Example sentences of "the [adj] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fig. 123 the violent diagonal of the hero 's body , twisting back as he throws himself across , lies over the counter-diagonal of the bull , carved in low relief on the background but it too turning its head out and back . |
| 2 | The old Union station had been in a rambling neo-Romanesque style , but the new one was to match the grandest of the American Beaux-Arts school , and in some ways surpass them . |
| 3 | Now , all these were black sheep , they were the nicest of the lot , and there was no , they were the ones you turned to , if you wanted to discuss your troubles . |
| 4 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 5 | Goal of the week ; the 17th of the season for hit man , Craig Maskell . |
| 6 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 7 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 8 | The recognition in the 1820s of the new Latin-American republics as independent states is said to have increased the workload of the British foreign office by a half , while in the later decades of the nineteenth century commercial and economic diplomacy and the need to influence the new force of mass public opinion were making new and unprecedented demands . |
| 9 | Send to What 's Brewing , CAMRA , 34 Alma Road , St Albans , Herts , AL1 3BW to arrive not later than the 15th of the month . |
| 10 | It is filled in each month and sent ( no later than the 15th of the following month ) to the Co-ordinator/National Secretary . |
| 11 | The prices are usually collected on the Tuesday closest to the 15th of the month and the index is published in the third week of the following month in various economic journals . |
| 12 | TO DISTRIBUTE AMONG THE NEEDY OF THE PARISH |
| 13 | CARE was formed in 1946 and helps the poorest of the poor in 38 countries in Africa , Asia and South America . |
| 14 | In the case of the Primitive Methodists , the poorest of the four leading denominations , the Connexion faced a debt of £1,003,207 by 1901 . |
| 15 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 16 | It is the poorest of the three countries and suffers from inadequate social services , political repression and an economy heavily dependent on the export of one crop — bananas — controlled mainly by foreign companies . |
| 17 | He was a cultured , educated man , yet he lacked the simple faith of the poorest of the poor . |
| 18 | Women — who have been among the poorest of the poor — are primordially those who will be liberated . |
| 19 | Schemes include Enterprise 5 's transformation of the Old Customs House and Sailor 's Home on the New Quay into yuppie flats and , something which is quite bizarre , the redevelopment of the old Bell St Tenements on the fish quay , originally built for the poorest of the poor in the 1920s , as posh flats . |
| 20 | Yet it involved a principle which many could not accept : regardless of the sacrifices demanded of the rest of the community , it seemed too much to ask of the poorest of the poor . |
| 21 | How will they repay their debt when the poorest of the poor are cheated in such a way ? |
| 22 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unlike other professors at Oxford , the Professor of Poetry is elected by the MAs of the University : that is to say , not only by the dons , but also by all the old members of the University who have paid the appropriate fees and undergone , either in person or in absentia , a short ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre . |
| 25 | It is regarded as the finest of the Cambridge college bridges ; an achievement to which the architect may have been spurred by the old St. John 's bridge , a masterpiece by Wren , barely 20 yards downstream . |
| 26 | ‘ Frost at Midnight ’ , perhaps the finest of the Conversation Poems , is a meditation on Coleridge 's own childhood , and a passionate expression of hope for Hartley 's future . |
| 27 | The present Liszt disc is among the finest of the series to date . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was the finest of the pieces Maria had bought , the work of a master . |
| 30 | 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 ? |