Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he actually ascribes to Constantine a status and a virtue which should , in theory , be reserved for Jesus alone : ‘ … most God-fearing sovereign , to whom alone of those who have yet been here since the start of time has the Universal All-ruling God Himself given power to purify human life ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Unless there is a change of heart and a positive determination to rid ourselves completely of this terrorism , then it is bound to happen in places such as Castlerock , as it has done in other areas . ’ |
| 3 | Yet the thing which struck her most of all here in the drawing room was that Harriet seemed to have a passion for photographs . |
| 4 | I asked what upsets her most of all . |
| 5 | What impressed her most of all was his knowledge of the town itself , and of the way a town functions . |
| 6 | One of the events which shook her most of all was the occasion upon which her mother gave her permission to go on the school trip to Paris . |
| 7 | It was the eldest , Tristram , who interested her most of all . |
| 8 | The woman in the greengrocer 's shop would sometimes slip a bunch of violets or a single head of a chrysanthemum that had accidentally snapped into Melanie 's hand and this pleased her most of all . |
| 9 | What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion . |
| 10 | Under the government 's new Rent-a-Room scheme , tenants and owner-occupiers who let furnished rooms in their only of main home may now be excused tax on rent up to £3,250 . |
| 11 | Which ever of those three wives takes food tomorrow to the workmen building the walls of the city , that one must be walled up in one of the pillars of the great gate . |
| 12 | Accidental bodily injury sustained by the Insured Person during the period of the holiday which independently of any other cause results in : |
| 13 | You announce that you want Mr Middleditch and when they say there 's nobody there of that name , you ask if you can ‘ ring the office ’ to find out what 's going on . |
| 14 | But it was such an unusual rise to fame , a situation that , apart from Elvis and The Beatles , there really was n't anyone else to make any reference to and say this is how they got through it all , because there had been nobody else of that size who had done it , and it 's hard to say how much of the rise to fame was attributed to DeFries . |
| 15 | Cervi could be in line for a new ball slot with nobody else of obvious pace in the side . |
| 16 | The then editor of The Architectural Review , J.M. Richards , offered an affectionate description of the English suburb in The castles on the ground ( 1946 ) , which instead of pouring scorn on suburban taste , took more seriously the needs it fulfilled and the impulses that created it . |
| 17 | For the purposes of 4 above the settlor shall not be deemed to have divested himself absolutely of any property if that property or any income therefrom or any property directly or indirectly representing the proceeds of or the income from that property or any income therefrom is or will , or may , become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor in any circumstances whatsoever ( TA 1988 , s685(1) ) . |
| 18 | ‘ Now please show me more of marvellous Florence . ’ |
| 19 | She reminds me more of All Souls ’ Eve than Christmas . |
| 20 | Even if the library does not have the information that you need , the librarian will probably be able to tell you where you can find it : with hundreds of books available about all aspects of archaeology , it is as well to sample a few of these to get a better idea of what aspects of archaeology interest you most of all . |
| 21 | When the council had organized a festival to alert the people to the plight of Nicaragua , she alone of all the neighbours had climbed into the mobile coffee shop , which the council had provided , to drink Nicaraguan coffee and read the Nicaraguan posters which adorned the bulkheads and bulwarks of the van . |
| 22 | ‘ Harry , I love you best of all . |
| 23 | We promised you more of that Hudson Hawk map , and here it is courtesy of David Pitchforth . |
| 24 | For consciousness is itself part of that fabric , and , or so I shall argue in Part Two , the value features which are found there are real properties of certain experiences ( and indeed of the physical and social environment in our personal versions of it ) which have an intrinsic prescriptivity . |
| 25 | " Mr Herriot , I 'm so sorry to bother you today of all days . |
| 26 | Hatecke had recognised that it was possible to obtain control even in diving flight by using the lift force itself instead of any mechanical rudder system . |
| 27 | Why should we hire you instead of one of the other candidates ? |
| 28 | If you know in advance that a customer is going to take six months to pay you instead of one and you still want to make the sale , then consider loading your price to cover your finance costs . |
| 29 | That might not sound very healthy , but in the recession-ravaged high street , not to be losing your shirt puts you ahead of most . |
| 30 | Reading a chapter in a book wo n't give you either of these , but it may be able to offer you some explanations , understanding and suggestions for further development . |