Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chatsworth is the grandest of gardens , with canals , fountains , cascades and magnificent glasshouses within a 1,000 park . |
| 2 | The Great Court of the Citadel of Famagusta was one hundred and sixty feet long , and built to accommodate the grandest of ceremonials . |
| 3 | This is a stunning world of peace and tranquility , an assortment of panoramic spectacles , where every sight is awesome , and all are on the grandest of scales . |
| 4 | Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners . |
| 5 | Not the nicest of things , no |
| 6 | Both Schwarzenegger as the nicest of guys and De Vito as a sneaky crook are surprisingly convincing and delightfully funny . |
| 7 | Mike said : ‘ I was n't told in the nicest of manners . |
| 8 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 9 | A second measure was also taken in this study which may provide information relevant to subjects ’ expectations , this was a measure of how well each subject previously knew the each of junctions in the films . |
| 10 | Black women live and work in the poorest of circumstances and confront the penalties of white racism as a matter of course in every aspect of their lives . |
| 11 | Even the poorest of communities have down through the years made great sacrifices to ensure that the ‘ House of God ’ has been kept neat , tidy and in a good state of repair . |
| 12 | In Wiltshire , the poorest of counties , winter rates of 6s ( 30p ) rose to 7s ( 35p ) in 1794 . |
| 13 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 14 | His demenour ( sic ) — he resembled the poorest of travellers in the last throes of sartorial disintegration — will also continue to present a massive career drawback for him . |
| 15 | In the kitchen , Aunt Margaret sat in her grey dress and vicious collar , sewing at the greek tunic with the finest of stitches . |
| 16 | He took the finest of lines round the trees at the 13th before hitting the green with a perfectly struck long iron for his four and then was in luck at the 14th . |
| 17 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 18 | Shaw said that his method was founded upon music , and this extraordinary , teetering play needs the finest of ears to balance its tones and pace its switchback rhythms . |
| 19 | When deciding on height/depth ratios , try to make treads at least 300mm ( 12″ ) deep , which is comfortable for all but the largest of feet ( unless you 're unlucky enough to take size 16s ! ) . |
| 20 | She felt the merest of touches on her hair and then she was being slowly turned around . |
| 21 | He felt her head give the merest of nods . |
| 22 | The other is Sir Colin Cowdrey who , as president of the International Cricket Council , has been playing the deadest of bats lately . |
| 23 | You addressed a visible problem but bear in mind that awful things can happen in the clearest of ponds if you do not use a test kit on a regular basis . |
| 24 | Provided the springboard doctrine is sensibly applied and injunctions granted only in the clearest of cases so that the recipient of the information is not effectively placed in a worse position than if he had not received it , the interests of both the supplier of the information and the recipient can be satisfied . |
| 25 | Her eyes were the clearest of blues ; her skin was flawless , without the faintest line to mar its perfection . |
| 26 | By the time of the spread of the railways in the second quarter of the nineteenth century , the industrial map of Britain was in its main outlines already drawn — a sequence unique in the history of industrialisation and the clearest of testimonies to the role of canals . |
| 27 | In a large field he did not have the clearest of runs as he challenged as a result of which he finished fast but too late having to settle for fourth place to the Ebor winner Quick Ransom . |
| 28 | She never noticed if Alexandra was fully dressed or had stumbled straight from sleep in her night clothes but would welcome her always with the sweetest of smiles and a gentle reproof for leaving her alone . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's the least of things . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Please , ca n't you do something for us ; we are nothing , the least of things , why should anyone pay any attention to us ? |