Example sentences of "of [pron] [adj] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generally , he was certainly the most effective in making his mark abroad ; he was the most sought-after of them all in the European marriage market , which was both highly profitable and rewarding to morale when this Scottish king succeeded where an English one failed and Mary of Guise became James 's second wife , rather than Henry VIII 's fourth . |
| 2 | The magnificence of crinoline and the billowing hoop-skirt were certainly exciting an interest of their own in the mid-1850s , as something symptomatic of the extravagant optimism of the period . |
| 3 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 4 | When the Company entered the dynastic politics of southern India by putting forward a candidate of its own in the Carnatic , the French were soon able to drive him back to Trichinopoly and beseige him there . |
| 5 | More significant , it was not until after it ended that she began to possess permanent representatives of her own in the major capitals of Europe . |
| 6 | , left , and are certainly on top of it all in the steeping area . |
| 7 | A year earlier , David Damiani had married Blanche , an 18-year-old Nazareth girl , and set up a home of his own in the Arektenje district of Jaffa . |
| 8 | Still , Sisson managed a ‘ Herr Issyvoo ’ sting of his own in the Nazified Berlin of 1934 and watched ideological street-squads slanging one another in Paris the next year . |