Example sentences of "just about the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scaup must be just about the loneliest farm in England , tucked down in the shelter of the hills with Kielder Forest 's dark mass blocking its southward view and the narrowing valley of the burn filling half the sky to the north . |
| 2 | The Tan Hill Inn is the highest public house in England and for my money just about the loneliest . |
| 3 | And as it turned out , staying inside Armstrong was just about the cleverest thing I did that night . |
| 4 | Yet for all that , health provides just about the bloodiest battleground in British politics today . |
| 5 | They both married , with Madge going to live in Cotherstone , just about the nearest village to us , and Violet staying near the bottom of the dale . |
| 6 | SAVING the punchline till last , just about the best joke of a pretty unfunny decade comes in its dying days . |
| 7 | SAVING the punchline till last , just about the best joke of a pretty unfunny decade comes in its dying days . |
| 8 | ‘ And I 've got just about the best security around , ’ he says . |
| 9 | There were three Sixes , and Trusty was just about the best Guider any Pack could wish for . |
| 10 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 11 | Major Bugler was just about the best of these on the level — winning a competitive handicap at Ascot in October . |
| 12 | Just about the best of these over timber , he made a successful debut over fences at Carlisle and further improvement seems likely over today 's longer trip . |
| 13 | I said yes automatically — it 's just about the best Pakistani restaurant in town . |
| 14 | ‘ Just about the best British sax player since Tubby Hayes . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The ride is firm , but there 's no body roll and the engine is just about the sweetest I 've ever had . ’ |
| 16 | As the new Defence Under-secretary , Robert Cranbourne occupies just about the lowliest position in John Major 's cabinet , Yet he is also somebody the Prime Minister and his colleagues can not afford to ignore . |
| 17 | ‘ If you did that , then it is just about the greatest miracle a person has ever performed since the time of Jesus . ’ |
| 18 | Just about the lowest of the low . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Anyone who 's prepared to use a child as a pawn just to score points in some personal vendetta has to be just about the lowest form of life . |
| 20 | What I meant was he 'd got just about the finest set of false teeth I 've ever seen . |
| 21 | Aeroplane travel is just about the easiest . |
| 22 | I happened to be just about the oldest one of the team of them really . |
| 23 | One February Sunday , on just about the coldest night I 've ever known , four of us queued up outside a cinema in Golders Green for over an hour to see Crocodile Dundee . |
| 24 | This was potentially just about the safest ‘ skipper ’ in Britain . |
| 25 | Just about the hardest job in the Commons is making the Opposition 's reply straight after a Government announcement , particularly a financial one . |
| 26 | But the biggest , best organized and just about the nastiest was Famlio . |
| 27 | ’ Why ’ Frejji was saying , ’ somebody told me they saw just about the nastiest bunch , come in lately . |
| 28 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 29 | Sandy thought his 68 was just about the worst he could have got out of the round , driving like that . |
| 30 | ‘ On complex issues , Cabinet committees are just about the worst possible way of arriving at sensible decisions … . |