Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researches into Border ballads were to lead to the composition of Scott 's immensely popular Lay of the Last Minstrel . |
| 2 | Vols. 1 & 2 consist of the two Janźček Cypresses ( ) and the two Smetana Quartets with some Dvořák miniatures ) . |
| 3 | Few know of the hard and unremitting labour of editing he has always been prepared to do , and for which there is so often so little proper recognition . |
| 4 | These consist of the two Archbishops ( of York and Canterbury ) , the three senior bishops ( of London , Durham and Winchester ) plus 21 others . |
| 5 | The importance of the study of elites , as a way of assessing political attitudes and change , is well established , but there is little know of the social background of the members of Indonesia 's parliamentary bodies , the People 's Representative Council and the Supreme Deliberative Assembly . |
| 6 | To judge from Egypt , the traditional bell-wether of the Arab flock , they are failing to do so . |
| 7 | We all know of the hon. Gentleman 's concern for environmental protection and for tropical and rain forests , but the article in The Guardian — I stress , The Guardian — drew attention to the fact that the proposal was to take only 20 cu m of wood per hectare , which is only eight trees , every 20 years . |
| 8 | We all know of the dramatic effects of the venoms of snakes and spiders , the savage stings of wasps and jellyfish and the virulent poisons of scorpions and stingrays , but there are many other examples in the animal kingdom and some of them are even more lethal . |
| 9 | Coenwulf now wanted London to supersede both Lichfield and Canterbury as the single metropolitan see of the southern province in accordance with the plan of Pope Gregory I , and was therefore concerned to minimize any argument for more than one archbishopric based on territorial extent ; Pope Leo , on the other hand , was anxious to disassociate the papacy and his predecessor , Hadrian I , from complicity with Offa in acting against Canterbury for so base a reason as Offa 's antagonism to the people of Kent . |