Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] [prep] the [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 | That , in many ways , was the least of the problems . |
| 5 | ‘ In many ways , Clinton 's victory was the least of the unknowns facing the market , ’ said Ian Amstad , economist at Bankers Trust in London . |
| 6 | Birth was the least of the requirements for co-option to this introverted community . |
| 7 | There inside the den was the first of the cubs . |
| 8 | Colman 's regiment was the first of the territorials to serve with the regular army in France after the outbreak of World War I , and he was severely wounded by shrapnel in the leg , acquiring the limp which he was to spend much of the remainder of his life and career attempting , often in considerable pain , to conceal from audiences and cameras alike . |
| 9 | The collaboration was then inaugurated at Marble Hill , Twickenham ( 1724–9 ) , which was the first of the buildings credited to Lord Herbert , and it was continued at most , if not all , of his subsequent works — including amongst others the White Lodge , Richmond Park ( 1727–8 ) for King George II and the Palladian bridge at his own seat of Wilton House , Wiltshire ( 1736–7 ) . |
| 10 | houseman and Gwenellen 's fiancé , was the first of the surgeons to arrive in Marcus for his night round . |
| 11 | That was the first of the combines . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Assumption C , ‘ the maintenance of employment and the prevention of mass unemployment ’ , was the third of the Assumptions in his report . |
| 14 | It was the same for the Germans . |
| 15 | It was the same in the vineyards there : production of wine had almost ceased during the war years ; acres had been decimated by disease ; attempts at post-war wine production had been sporadic and ill-organised . |
| 16 | The final yesterday was the last under the auspices of the Men 's Tennis Council , which had controlled the Grand Prix circuit since 1970 . |
| 17 | Gorias was the last of the Cities to fall , and even mortals remember it . |
| 18 | He was the last of the Americans loyal to the city when New York was assuming its predominant role in the contemporary art world . |
| 19 | In France itself the Valois family had good dynastic reasons for wishing to see Isabella removed from France and embroiled in English domestic politics : Charles IV was the last of the Capetians in the direct male line , and the question of Isabella 's title to the throne , or her right to pass the title to her son , might soon arise . |
| 20 | It was the last of the cigarettes . |
| 21 | He was the last of the brothers ; whether or not he had any part in their deaths he could be the key to a clearer understanding of the two who had died . |
| 22 | She was the tallest of the girls , and in some ways she was as strong as a man . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One of the questions erm , there was a one of the categories was quiz shows so I thought well I , I do n't , I wo n't do very well here cos I just do n't watch enough and one of the questions was , who was the helper on erm My , on Take Your Pick ? |
| 25 | It was a left-over from the days when an admiral , who had spent the greater part of his life in debt to Gieves , none the less had the matter on his conscience and despaired of dying in that state . |
| 26 | He had won a US Open and a Masters title in great style , and their affair was a natural for the pages of the world 's newspapers . |
| 27 | There was a few in the lads they were just did n't want to do this picket line . |
| 28 | It was no easier for the mourners , at Kelly 's parish church of St Mary 's , in Newent , Gloucestershire , with Once In Royal David 's City and the poignant The Colours of the Day . |
| 29 | The block in which I lived was no different from the others in that tight area of mean dilapidated streets . |