Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family was far from being the poorest of the peasants , but Nasser nonetheless had first-hand experience of the poverty-stricken conditions of the rural Egyptians , crammed in along the banks of the Nile on which the whole country depended . |
| 2 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 3 | And in another poem , entitled Local Hero , Dominic wrote : Devoid of charts I drift on a raft of dreams , So please think kindly if ever you consider me , For is not compassion the finest of the arts ? |
| 4 | The finest of the cathedrals is that at Basle , which has a picturesque situation on the Rhine . |
| 5 | It was the finest of the pieces Maria had bought , the work of a master . |
| 6 | ‘ You look quite strong , ’ she said , picking up the largest of the suitcases and dragging it up the stairs . |
| 7 | The largest of the sharks and rays are also filter-feeders . |
| 8 | It was they , with the largest of the teachers ' unions , the NUT , who were largely responsible for the establishment of the Schools Council , to advise and experiment in respect of curricular content . |
| 9 | The largest of the males began to court her . |
| 10 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |
| 11 | And then the largest of the Oaks moved forward and Tealtaoich saw that he had the high , domed forehead of a scholar and a thinker and that his ancient eyes held wisdom and knowledge . |
| 12 | The largest of the Oaks , who had the high-domed features of a scholar and a thinker , and who had massive powerful shoulders , made a sign and the four Oaks who held Balor captive moved . |
| 13 | At present it is only possible to guess that the largest of the villas , such as Woodchester , Bignor and North Leigh may have been owner occupied . |
| 14 | Adrian Bird , chairman of the Open Spaces , reported his was the largest of the committees , among whose members were councillors , walkers and riders . |
| 15 | The first is that three nuns from the same order work in the largest of the villages , Kormakiti , and so we provide a useful link . |
| 16 | Native of the largest of the continents , five letters . |
| 17 | The largest of the islands , Majorca , has much more to recommend it than just beaches . |
| 18 | Martyn and I spent the next 10 days camping on the largest of the islands , sharing it with 30 pairs of geese . |
| 19 | The latest , and the largest of the takeovers came last week with the offer of £1.1bn by Australian Mutual Provident , Australia 's largest life insurance company , for Pearl Group , a leading British life insurer . |
| 20 | The Association of Women of El Salvador ( founded in 1979 ) , is the largest of the women 's organizations which support the FDR-FMLN : |
| 21 | The area under the peak corresponding to the actin cable is about 5 times that for the largest of the peaks corresponding to cortical actin elsewhere . |
| 22 | Here , the largest of the towns considered in this volume grew at the centre of an extensive pottery industry which came to supply widespread military and civilian markets . |
| 23 | The largest of the towns is Nuuk ( formerly Godthaab ) , the capital , which has a population of 11,000 . |
| 24 | In Polynesia , the largest of the groups — an immense , tilted isosceles triangle of islands with its apex in New Zealand and its other angles in Hawaii and Easter Island respectively — only Western Samoa , Tuvalu and Tonga are now nominally independent . |
| 25 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 26 | The largest of the filter-feeders is , however , far from static and is indeed the biggest animal that has ever lived — the blue whale . |
| 27 | A single processor offers 86 MIPS , 75.4 SpecMarks and 78.1 AIMS , versus the largest of the systems with 344 MIPS and a record-setting 289.3 SPECthruput . |
| 28 | The largest of the civets , the binturong , hardly qualifies as a small predator , since it can grow to 3 ft ( 90 cm ) in length . |
| 29 | The sea mammals are well represented , with dolphin and whale ( especially the humpback whale ) in the top 10 , and the largest of the dolphins — the killer whale , or orca — also making it into the top 20 . |
| 30 | The lesser rorqual ( or minke , as it is called in Norway ) is the largest of the cetaceans likely to be met with in inshore water around Shetland . |