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

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1 An hour or so in the best of company , the bar is open , and all for £3 — what more can we do ?
2 And so to the first of our summer sporting specials .
3 And so to the last of the Sicilian references , 109/774 :
4 Both these elements are needed in an understanding of soil erosion conservation , but hitherto it is only the first which has usually been considered — and only in the first of the three location-specific senses at that .
5 Again the ball of flame rolled out but this time , as the dragon 's neck muscles contracted , its colour faded from orange to yellow , from yellow to white , and finally to the faintest of blues .
6 Lightning quick , fearless in the tackle and always in the thick of the action .
7 I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy .
8 After this the folk of Nagarythe became ever more desperate , relying more and more on the blackest of sorceries for their defence .
9 GEORGE Loughlin , of Making Space , will be giving advice on schizophrenia at Ellesmere Port council offices on June 15 between 10am and 3pm in the first of a series of events organised by the Community Health Council .
10 And now to the third of our special reports to find out what businesses from our region are learning from the Florida experience .
11 Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side .
12 That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security .
13 Meyers ( 1974 , 1978 ) pioneered cement stratigraphy , demonstrating that ‘ zones ’ of carbonate cements , as revealed by their CL and other petrographic characteristics , could be correlated both vertically and regionally in the Mississippian of the Sacramento Mountains , New Mexico .
14 And with the millions of insects buzzing , crawling , flying and swimming about , all needing to communicate with their own kind and with other associated species , but not with the millions of other creatures , this would seem to be essential to avoid confusion .
15 The Castle is renowned not only for its service and hospitality but also for the excellent of its cuisine .
16 I would urge anybody thinking of commercial diving to benefit not just from my experience , but also from the dozens of other commercial divers I know and have heard from .
17 This can be restored by collecting litter , but even on the fastest of three levels it should n't be a problem .
18 ‘ Sometimes he would try it in the evening but never during the dead of night . ’
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