Example sentences of "[adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose the most damaging and erroneous of the myths is the belief , and disdain , held in Australia and New Zealand that the Mother Country sent weedy wrecks to fight alongside hefty , bronzed , open-air Gods of Nature , or , even worse , sat about ‘ drinking tea ’ . |
| 2 | The most primitive of the armoured mammals are the five species of echidnas , or spiny anteaters , from Australasia . |
| 3 | Lionfish are the most gregarious of the large aquarium fish and respond well when kept in a small group , again providing an impressive display in a tank devoted to them exclusively |
| 4 | Once clear of the ground , most gliders are very similar to each other and you should have no problems . |
| 5 | This restraint expected in police hair was clearly illustrated in a large poster exhibited in the Northumbria police training department in the early 1980s , which ordered : ‘ male hair will be clear of the collar … [ and ] sideburns will not extend below the centre of the ear … ’ . |
| 6 | Aim to curl up with your head and shoulders lifting clear of the mat . |
| 7 | Ahead , a low cairn of granite boulders rose clear of the moor . |
| 8 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 9 | But he had kept well clear of the struggle against the Act — why ? |
| 10 | The guards are removed so great care has to be taken and hands kept well clear of the blade ( below left and right ) . |
| 11 | Although two points clear of the pack , the writing is on the wall for Aberdeen unless someone starts banging goals away . |
| 12 | When it opened in 1931 , erected on 22,000 concrete piles to lift it clear of the water-sodden ground , it already sported its own blast furnace , foundry , jetty and power station . |
| 13 | This means you can still get the whole of the bend and point of the hook completely clear of the boilie . |
| 14 | Seljalandsfoss is a ponytail of a waterfall throwing itself clear of the rim of its cliff to look like a 1950s American college girl shaking her head . |
| 15 | It seems incomprehensible that a chassis with such a marked front weight-bias and an inside-rear tyre that can jump six inches clear of the ground can also provide such superlative behaviour . |
| 16 | Clearance patrols are mounted to ensure that our area is clear of the enemy . |
| 17 | This guaranteed that the water fell to the ground just clear of the walls , so protecting them against damp , discoloration and decay . |
| 18 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 19 | Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena . |
| 20 | Christie was away smoothly out of his blocks and never looked like being caught , though the bustling Rosswess pulled clear of the remainder of the field , including the two Scottish Commonwealth Games representatives , Jamie Henderson , who was third , and Elliot Bunney . |
| 21 | Strett soon afterwards worked a scissors with Hunter who raced clear of the cover for a try . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , by Wednesday I 'm clear of the Committee , and I could take him to a Regional Office . |
| 23 | Hongkong Bank steered clear of the mania to lend to third-world countries that peaked in the early 1980s . |
| 24 | The allegations of corruption , too , have not so far touched the other three services , which have kept quietly clear of the row between the army and the government . |
| 25 | Indians tell the poll-takers that their country should stay clear of the whole business . |
| 26 | Instead of using a jack to take the weight , Jos turned his back on the front bumper , bent his knees and lifted the two leading tyres clear of the ground . |
| 27 | Individual pots can be sealed in a plastic bag held clear of the foliage by wire hoops . |
| 28 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
| 29 | For the rest of the first circuit Run And Skip and Dawn Run , both regular frontrunners , vied for the lead on the fast ground , and their duel took them well clear of the rest of the field . |
| 30 | His speeches were , of course , dominated by the great foreign political issues of the year , but there can be no doubt that Hitler was deliberately steering clear of the ‘ Jewish Question ’ , and that there was a continued conscious attempt to dissociate his public image from the seamier side of anti-Semitism visible in the renewed growing violence of Party activists . |