Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next offscreen fuss around the film was caused by the attempted by The Godfather producers Paramount to block its release , claiming that Brando 's self-caricature contravened their copyright on the Vito Corleone character . |
| 2 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | If we assume , instead , that the poorest in the locality benefits ( though not fully ) from the cuts in central tax , a higher output will be chosen as a result of the cut in taxes , though this will be less than output OX 2 , the output that would be chosen if an equivalent lump-sum grant had been received . |
| 4 | The evidence already cited on the worsening position of the poorest in the unemployment stakes suggests that these assumptions will lead to an underestimate of the difficulties the poor have in finding work . |
| 5 | Castle Master is without a doubt the finest of the Freescape games . |
| 6 | ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , perhaps the finest of the Conversation Poems , is a meditation on Coleridge 's own childhood , and a passionate expression of hope for Hartley 's future . |
| 7 | One of these mines , Randfontein Estates , survives and is the largest of the gold mines , that JCI operates . |
| 8 | The Hall of Columns has at its head a replica of the raza , wheel , of the Viscontis used as the central element of the largest of the apse windows . |
| 9 | The new IT programme following on from the ESPRIT 11 will be the largest of the Framework lines with a total allocation of 1352 MECU ( £950 million ) . |
| 10 | The largest living insects today are not longer than about 30 centimetres — the wingspan of exceptional specimens of the atlas moth , and the length of the largest of the stick insects . |
| 11 | The rarest and one of the largest of the breeding vultures of the region , an all-brown typical broad-winged vulture , readily distinguished at close range by massive bill and bare red skin on head and throat . |
| 12 | In autumn 1978 the Labour government announced a commitment to give social services responsibilities , and perhaps those of the education service , to the largest of the district councils . |
| 13 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 14 | Data General aims to hit what it figures is the largest of the imaging markets : the turnkey multi-user arena . |
| 15 | DG aims to hit what it figures is the largest of the imaging markets : the turnkey multiuser arena . |
| 16 | In the final vote Gonchigdorj defeated Sanjaasurengiyn Dzorig , chief co-ordinator of the Mongolian Democratic Party ( MDP ) , the largest of the opposition parties . |
| 17 | Indeed , by the end of the study , the largest of the health districts within the county was beginning to establish family support teams alongside the developmental CMHTs in order , itself , to ensure that social casework support was available . |
| 18 | The great grey is one of the largest of the forest owls of Scandinavia , larger even than the snowy owl of the Arctic tundra , and one species we had little hope of finding unaided . |
| 19 | A string quintet played in the largest of the reception rooms , and guests spilled out into the garden in between light showers . |
| 20 | I was the greatest of the spell weavers and I was the most powerful enchanter they had ever known . ’ |
| 21 | Every American city had its multiplicity of freight stations , with more sidings , land , and staff lavished upon them than the greatest of the passenger terminals . |
| 22 | In the greatest of the Enlightenment philosophers ( notably Immanuel Kant , 1724–1804 ) the individual is seen as possessing ultimate worth and dignity . |
| 23 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 24 | It requires extra software , and the IBM XT emulator for the Acorn Archimedes with the ARM microprocessor using RISC architecture ( based on the original RISC I design ) runs slower than the Intel 8088 , the slowest of the PC processors , under the MS-DOS operating system.Also as RISCs are designed with high-level languages in mind , designing in assembly is very tedious unlike assembly programming with CISCs where there are instructions for complex tasks and so programming is relatively simple and , as a result , less time-consuming . |
| 25 | When the harem-masters become too old or too sick , new overlords will emerge from the strongest in the bachelor groups and will take over the females . |
| 26 | Eventually Rosie , the youngest of the nursery maids , pushed the door open a fraction , a handkerchief to her face . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's a warning , ’ said Alexander Alexandrovich Vasily , the youngest of the Politburo members , a writer by profession and the first non-politician on the ruling body . |
| 28 | We know that a nation 's sense of its own identity can become bound up with material objects , the identity of the British with the Crown Jewels , that of the Greeks with the Elgin Marbles , that of the people of Hungary with the Crown of Stephen . |
| 29 | Top-line caddying was at first only part-time for Dave , although even a part-time career brought him face to face with the second of the twin imposters , disaster , in 1971 at the Open championship at Royal Birkdale . |
| 30 | The second of the AEP programmes was radically different in both philosophy and structure from the first . |