Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj -est] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To warm myself up I did a few tried and tested jokes , ‘ You do n't have a vase ? ’ being my oldest and most standard one . |
| 2 | You are my oldest and most special friend . |
| 3 | Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , the brains behind all 30 of the Carry On films , remember Carry On Camping as one of their funniest and most successful pictures . |
| 4 | At the same time the Welfare State , designed to provide a safety net for those incapable of fending for themselves , was being rapidly expanded , and the NHS can be seen as its greatest and most enduring feature . |
| 5 | The fact that DEC plucked him out of its largest and most profitable systems businesses and split that down the middle so he could run the NT operation is proof that DEC expects significant results out of NT . |
| 6 | Despite the débâcle over the march , the rally had been a success and the DHAC returned to the Guildhall in late August for its largest and most successful demonstration so far , in the council chamber . |
| 7 | I have no doubt myself that a man or woman earnestly seeking in grown-up life to be guided to wide and suggestive knowledge in its largest and most uplifted sphere will make the best of all the pupils in this age of clatter and buzz , of gape and gloat . |
| 8 | Edinburgh is Scotland 's capital , and , until overtaken by Glasgow in the middle of the eighteenth century , was its largest and most important city . |
| 9 | Ivan F Boesky , et al , the Commission began its largest and most notorious case to date . |
| 10 | Last year the branch tackled one of their toughest and most unusual jobs when they moved the Totem Pole from the staircase by the tea room to the Main Hall . |
| 11 | The unpredictability of the man was more than made up for by the heady feeling of surrendering to life at its sweetest and most bright . |
| 12 | Sophisticated versions may be found in a number of workshop items , particularly Kerman and Quoom , but perhaps its finest and most definitive expression is encountered in the more primitive rugs of the Bakhtiari tribe . |
| 13 | Silver Helm Knights are drawn from all the realms of Ulthuan and include many of its finest and most noble sons . |
| 14 | Silver Helm Knights are drawn from all the realms of Ulthuan and include many of its finest and most noble sons . |
| 15 | ‘ The problem of women is all that is marvellous and troubling in the world ’ sighed Andre Breton in the second Surrealist manifesto of 1929 ; and just as the predominantly male membership saw woman as their muse , the fueller of their fantasies and liberators of their imaginations , so they used her body as a vessel and vehicle for their wildest and often dark plumbings of the subconscious . |
| 16 | It 's hip hop at its birth , it 's DJ Kool Hero , ‘ Apache ’ by The Incredible Bongo Band , subway trains with Smurfs on the side , fat laces , quick cuts and the almost mythical impression of New York at a time when black music gave birth to what remains its hardest and most vital creation . |
| 17 | Sir Nikolaus Pevsner has called it ‘ an absolutely consistent epitome of Tudor architecture at its plainest and most sober , very English in its understatement ’ . |
| 18 | The case of the flutes and oboes requires a little more judgement , for , if the chord were high-placed , dovetailing would result in the 1st oboe playing in its thinnest and least effective register , e.g. . |
| 19 | His Gazette obituary concluded in 1910 : ‘ Blackpool has lost one of its oldest and most devoted public officials ’ . |
| 20 | She spun with a gasp to see Tony running towards her , and immediately she ran to him , flinging herself into his arms with relief at the sight of her oldest and most cherished friend . |
| 21 | It is at its best and most characteristic in its bottom octave-and-a-half . |
| 22 | For those who want to make a choice or are for some reason coming new to Ferrier , I would recommend the fifth disc with the unforgettable Chausson and Brahms , the sixth , which has some of her best and most lovable performances of British song , including Purcell 's Mad Bess of Bedlam preciously available only in an EP , allied to some precious Wolf , sung with new-found subtlety of nuance , from a Norwegian Radio recital , and the ninth disc , the Edinburgh recital with Walter , which has much the more telling of her two accounts of Frauenliebe und -leben . |
| 23 | A Kevin Ellis drop goal in the 35th minute had England shaking as Wales displayed some of their best and most fluent rugby . |
| 24 | Glancing through a book I wrote for the Daily Telegraph in 1970 , I was struck by the gloom with which many men and women — but especially men — viewed the prospect of what could be their happiest and most satisfying years . |
| 25 | His finest and most original writing is usually to be found in his prose , rather than his poems . |
| 26 | He is at his most Howard-like , his funniest and most lovable . |
| 27 | The centre-piece of her collection of 28 songs is the cycle , La chanson d'Eve , late settings of symbolist poems with Faure at his subtlest and most refined . |
| 28 | For example , he swam across the Firth of Clyde on four occasions , and across the Firth of Forth on one occasion — perhaps his greatest and most dangerous feat was to swim across part of the often stormy Pentland Firth at the top of Scotland from John O'Groats to the island of Stroma . |
| 29 | And tonight she was at Earls Court watching her son face his greatest and most daunting challenge — the ‘ fight for the right ’ . |
| 30 | His longest and most penetrating chapter discusses the event of his mother 's presumed suicide in 1912 . |