Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United should have killed York off then … they had more of the ball and the best of the chances … even York manager reckons that Hereford are a better team than their league position suggests and he was happy with a draw … the equaliser came after 33 minutes a header from John Borthwick … one all … what now for United … |
| 2 | City had more play and the best of the chances , but they only took one . |
| 3 | North had charge of several covert operations , many of which are still secret ; his brief included counter-terrorism , as well as the sending of arms to Iran and the resupply of the contras . |
| 4 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 5 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 6 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |
| 7 | The latest , and the largest of the takeovers came last week with the offer of £1.1bn by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance company , for Pearl Group , a leading British life insurer . |
| 8 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 9 | Here was the source of the Committee members ' indecision and the second of the factors which decided the matter in Franco 's favour . |
| 10 | He payed for the education of children from the families who could n't afford it , and the ablest of the children he sent to university . |
| 11 | I have suggested that we use Maa with subtitles ( I am thinking of Dances With Wolves and The Last of the Mohicans ) . |
| 12 | Cardiff watched as the three policemen on the cordon-barrier lifted the wooden pole and the last of the police cars slid past and vanished into the storm . |
| 13 | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton 's father was Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton , first Baron Lytton as distinct from first Earl , and wrote some massive novels including Eugene Aram ( 3 vols. 1832 ) , The Last Days of Pompeii ( 3 vols. 1834 ) , The Caxtons ( 3 vols. 1849 ) and The Last of the Barons ( 1843 ) . |
| 14 | He stumped off , in search of split infinitives and incorrect usages of the adverb ‘ hopefully ’ , and the Last of the Hippies picked up his Moonchild or Starbeam or whatever , and calmed her down . |
| 15 | I mean Jim went to work at one o'clock and the last of the kids went home , I 've had my dinner |
| 16 | THREE-quarters of the track including half the through lines , the semaphore signals , the last vestiges of freight facilities and the last of the men who used proudly to work for the old railway company have gone , yet the long-distance service is faster , more frequent and above all better used than at any time in railway history , and the number of passengers passing through probably at an all time high . |
| 17 | Cardiff turned away from the rain-streaked window as the policemen on cordon-duty lifted the wooden pole and the last of the cars slid away into the night . |
| 18 | Now once the benefits were approved er by the Trust Deed and er bearing in mind that the Chairman at that meeting informed the Trustee and I quote in determining the structure of the scheme the company was prepared to enter into consultation with the Trade Unions and Trustees , but this was a consultative process only and not a subject for negotiation ; and their company then went on to seek the er er the transfer of the present contributing members er er and a hundred of the members agreed er to transfer into that new scheme . |
| 19 | ‘ Ray Wilkins is still a tremendous influence in midfield , and a few of the players Gerry has introduced have really blossomed . |
| 20 | Accordingly , accompanied by Emil and a few of the others , I carried my bags to the coffee shop where everyone immediately ordered huge carrot cakes , the speciality of the house , as if they were in fear of famine . |
| 21 | In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time . |
| 22 | On top of it there were all the fruits of the forest , the animals of the plain , and a few of the beasts of the sea for good measure . |
| 23 | Over by the birch trees , Mervyn Finch had started to play his squeezebox to Vera ‘ Got All the Things There ’ Loomis , and a few of the adults were dancing the old dances that have been passed down for nearly 200 years . |
| 24 | A number of us went to that presentation the minister , the church secretary , myself , and the treasurer at the time and a few of the elders . |
| 25 | Many of the articles bore hand-painted scenes and a few of the painters became famous later as artists . |
| 26 | Only half of the men and a third of the women had indulged in intercourse before their twentieth birthday and only about two thirds before their twenty-fourth birthday . |
| 27 | Of the other large groups of courses , PGCE Primary students on between a quarter and a third of the courses received little on The Language of Specialist Subjects , Standard Language , Accent and Dialect , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research . |
| 28 | Each and every one of the bids however they refer to particular minority groups , whether they refer to the group are I think , justifiable . |
| 29 | There is only the conductor-CEO — and every one of the musicians plays directly to that person without an inter-mediary . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) None of the sub-clauses of this Clause and none of the objects therein specified shall be deemed subsidiary or ancillary to any of the objects specified in any other such sub-clause , and the Company shall have as full a power to exercise each and every one of the objects specified in each sub-clause of this Clause as though each sub-clause contained the objects of a separate Company . |