Example sentences of "[art] old and most [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oldest and most worn-out woodcut , representing King Pippin , Two Shoes , or the grim Soldan , sitting with three staring blots for his eyes and mouth , his sceptre in one hand , and his five fingers raised and spread in admiration at the feats of the Gallant London Apprentice , can not excite in me a feeling of ingratitude . |
| 2 | Edward was not a great reader but he knew quite well that he was broaching the oldest and most central concern of literature ; he felt appropriately diffident . |
| 3 | It was built for a rich banker in the early sixteenth-century but is more renowned as the home of the Societa del Giardino , the oldest and most prestigious club in Milan which has used the palazzo since 1818 . |
| 4 | Chancery was the oldest and most solemn part of the whole apparatus . |
| 5 | At the oldest and most ruined building , they stopped and Mr Bumble took out his piece of paper . |
| 6 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 7 | James Capel ( ) , one of the oldest and most respected stockbroking firms in the UK , was founded in 1775 shortly after the London Stock Exchange was established . |
| 8 | Francis Newton was to found the firm Cossart Gordon & Co , which is one of the oldest and most respected madeira wine merchants and is today incorporated in the Madeira Wine Company Lda . |
| 9 | Elves are the oldest and most civilised race on the known world . |