Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Point size is the measured from the top of the ascender to the bottom of the descender . |
| 2 | Goal of the week ; the 17th of the season for hit man , Craig Maskell . |
| 3 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 4 | Sutton Manor was built during the 1820s as the residence of a retired British Indian Governor . |
| 5 | Family work , as in most social work , is often concerned with balancing the power of the strong with the rights of the weak . |
| 6 | The present Liszt disc is among the finest of the series to date . |
| 7 | Helmut Rumbler has a private German collection of Rembrandt prints , while Hill-Stone are bringing a ‘ superb ’ impression of Dürer 's ‘ Nativity ’ ( Meder 2b ) , which they describe as one of the finest on the market for many years . |
| 8 | It has five domes , the largest over the centre of the church and three are over the outer narthex ; all are raised on high drums . |
| 9 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 10 | The demonstrations were the largest since the start of hostilities in July 1991 , but observers noted that the turnouts were not as high as its organizers had hoped . |
| 11 | A single processor offers 86 MIPS , 75.4 SpecMarks and 78.1 AIMS , versus the largest of the systems with 344 MIPS and a record-setting 289.3 SPECthruput . |
| 12 | One near the site of Young 's War Office building , one on the site of the Admiralty extension and the largest on the site of the blocks of building at present occupied by the Treasury and the Foreign Office . |
| 13 | The new firm will be the largest in the UK with a fee income of more than £143m . |
| 14 | President Bush was admirably fast in identifying the problem inherited from the laissez faire Administration of his predecessor , and was quick to put together a $164billion rescue package — by far the largest in the history of finance . |
| 15 | California faced a budget deficit for 1991/92 of $14,300 million , the largest in the history of any state . |
| 16 | As sporadic violations of the Jan. 3 ceasefire continued in Croatia , preparations for the dispatch there of a 14,000-strong UN peacekeeping force , one of the largest in the history of the UN , went ahead in late February in accordance with a UN peace plan agreed in January [ see p. 38704 ] . |
| 17 | One of his mills was probably the largest in the country by the 1880s , though it seems not to have been a paper-mill when he acquired it . |
| 18 | The linen room is the largest in the centre of the east side top floor . |
| 19 | Not only is it the largest in the world in volume ( $11 billion in loans and grants in 1991 ) , but its untied ratio ( 79.7% in 1991 ) is the highest in the world . |
| 20 | Deal Castle was constructed by order of Henry VIII and is the largest in the network of Tudor coastal defences ; Walmer Castle , shaped like a Tudor rose , is the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports , who , at the present time , is Her Majesty the Queen Mother . |
| 21 | Excising the political from the life of the mind isaa sacrifice that has proven costly . |
| 22 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’ |
| 24 | It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money . |
| 25 | The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed . |
| 26 | Birth was the least of the requirements for co-option to this introverted community . |
| 27 | Now , one member of the joint traffic management sub-committee who has been closely associated with all of these three issues is county councillor Tony and I must say , Mr Mayor that I am surprised to say the least by the way in which councillor appears appears to have been treated by some members of the labour party in this city . |
| 28 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 29 | Roger , who was always in charge of the music , bad decided the party was ready for nostalgia — the 60s by the sound of it — someone , Maggie could n't remember who , was singing a song called ‘ Hats off to Larry ’ . |
| 30 | But the greatest of the ruins of mediaeval Delhi , the great fort of Tughlukabad , lay some six miles due east of my rooftop , virtually invisible now in the gathering darkness . |