Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one of the largest and earliest of Greek Byzantine churches . |
| 2 | In practice there were two types of member : the fifty or so of middle-class or petit bourgeois origin who formed the backbone of the appreciative audience at Leese 's regular Wednesday night diatribes against the Jews at his London headquarters represented the core of the IFL ; there were also working-class members who engaged in street meetings at intermittent intervals and who were involved in direct conflict and physical violence with members of the Jewish community . |
| 3 | The longest and best of the times when things went well was the one that started in 1945 , when Greece was suddenly the only non-communist country in Europe east of Vienna . |
| 4 | High literary culture was the preserve , naturally , of the literate but also of those educated within a classical tradition , acquainted with previous literary models . |
| 5 | They were particularly impressed with the additional two and a half million for home care with the resources to go with it , together with the additional and also of course the eight hundred thousand for the er scheme . |
| 6 | Prevention meant to Posidonius moderate use of power , responsible treatment of the poor and even of the slaves . |
| 7 | His lithographs of Palestinian villages and of Lebanon , of Tyre and the peninsula of Ras Naqourra , of the temples of Baalbek , are bathed only in the peace of antiquity , a nineteenth-century dream machine that would become more seductive as the decades saw the collapse of the Turkish and then of the British Empire . |
| 8 | The simplest and earliest of these is due to Alfrey and consists of taking the spectral function as the negative slope of the relaxation curve in a static ( stress relaxation or creep ) experiment ( Figure 3.5 ) . |
| 9 | It was merely the nearest and loudest of five or six clashing noises . |
| 10 | When the 60-strong Troop was reduced through casualties to the 38 or so of an infantry platoon , their handling was very similar . |
| 11 | Most pilgrimages are to a dead place , whereas this is surely the noblest and best of pilgrimages . |
| 12 | On his return to London he makes the following comment on the period 8 to 14 November , presumably spent with Helen Noble : ‘ The holiest and best of pleasures . |
| 13 | As always , we would welcome other volunteers prepared to devote a couple of weeks ' work a year , unpaid and unthanked , to help make this competition the fairest and best of its kind — particularly for those who read the correspondence . |
| 14 | Perversely , doing this will require the biggest and best of radio telescope arrays . |
| 15 | And though fine-paper profits drooped from £14.2 million to £13 million , they rose at Donald Murray Paper , in Glasgow , which remains ‘ the biggest and best of our British companies within the fine-paper group ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Rob , I do n't believe you 've met Commander Bob Tanner , ’ Bliss began conversationally , as though he and D'Arcy were the oldest and best of friends . |
| 17 | Suffice to suggest that the ego -experienced world of the Sonnets , despite the enormous time devoted to the Thou , creates what is essentially a single vision , a self-dedication to the other , which in effect results in an exposure and analysis , not only of the other but also of the self . |
| 18 | I have mentioned relative to the ignorance , the immorality , the grossness , the obscenity , the drunkenness , the dirtiness , and depravity of the middling and even of a large portion of the better sort of tradesmen , the artisans , and the journeymen tradesmen of London in the days of my youth , may excite a suspicion that the picture I have drawn is a caricature . |
| 19 | The third and best of the Rabbitte family trilogy that began with The Commitments is an essential read for anyone with fond memories of Italia ‘ 90 . |
| 20 | They kept it intact to the last but both of them knew , without any discussion , that to keep themselves afloat they 'd jump on any passing raft . |
| 21 | No company seized the opportunity to record Sir Charles Mackerras 's fine performance in 1986 of The Golden Legend , the last and best of the major choral works . |
| 22 | This will be a new experience for Mr Major , the last and hardest of his political initiation rites . |
| 23 | He 's been to the last 2 olympics , skied in world cups , faced the steepest and fastest of runs . |
| 24 | The global success not only of Japanese enterprise in the 1980s but also of the other NICs of East Asia has been seen by some commentators such as Blunt ( 1989 : 21 ) as a spur to the renaissance of studies of effective leadership in recent times . |