Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present Liszt disc is among the finest of the series to date . |
| 2 | The finest in the series is that at Stoke d'Abernon , Surrey , to Elyn Bray , who died in 1516 . |
| 3 | When Warner Bros , the company with which she had signed an exclusive long-term contract , squandered her potential during the Thirties in a series of amusing but , for her , unfulfilling potboilers ( eg Fashions of 1934 , The Big Shakedown , Jimmy the Gent , Fog over Frisco ) , she took the unprecedented step of departing for England , where she could continue working outside of American jurisdiction . |
| 4 | I THOUGH Esquire 's disastrous date with Kylie Minogue was the funniest in the series . |
| 5 | The taller of the pair was chewing on a chicken leg and leaning on a sword that was only marginally shorter than the average man . |
| 6 | Other pranks included a chair which , when sat upon , pinned down the unwary with a pair of mechanical arms : another was a slipper placed upon the floor which , when kicked , caused a weird and ghostly apparition to arise . |
| 7 | If the maximum number of cells in a row of the grid is 30 and if there are 30 rows , a dice could be thrown six times and the outcomes totalled to get the row coordinate , and six times for the column coordinate using the convention that the six on the dice is interpreted as zero . |
| 8 | It is the 33rd in the series of Bartholomew walking guides . |
| 9 | Please turn to page 366 of the Old Testament section of the Bibles ; today we have the second of a series of sermons about the life of Elisha . |
| 10 | The conductor was David Thomas , whose In Nubibus , the second of the series , was a highlight of last year 's festival . |
| 11 | This is the second of the series |
| 12 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 13 | Yesterday , the Home Secretary and I saw representatives of car manufacturers and car importers in the United Kingdom for the second in a series of meetings . |
| 14 | This film , the second in the series , captures the surprising joviality of the blast — the foreman joking with a policeman and the RUC representative smiling and laughing . |
| 15 | The second in the series of long-distance trials for GB juniors will be at Chester . |
| 16 | Once loaded , you can give the program explicit instructions to look at drive B then you can load up the exam paper stored on the floppy as a data file . |
| 17 | In the park Curzon replaced the formal rides , canals , and ponds of the 1720s with a series of lakes and a softening of the landscape , for which Adam designed a magnificent bridge and other architectural features . |
| 18 | The younger of the pair , Joseph noticed , held his arms unnaturally high across his tiny chest , and looking closer he saw a little bulge rumpling and moving beneath his silk tunic . |
| 19 | In cases where the primary is very much the brighter of the pair , the secondary is effectively ‘ drowned ’ . |
| 20 | The larger of the pair ( No. 3 ) apparently comprised a courtyard measuring 36 by 22 m ( 117½ by 72 ft ) , surrounded by rooms , though there are irregularities on the north . |
| 21 | Yet the right to dominate , the unquestioned superiority of the bourgeois as a species , implied not only inferiority but ideally an accepted , willing inferiority , as in the relation between man and woman ( which once again symbolises much about the bourgeois world view ) . |
| 22 | We present the eleventh in a series of essays by winners and runners-up in the 1991 competition . |
| 23 | Although agroforestry practices continued to be significant in tropical agricultural systems , in the ensuing period they achieved increasing importance in development policies from the 1970s as a means of optimising tropical land-use ( Bene et al. 1977 ) . |
| 24 | Under these schemes , which had first been developed in the 1970s as a means of raising capital from the private sector for new development , for example , on office and shopping complexes ( i.e. as a means of avoiding constraints on capital spending ) , council property was sold on a long lease to another agency and then leased back for shorter periods until the long lease expired . |
| 25 | The knock on effect of the latter throughout the fish processing sector explains the relatively depressed performance in the Food and drink sector . |
| 26 | The smallest of the species , the pink fairy armadillo , possesses one of the most extraordinary rumps in the animal kingdom . |
| 27 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 28 | It is the fifteenth in a series called ‘ The Russian world ’ which he has created for museums in various countries over the last five years or so . |
| 29 | This , incidentally , is the fifteenth in the series of great centenaries , held under the auspices of the Centre for Continuing Education , and it is to celebrate the death , and by that token the life and achievements , of the great English poet John Milton , who died in erm sixteen seventy four . |
| 30 | This is the sixth in a series of articles examining the problems in medical education and their possible solutions |