Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 2 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 3 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
| 4 | They said if we did n't consent for him to claim for the two of us , they 'd summons me and him for aiding and abetting . |
| 5 | ‘ A Christmas-shopping outing to East Kilbride was arranged for the elderly of the parish , with transport , tea and coffee laid on ’ . |
| 6 | Hyman got between the two of them , begging , ‘ Do n't hit him , Charlie . ’ |
| 7 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 8 | Latinos account for a third of its 9m odd residents . |
| 9 | Currently , hydrocarbons account for a third of Norway 's gross exports , 15 per cent of revenue and 17 per cent of Gross National Product . |
| 10 | One presumes Waterloo then asked for the best of three for just qualifying for Bath is worth a minimum of £1,500 . |
| 11 | FAXgrabber made about a tenth of the errors . |
| 12 | The presenter drained off the last of her gin and tonic and clinked the ice in the bottom of her glass . |
| 13 | Wood is the most important commodity in international trade after gas and petrol , though most of it is used in the country of origin and much of it very close to source , being the only source of fuel for warmth and cooking for a third of the developing world . |
| 14 | You 've now all seen a project quality plan , but I 'd just like to go through a few of the headings just to advise you where I think the benefits lie . |
| 15 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 16 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 17 | And you , my dear Mary , respected though your name is — you are insufficiently regarded as the first of that invaluable breed , preceeding them by at least one whole generation ! |
| 18 | Painting , 1927 , by Joan Miro , the Spanish painter regarded as the greatest of all Surrealist abstract artists . |
| 19 | Saatchi 's extremely active deaccessioning has caused a stir partly because so many major artists and dealers have a personal stake in his collection - and have , in some cases , risen to prominence as his collection has expanded -but also because his collection is almost unanimously regarded as the greatest of its kind in existence . |
| 20 | Malinowski is usually regarded as the greatest of these researchers , at least as far as his methods are concerned . |
| 21 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 22 | Alas , Castle Master , though widely regarded as the best of the Freescape games , suffers from the similar snail-paced somnambulance as its soporific stablemates . |
| 23 | Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds . |
| 24 | I nearly died laughing when Alfonso , a community leader from one of the barrios was describing how his community is regarded as the lowest of the low , and the people often referred to as ‘ the underclass ’ . |
| 25 | According to Philo of Alexandria , a first-century Graeco-Judaic philosopher who wrote many works that still survive , including commentaries on the Old Testament , fifty was regarded as the holiest of numbers and ‘ the principle of the generation of the universe ’ ( De vita contemplativa , 65 ) . |
| 26 | It is regarded as the finest of the Cambridge college bridges ; an achievement to which the architect may have been spurred by the old St. John 's bridge , a masterpiece by Wren , barely 20 yards downstream . |
| 27 | The Arch of Titus , Rome ( A.D. 81 ) is generally regarded as the finest of the extant triumphal arches , particularly of the single arched design . |
| 28 | So he is caught between the two of them , embarrassed to welcome his guest and unable to say more on the phone . |
| 29 | However , her books , though absorbing to the adult reader , are difficult to revive for the young of another generation because of their preoccupation ( even greater than that of her female contemporaries ) with social status . |
| 30 | Clearly we have come through the worst of the recession . |