Example sentences of "[adj -est] of [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back with Miss Maine I was shown what was thought to be the trickiest of all the work I must do . |
| 2 | This is exemplified by the quotation from Horace , which he used as a motto , and was the longest of all the mottoes used by competitors to identify their work . |
| 3 | The twin city of Ankh-Morpork , foremost of all the cities bounding the Circle Sea , was as a matter of course the home of a large number of gangs , thieves ' guilds , syndicates and similar organisations . |
| 4 | The greatest of all the world 's waters , of course , are the oceans ; and they are the subject of the next chapter . |
| 5 | Taken all in all , though , it must be seen as the greatest of all the pending threats to present day life . |
| 6 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 7 | After education at Oxford , he became the greatest of all the priors at Bridlington . |
| 8 | The vernal equinox was the greatest of all the Celtic seasonal festivals , since it signalled the rebirth of vegetation in the cycle of death and rebirth . |
| 9 | After outlining the origins of the art in Ancient Rome , she concentrates on the greatest of all the manufactories , those of Grand Ducal Florence . |
| 10 | You are the greatest of all the galaxies ! |
| 11 | In 1670 Colbert , the greatest of all the finance ministers of Louis XIV , organised the despatch to the Turkish capital of a number of very young French boys for the same purpose , while Greek Christian youths were brought to Paris to be educated in the Collège de Louis-le-Grand . |
| 12 | Dessie … one of the greatest of all the Gold Cup winners was in town to get the racing week off to a flying start … |
| 13 | This is probably the largest of all the categories of cheeses and it encompasses many of the traditional British varieties ( see The Great British Eight , p86 ) as well as continental cheeses such as Edam , Chaumes and Pyrenees . |
| 14 | After Verzenay , the vineyard of Ambonnay is the second largest of all the grands crus . |
| 15 | King penguins are the second largest of all the penguin tribe , only exceeded in size by the emperor penguin which breeds on the sea ice of the cold Antarctic continent . |
| 16 | The alternative focus to the harbour in Saint-Jean is the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste , which must be the largest of all the Basque churches . |
| 17 | The largest of all the manuscript collections , the nearly 300 pieces of the so-called ‘ Fitzwilliam Virginal Book ’ compiled by a Catholic recusant , Francis Tregian , probably between 1609 and 1619 , gives a very fair cross-section . |
| 18 | To these might be added the enigmatic , though incomplete , courtyard building at Corbridge , which , at 65.5 by 67 m ( 214 by 219 ft ) , would have been one of the largest of all the structures in the small towns . |
| 19 | The Algerian Foreign Ministry said on Jan. 17 said that the war " imposed " on the " fraternal Iraqi people " had been " forcefully rejected " , and the largest of all the protest demonstrations took place in Algiers , where a march organized by the fundamentalist Front Islamique du Salut ( FIS ) on Feb. 1 reportedly involved 400,000 people . |
| 20 | Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls . |
| 21 | Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions . |
| 22 | This series of Czech quartet discs is among the finest of all the Lindsay 's recording projects to date . |
| 23 | But the finest of all the variegated grasses must surely be Holcus mollis , with snow-white stripes . |
| 24 | The only fantasia in Parthenia is Gibbons 's ‘ of foure parts ’ , which is appropriate for it is one of the finest of all the keyboard fantasias . |
| 25 | For his own successor he suggested Rohde , " the ablest of all the younger philologists I have known " , and with a disarming naivety he added : " I can not express how profoundly my life here in Basle would be alleviated by the presence of my best friend . " |
| 26 | The American naturalist William T. Hornaday gives this excellent description of the reptile : ‘ Gharials are the smoothest of all the large crocodiles I have been privileged to handle . |
| 27 | Tintern Abbey , one of the loveliest of all the ruined British monasteries , surrounded by a tree-covered landscape of wild natural beauty . |
| 28 | IN my opinion the loveliest of all the dales , Dentdale is also the most secluded , cut off both by the hills which hem its stern and western ends and by the narrowness of the roads that lead in and out of it . |
| 29 | To human eyes , they were the strangest of all the newcomers of those days . |
| 30 | ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words . |