Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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31 Yes well if we take for example er probably the largest of the packages which we have priced converted to a fixed price basis so far which was package number three , er the tooling for the development aircraft and roll equipment which is erm er forty eight million pounds , that was priced in August nineteen ninety two when eighty percent of that work had been done .
32 I pull out the largest of the knives , then turn and leave the kitchen , heading down the corridor past the dining room and the study to the stairs .
33 Tubeworkers , the largest of the sub-contractors , is taking High Court action over money it claims is owed by Trafalgar .
34 The three men , talking earnestly , walked together to the largest of the huts and disappeared inside .
35 Verzenay is the largest of the grands crus and is the best growth on the northern slopes of the Montagne de Reims .
36 Vertus , at the southern end of the Côte des Blancs , is the largest of the grands and premiers crus .
37 Not the least of the advantages enjoyed by the peripheral regions was cheap coastal transport .
38 Simple requests for such increases were the least of the shipowners ' concerns , while on shipboard conditions there could be no cause for complaint because of the " army of government officials who were there to keep them up to the mark " .
39 STAMINA is not the least of the qualities demanded of the professional cricketer .
40 ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’
41 ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’
42 Greed is the least of the problems , though the administration was not amused when Israel pushed its luck by suggesting that to help with its Gulf expenses — missile damage , the cost of the prolonged military alert , loss of tourism and so on — America might like to double the $3 billion it already gives Israel each year .
43 That , in many ways , was the least of the problems .
44 Not the least of the problems which Cnut faced as king of England was an important and complex relationship with the English church .
45 Not the least of the offences which led to Paul 's assassination in 1801 was his contemptuous treatment of courtiers .
46 It is clear from the surviving correspondence that a naval career had become attractive to the Scottish gentry by the middle of the eighteenth century , perhaps because expenses at sea were much lower than those incurred in an army officer 's mess , while not the least of the attractions of a naval career in time of war was the possibility of prize money .
47 The ability to help or to harm was not the least of the tools in the politician 's inventory , and it may indeed have been of greater value than some of the more troublesome varieties of patronage , where a favour for one could easily anger others who were disappointed .
48 ‘ In many ways , Clinton 's victory was the least of the unknowns facing the market , ’ said Ian Amstad , economist at Bankers Trust in London .
49 Birth was the least of the requirements for co-option to this introverted community .
50 A test ban is the least of the proliferators ' worries .
51 Using the notation the bounds proved by Walpole for aligned transversely isotropic elements are : where the upper bound is where are the greatest of the values and the lower bound is where are the least of these .
52 ‘ Our kind is the greatest of the birds that fly in this land , ’ she explained .
53 But the greatest of the ruins of mediaeval Delhi , the great fort of Tughlukabad , lay some six miles due east of my rooftop , virtually invisible now in the gathering darkness .
54 A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape .
55 Spring , the greatest of the clothiers , owned land there valued at £105. 10s. ; his ancestors had been gentlemen , and his son John , in 1522 a gentleman in the household of Sir William Waldegrave at Smallbridge , Bures , dissolved the business on succeeding his father in 1523 .
56 ‘ I knew there were only seconds to go and could feel my strength failing with each moment , and a drifting kind of sleep coming on me which whispered , ‘ Give up , Minch , give up … ’ and it was only the knowledge that I was of Callanish , the greatest of the sites , that kept me fighting those few more seconds .
57 This rebellion had two main foci : the Viceroyalties of the Rio de la Plata and of New Granada , where resistance was to be symbolized by Bolívar , the greatest of the liberators of Latin America .
58 His antagonist , Kossuth , called him ‘ the greatest of the Magyars ’ .
59 The greatest of the epilogues for me comes at the end of Don Quixote where Quixote says , ‘ I have battled , I have made mistakes , but I have lived my life as best I can according to the world as I see it , and now … ’ .
60 the greatest of the magnates , who was determined to purge the court and to overturn Edward 's indulgent grants .
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