Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 2 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 3 | In the most possible of the hotels — it goes by the name of Toppin — all the rooms are taken by seven o'clock . |
| 4 | What was to prove the most far-reaching of the changes introduced in the July 1951 cabinet was the elevation to ministerial rank of Admiral Carrero Blanco 's position as director of the office of the head of government ; and the one which best exemplified the combination of new and old , change and ossification , was the creation of a Ministry of Information and Tourism . |
| 5 | John McIlroy , most persistent of the critics , argues that |
| 6 | Scientists talk in terms of ‘ generations ’ of computers , and the most advanced of the machines in operation at the moment are of the fourth generation . |
| 7 | As for Unix , that is a time-tested , used and abused system that is one of the most stable of the platforms currently available ’ he says . |
| 8 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 9 | I was particularly taken by Debra Gillett as the likeable innocent who takes some hard knocks before the night is out , while Danny Webb offers a memorable portrait of the sharpest and most driven of the salesmen , cruelly torn between elation at his own success and a growing awareness of just how grubby the whole operation is . |
| 10 | From this and other types of experiment , it is beyond dispute that , even by the most rigid of the criteria used by mammalian psychologists , Drosophila show not merely habituation and sensitization but classical and operant conditioning based on visual , olfactory and even touch cues . |
| 11 | Of the covenants by the tenant running with the land that " to pay rent or taxes " and " not to assign or underlet , " and by the landlord running with the reversion , " to renew the lease " are the most apposite of the instances which he quotes from decided cases . |
| 12 | However , perhaps the most interesting of the inhibitors from my point of view was introduced by Reinhard Jork , working with Hans-Jurgen Matthies of Magdeburg , in what was then still East Germany . |
| 13 | They are one of the most interesting of the Tanganyikans , as they are biparental mouthbrooders . |
| 14 | The most distinguished of the signatories was Mr Corneliu Manescu , former Romanian foreign minister and president of the UN General Assembly . |
| 15 | And anyway she 's rather fond of the chameleons herself . |
| 16 | It is the most transparent of the fictions it espouses , and is as unrealistic as it is unfair . |
| 17 | And they were so contemptuous of the Nazis and their cohorts they could not imagine that they themselves featured in the minds and machinations of such louts . |
| 18 | But the Reverend was fiercely repressive of the children 's spirit , the food was very poor and the girls were often starved and cold . |
| 19 | Her mother , although of the mentality that refuses such places because of the price of the uniform , was luckily not in a social or financial position where she could reasonably do so , and although she was often unreasonable enough , she did not like to appear to be so in the eyes of the whole neighbourhood , so she constrained her parsimony and her innate distrust in education into selecting the less distinguished of the schools available , on the grounds that the bus fare was cheaper . |
| 20 | As I said , we think that even some of the less sane of the lunatics would like to leave the madhouse if they could . |
| 21 | Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall . |
| 22 | He had never before met a woman so entirely free of the constraints which he had come to associate with being female . |
| 23 | He was lighting another cigarette , apparently oblivious of the elements . |
| 24 | He mumbled in a vague , harassed way , ‘ She 's got so fond of the kids . |
| 25 | He had slept well , entirely oblivious of the thunderstorms that Edith told him somewhat reproachfully had kept her sleepless an night . |
| 26 | Some artists become so resentful of the conventionalities that come with the signal — the imposition , as it is said , of a merely ‘ arty ’ atmosphere — that they consciously take their work to other , ‘ more normal ’ places . |
| 27 | It was travelling at high speed and the boys thought it was going to hit them , the rider was crouched over the bars obviously unaware of the boys . |
| 28 | I was very sceptical and , being almost entirely ignorant of the truths of Theosophy , thought Theosophists mad in their beliefs . |
| 29 | The intellectuals were much less ignorant of the concerns of peasants and workers than this view implies . |
| 30 | Yet many party supporters were outraged by this betrayal of the Whig tradition , and the very fact that the issue of liberty of conscience could now be given a low priority in the party agenda is perhaps indicative of the beginnings of the process whereby Whiggery was to divorce itself from the cause of Dissent . |