Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moscow hoped to rally the opposition of the Non-Aligned against these developments by linking them to the Camp David Agreement and to Israeli policy . |
| 2 | Air is one of the best of all insulators against heat loss when not allowed to circulate , so , between them , these two layers provide a high degree of protection from the biting cold . |
| 3 | He wanted , from his own point of view , as much as he could get of the best of both worlds . |
| 4 | What is initially posed as a choice between two mutually exclusive alternatives becomes that between the exclusion of serious values and the inclusion of the best of both worlds . |
| 5 | There is now overwhelming evidence that the UK is actually losing most of the best of these researchers . |
| 6 | In its monumental form this was not to mark a grave but to be a prize in the games and other competitions at festivals in the great sanctuaries of Greece ; especially Olympia , where the games were traditionally founded in 776 B.C. and where most of the best of these vessels have been found dedicated . |
| 7 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 8 | One of the earliest of these settlements was on the island of Torcello on the Venetian Lagoon , and nearby Venice was established later . |
| 9 | He had championed the cause of the poor for many years in a series of investigative articles , and had highlighted the terrible conditions in which a large proportion of the ordinary Dublin people lived . |
| 10 | One of the terms of the Economic Opportunity Act required " the maximum feasible participation " of the poor in all programmes . |
| 11 | Matthew 25 : 35–40 ’ … whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine , you did for me . ’ |
| 12 | Then came the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars , and it was not until the famous wine classification of 1855 that the wines of Bordeaux were established as the some of the greatest of all wines in the world many believe the greatest . |
| 13 | One of the greatest of all sports car road races ever run , the Mille Miglia was first held in 1927 and , by tradition , cars set off at one-minute intervals from the centre of Brescia , raced down to Rome and returned . |
| 14 | Personifications of the Ultimate in such forms as Rāma and Kr a have to be regarded as symbols which manifest man 's craving for the Unseen for what suits one man does not necessarily meet the needs of another . |
| 15 | You are regarded by many competent judges as one of the finest of all conductors of the music of Verdi and Puccini , which is a rare distinction for an Austrian- or German-born conductor . |
| 16 | Male Ostriches often look after the young , forming ‘ herds ’ of the young from several nests . |
| 17 | Certainly in the case of the first of those conditions the present appellants would find themselves in considerable difficulty . |
| 18 | In one of the first of these surveys ( of the fourth and fifth year curriculum in secondary schools ) in 1979 , the HMI noted that secondary teachers made wide use of ‘ heavily directed teaching , a preponderance of dictated or copied notes , and emphasis on the giving and recall of information , with little room or time for enquiry or explanation of applications ’ . |
| 19 | Of the first of these developments one of the earliest examples was the publication in Sweden from 1824 onwards of a list of the country 's consuls and vice-consuls . |
| 20 | The foregoing discussion of investment planning represents an essay in definition of the first of these conditions within the context of British capitalism ; I now turn to the second condition , and the relationship between the two . |
| 21 | Just try , if you can , the opening Moderato of the first of these concertos ( in B flat major ) and you will be tempted to explore further . |
| 22 | The truth of the first of these dicta is easy to see : any change may make matters worse rather than better ; only in a system which is as bad as it can possibly be , can change be introduced which must be beneficial . |
| 23 | Consideration of the first of these categories will hold over to the next section . |
| 24 | A typical instance of the second of these rules is : |
| 25 | One of the strangest of these rituals we were to witness only by chance . |
| 26 | I 'm not at all sure about the relevance of the last of these qualifications to the proceedings this evening but I am sure that all the other qualifications and all the rest of the experience conspire to make John Cruikshank an eminently suitable lecturer on our subject for tonight , which is ‘ Proust : Novelist and Explorer ’ . |
| 27 | Whatever else the planners may have done , they have disastrously lost sight of the last of these objectives . |
| 28 | The week of 12 – 19 April provided decisive proof of the last of these considerations . |
| 29 | And I can say he had one of the strongest of all influences on me . |
| 30 | In 1975 , the year after the fall of Haile Selassie , and four years before the fall of the Shah , the witness of revolutions turned up in Angola for the abandonment of their colony by the Portuguese : the subject of the third of these books of his . |