Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] [adj -est] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the finest of the pieces Maria had bought , the work of a master . |
| 2 | Selwyn was the smallest of the colleges of the University , also its students lived in , and during my three years the number of students never exceeded 150 . |
| 3 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 4 | A ramshackle despotism encourages irresponsibility ; there was always a chance of success and it was the weakest of the conspiracies — that of 1820 — which defeated the government . |
| 5 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 6 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |