Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Wilson is the best of the homegrowns . |
| 2 | ‘ Our kind is the greatest of the birds that fly in this land , ’ she explained . |
| 3 | Greed is the least of the problems , though the administration was not amused when Israel pushed its luck by suggesting that to help with its Gulf expenses — missile damage , the cost of the prolonged military alert , loss of tourism and so on — America might like to double the $3 billion it already gives Israel each year . |
| 4 | A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries . |
| 5 | The Association of Women of El Salvador ( founded in 1979 ) , is the largest of the women 's organizations which support the FDR-FMLN : |
| 6 | Verzenay is the largest of the grands crus and is the best growth on the northern slopes of the Montagne de Reims . |
| 7 | Vertus , at the southern end of the Côte des Blancs , is the largest of the grands and premiers crus . |
| 8 | The lesser rorqual ( or minke , as it is called in Norway ) is the largest of the cetaceans likely to be met with in inshore water around Shetland . |
| 9 | Albireo is the faintest of the stars in the X , and is further away from the centre of the pattern , marked by Gamma ; but to compensate for this , Albireo is the loveliest double in the sky , with a golden-yellow primary and a 5.4-magnitude blue companion . |
| 10 | And one of one of the things that I 've got on a regular basis is the many of the things Harlow Council put on like pop concerts country and western have actually been used by people who who perhaps live outside of Harlow so the Council are now looking at a charging policy but also we should also gon na introduce into the theatre is the leisure card which actually includes that the people actually live in the town local and the reproductional sort of show if they can do so they should buy . |
| 11 | The mallard is the first of the ducks to swop dowdy eclipse plumage for breeding plumage : bottle-green head , curly tail , white neck ring , rusty breast and blue speculum . |
| 12 | That rule , which is the first of the rules dealing with Lautro 's intervention powers , authorises the board : ‘ In any case where it appears to them that it is desirable in the interests of investors … ’ to exercise their powers of intervention . |
| 13 | Step IV " Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves " is the first of the steps involved in " cleaning house " and in learning to see one 's self as one really is — the good as well as the bad . |
| 14 | Sir David goes further in dismissing the scheme , saying that Granada is in no position to talk , having , as he says , a particular problem because , ‘ in many ways it is the weakest of the regions in its regional news coverage . ’ |
| 15 | Étréchy is the smallest of the premiers crus , its two tiny patches of vines situated north-west of the village , on gentle south and south-west-facing slopes , at an elevation of between 170 and 180 metres . |
| 16 | This is the simplest of the systems available . |
| 17 | GAME BOY £69.99 , Nintendo THIS far outsells the rest , and yet technically is the worst of the hand-helds . |
| 18 | Banbury Lane , now in part a main motor road , is the oldest of the roads on the map , though there is little about it today to indicate its great antiquity . |
| 19 | Former Coronation Street star Jean Alexander , 64 , is the youngest of the regulars in the new series of The Last of the Summer Wine . |
| 20 | There is good reason to suppose that St.John 's is the latest of the Gospels to be written . |
| 21 | ( Aside to the PLAYER , who is the last of the TRAGEDIANS . ) |
| 22 | It is the last of the merostomes the group of fossil horseshoe crabs that were varied and numerous in the coal swamps of the Carboniferous and have a history that extends back to the Cambrian . |
| 23 | Which is the smaller of the portables ? |