Example sentences of "[prep] the [adv] beautiful " in BNC.

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1 FOR OVER 25 YEARS ALITEX HAVE DESIGNED AND BUILT SUPERIOR STRUCTURES FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY .
2 Last November ; we began our search for The Most Beautiful Hair of the Year in conjunction with Supersoft .
3 ‘ I come to buy flowers and fruit for the most beautiful woman in London … the actress Bathsheba Rebecca . ’
4 My sincere thanks to you all for the most beautiful flowers that were sent to me in hospital during my recent operation .
5 Rachel stepped out of the way as the engimatically beautiful Miss Mei-Ling walked into the office and closed the door behind her .
6 It was immediately described , by no less a personage than Maria Theresa , the hand of the Habsburgs in Milan , as the most beautiful theatre in the world , — an ambitious claim .
7 For instance , when Paris designated the wanton APHRODITE as the most beautiful of the goddesses , Hera 's morals were affronted and she arranged for the Trojan Wars to occur as just recrimination for the slight .
8 Its reputation as the most beautiful bay on the west coast of Scotland has developed in recent years , not fostered by press and media publicity but by the enthusiastic recommendations of those who have been there .
9 The separation is 35 seconds of arc , and in any small telescope the two make a lovely spectacle ; I always regard Albireo as the most beautiful double in the entire sky .
10 The Hotel Bamby is splendidly placed for easy access to what has been described as the most beautiful of the gentle Adriatic beaches .
11 Hanging near the Ardebil in the Victoria and Albert Museum is another magnificent 16th-century Persian carpet , known as the Chelsea carpet because it was found in an antique shop in Chelsea , and regarded by many scholars as the most beautiful carpet ever made .
12 She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World .
13 The reservoir behind it , Lake Powell ( or ‘ Lake Foul ’ as it is called by environmentalists , who think it dishonours his name ) flooded 186 miles of Grand Canyon , which Powell and others who saw it described as the most beautiful of all the West 's river canyons .
14 Faustus is asked by a group of fellow scholars to summon Helen as the most beautiful woman of antiquity .
15 Unfortunately in Perk 's case , her innocence leads to her death after on her way to school wearing her yellow dress , she pops into see her Godmother who is often referred to as the most beautiful woman around and has beautiful skin , a good body and lovely thick dark curly hair .
16 Rarely seen works such as the very beautiful ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ from Geneva and the bust of Cicognara from the cemetery in Ferrara ( one of Canova 's very last works ) form part of the extraordinary range of loans assembled .
17 The Franks have been up mountains and down valleys , floated around idyllic lakes and cruised through the staggeringly beautiful ( see The Prisoner -meets-Brothers Grimm ) town of Salzburg , they 've even mimed in a restaurant hall which provides the definitive ‘ Sound Of Music Dinner Show ’ , during which tourists can dine on ‘ cream-coloured ponies ’ .
18 With Karajan we have the mythology of the suffocatingly beautiful sound and , beyond that , the ad hominem fantasies briefly alluded to above .
19 One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person .
20 One of the most beautiful uses of pas de bourrée courus is when Ashton places his danseuse in her partner 's arms as she floats over the surface of the floor as if in a dream like ecstasy .
21 One of the most beautiful is probably that of Odette in the Act II pas de deux of Swan Lake when , overcoming her fear at being captured , she turns her head and deliberately looks into Siegfried 's eyes .
22 If he did this , Pound missed a great deal , for Aubeterre is one of the most beautiful and delightfully peaceful places in the whole of old Aquitaine .
23 ‘ That , ’ she said , her voice echoing with the cries of oystercatchers and lapwings over remote beaches where seals rolled and basked inshore , ‘ That is one of the most beautiful films ever made . ’
24 The trip is one of the most beautiful I have known .
25 These are The Backwoods , one of the most beautiful and inaccessible regions of the US .
26 Another Japanese who attracts me today is the unattainable sumo wrestler Kirishima , from Kagoshima in Kyushu , who is one of the most beautiful males I have ever seen .
27 The 1976 Salzburg Easter Festival Lohengrin , the designs based on fourteenth-century illuminated manuscripts and lit with a rare luminous aura , must rank as one of the most beautiful of all Wagner productions in recent memory , ; but , in a sense , it is invidious to single out this rather than the Ring or the Tristan , the Parsifal , or even the menacingly spectacular designs , half real , half fantastic , for the 1982 production of Der fliegende Holländer .
28 One of the most beautiful experiences of my life was being able to play the Tenth Symphony for Shostakovich when we last visited Moscow .
29 On a video-film made at Highlander entitled ‘ Save our Land and People , ’ a variety of these groups speak to each other about their own problems and possible solutions , hopes and fears , and I think it is no accident that some of the most beautiful music and evocative songs which I have heard for a long time comes from these people .
30 Miller concluded this letter to Alston with a note on his own intentions — to add figures to supplement the Dictionary — ‘ my scheme is to give the characters of each Genus after the manner of Tournefort , which are all drawn from the growing plants and then to add , one , two , or more plants of the most beautiful , useful or rare species of each Genus . ’
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