Example sentences of "[adv] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ukraine called for the shutting down of all the reactors at the Chernobyl site in 1990 and urged that greater consideration be given to a new energy programme which eliminated nuclear power . |
| 2 | Perhaps of all the marquetry skills , the three veneer class brought out the most consistent high levels of artistic interpretation . |
| 3 | And perhaps of all the elements that can be used in a garden , water is the most fascinating . |
| 4 | Regardless of all the toing and froing in Christian periodicals regarding women in leadership roles , no one has ever come up with anything remotely convincing which would relieve husbands from the responsibility for the direction of their families . |
| 5 | Alone of all the top Bolsheviks , Kalinin visited some of the stricken areas by train , a peasant among peasants . |
| 6 | ‘ Patty alone of all the children felt that mamma was in that coffin , and that a new sadder life had begun for papa and herself . |
| 7 | Alone of all the men who now surrounded him , Tobie carried the knowledge that the son of Katelina van Borselen belonged to Nicholas . |
| 8 | At all events , John was singularly successful in the long run at turning his back on everything that smacked of Anglicanism ; he alone of all the Titford brothers managed to cold-shoulder St John 's church for everything except his marriage . |
| 9 | When the council had organized a festival to alert the people to the plight of Nicaragua , she alone of all the neighbours had climbed into the mobile coffee shop , which the council had provided , to drink Nicaraguan coffee and read the Nicaraguan posters which adorned the bulkheads and bulwarks of the van . |
| 10 | He alone of all the Lionisers was unmoved by illusions of great men . |
| 11 | Alone of all the nations attending Rio , the USA refused to sign the Convention , chiefly on the grounds that it would prejudice the success of the US biotechnology industry . |
| 12 | Alone of all the nations attending Rio , the USA refused to sign the Convention , chiefly on the grounds that it would prejudice the success of the US biotechnology industry . |
| 13 | I can not speak too highly of all the British people who have been in the northern part of Somalia seeking to give help and to assist . |
| 14 | Half term week goes so fast so of all the things we were gon na do this week . |
| 15 | Every so of ten the dog would break away and belt off to splash in the shallows or to investigate something smelly , thrown up by last night 's tide . |
| 16 | After an hour or so of this the group swam slowly and steadily away in a north-easterly direction along the Boston deeps , and they were watched following this course until the light failed . |
| 17 | It was Francois Bergot and Jan Martens who both suggested taking advantage of the gathering together of all the drawings for the book to present as many of them as possible to the public in a splendid exhibition . |
| 18 | The last decades of the nineteenth century saw the coming together of all the major themes of its sexual discourses : class pride and evangelism , moral certainty and social anxiety , the double standard and ‘ respectability ’ , prurience and moral purity . |
| 19 | I think it is a pulling together of all the strands , and even at that stage it will be a struggle . |
| 20 | ‘ I understand that you have known him longest of all the family ? ’ |
| 21 | The optical images are thus of half a planet . |
| 22 | The final stages of training amount to the handing over of all the responsibility for safety to the student . |
| 23 | Grado Cathedral , built on an island in the lagoon a few miles further south , is similar in design but the workmanship is not of such a high standard . |
| 24 | Marx 's abstractions were not of such an order , rather his abstractions were concrete historical ones . |
| 25 | But since " the people " are likely to be divided among themselves , the government is likely to be representative , not of all the people , but at best of a majority of them . |
| 26 | They knew more of their purpose here than they had been told , but not of all the details in the secret file in the safe in John Coffin 's flat . |
| 27 | And best of all the pictures that flew through her mind so happily as she jolted onwards was Michael Swinton 's gratitude and delight , how touched he would be that she had thought of him , how she would seem to him like some sort of Christmas spirit , glittering in a thousand jewels , her arms laden with bounty … |
| 28 | He said : ‘ While recognising that the allegations are made by a self-confessed IRA terrorist , they are nonetheless of such a serious nature that they demand full investigation . ’ |
| 29 | William Stirling , the Conservative MP for Perthshire , possibly of all the judges , conformed most closely to The Saturday Review 's ideal . |
| 30 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |