | The tragedy principle , then , positions a flaw on the body related to the deepest possible social fall . |
| 21 | In the fierce noon-day sun the water stretched as far as the eye could see , in every shade of blue from palest turquoise to the deepest indigo of the horizon . |
| 22 | He retreated to the deepest part and stood up to the chest in filth , weeping . |
| 23 | However , although these five writers belonged to a minority group in their society , and although they say that their experience derives from a source greater than human reason can comprehend , they are fired with a certainty that it is intimately related to the deepest needs and purposes of human being , and has about it the simple inevitability of fulfilment . |
| 24 | By the half-way stage it was apparent to the dimmest Danuese that it was a communications antenna . |
| 25 | He has upset many influential Democrats , partly because he has blundered into their territory , partly because he is congenitally blind to status distinctions , judging everyone from the loftiest senator to the lowliest staffer on the basis of the quality of their arguments . |
| 26 | From the military governor , General Uriarte , down to the lowliest officer , the Jews were made to pay to survive in business . |
| 27 | Harrods has the final say in whom its concessions may hire , even down to the lowliest positions , and Sally may have seemed the obvious choice to impress them . |
| 28 | From Beijing , the Broughtons went to Xi'an , to see the famous terracotta army , thousands of lifesize statues of the emperor 's bodyguard , each modelled on an individual soldier from the general to the lowliest private . |
| 29 | Each Holy One has , in turn , asked us to listen within to the purest guidance that is our entitlement . |
| 30 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |