Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 6lb line I can bend into a fish and know that there is some bend remaining ; that I have not used all of the shock-absorber effect of the rod . |
| 2 | Iris Murdoch 's war-time communism had given place , well before her first novel ever appeared , to an interest in Sartre 's Existentialism : a natural stepping-stone , in the 1940s , along a well-trodden path that leads out of the simplifying preconceptions of Marxism ; and though earlier partisan interests flickered back half into life in the 1960s , during the Vietnam war , she had already abandoned Marx , and publicly , before the 1950s were out . |
| 3 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 4 | For people who must be detained for the protection of the public because of the horrific nature of their crimes , we should be designing units which will genuinely help them to change to whatever extent is possible . |
| 5 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | The speeches of famous visionary leaders such as Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King offer good examples of the skilful use of such rhetorical devices , which allow their listeners to ‘ see ’ the visions as if they were real . |
| 7 | Though detailed descriptive accounts of the muscular system of many insect species are available , the homologies of the muscles are sometimes difficult to decide and no uniform terminology exists . |
| 8 | You can tell he was a scum player though , because of the stark lack of modesty . |
| 9 | De Soto and his researchers , which include economists , sociologists and anthropologists and lawyers , have worked out some of the stark costs of formality in Peru : if a group of humble families gather and ask the government to give them an empty plot of land to live on , they must fill out a maze of forms and go to scores of ministry , municipal and other government offices , a process that averages six years and 11 months . |
| 10 | Moore , a British civil servant and one of the outstanding pioneers of the Golden Age . |
| 11 | Er , er , it 's dreadful is n't it , that we 've lost two of the outstanding footballers of this or any other age in one year . |
| 12 | All that has been written above about the identification of the goodness of Christ 's teachings with the objectives of the creation of the Created God , can be applied equally to the teachings of the outstanding figures of all religions and of all religious history . |
| 13 | As Elector of Hanover George I had been at war with Charles XII of Sweden , one of the outstanding soldiers of his time , since October 1715 and England now became involved due to the frequent presence of an English fleet in the Baltic , which the Swedes were inclined to regard , as the English did the Channel , as a private sea of their own . |
| 14 | NASHWAN 'S owner and trainer yesterday decided against the only course of action that could have restored the reputation of their Derby winner as one of the outstanding racehorses of the post-war era by opting to by-pass the richest and usually most competitive race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 15 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
| 16 | Pretty Polly was indisputably one of the outstanding racemares of all time . |
| 17 | A ‘ vendor placing ’ is the term given to placings which exceed the customary limit of about 15 per cent of the outstanding value of the company 's existing equity . |
| 18 | ‘ ONE of the outstanding books of this 20 years , ’ wrote Sean O'Faolain in his review of Angus Wilson 's first collection of stories , The Wrong Set , on its appearance in 1949 : He is a satirist with a lyrical touch ; trenchant , ruthless , often very funny , sometimes very frightening ; and he can write as a duck can swim . |
| 19 | Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent . |
| 20 | While one of the outstanding attractions of the policy is that you receive a cash payment on your 65th birthday ( or after ten years , whichever is later ) , the benefits certainly do n't end there . |
| 21 | Trade relations between Japan and the United States improved at the start of April as the so-called " Structural Impediments Initiative " ( SII ) talks [ see p. 37319 ] produced an agreement by the two sides on a number of the outstanding points of conflict . |
| 22 | After the exile the sabbath rules were strictly enforced ( Nehemiah 13:15–22 ) , and their observance became one of the outstanding features of Judaism . |
| 23 | MICK McCarthy 's scoring exploits with Skibbereen have been one of the outstanding features of the All Ireland Club football championship campaign . |
| 24 | Of course , one of the outstanding characteristics of herbs is what might be termed their nasal quality . |
| 25 | Building on the core collection which once formed part of the outstanding collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence , Parker built up the Ashmolean prints and drawings collection into one of the world 's finest . |
| 26 | A detailed catalogue of the outstanding collection of theatrical paintings acquired by the museum a branch of the V&A since 1947 . |
| 27 | The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century . |
| 28 | Further south are some of the outstanding examples of the Byzantine influenced Romanesque churches of France . |
| 29 | May became one of the outstanding architects of the seventeenth century . |
| 30 | Westlake Village , California-based Delphi Information Systems Inc says it plans to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Continental Systems Inc of East Lansing , Michigan for about 446,000 shares of Delphi common stock , worth $3m . |