Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of Artai 's enthronement was one which Alexei was to remember afterwards as one of the most confusing of his life . |
| 2 | We need strong sectors and effective organisations that are widely representative of their members . |
| 3 | Acorn says that major shareholder Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA is wholly supportive of its strategy and the plans developed to implement it . |
| 4 | He was in effect the news " general " and I was the most junior of his three assistants . |
| 5 | The evidence for these remarks is to be found in a series of letters which are among the most revealing of his later years . |
| 6 | The fifteenth century windows at Fairford are the most complete of their time in the world . |
| 7 | Nevertheless the ministry was probably the best and most complete of its kind in Europe . |
| 8 | Among the most striking of its findings were that all those surveyed said they had more confidence in statements on biotechnology made by environment and consumers ' groups than in those issuing from government or industry . |
| 9 | In one of the most striking of his letters to his brother , the Emperor Joseph II , he stresses the need for a ruler always to be willing to give his subjects a complete account of the finances of the state and of their administration ; such action , he writes , is ‘ glorious , useful and just ’ . |
| 10 | But logical or not , the 5TH is certainly complicated — as the most respectable of its apologists admit , though they may prefer to call it " sophisticated " and will refrain from giving a full and candid account of the intricacies of its operation . |
| 11 | The men of the Old World were determined mariners and eventually some of their ships found a route to Ulthuan . |
| 12 | Eventually some of your replies to advertisements or general enquiries about vacancies will result in your being called for an interview . |
| 13 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | In the most celebrated of his works , The Guide for the Perplexed , he said : ‘ Time is composed of time-atoms , i.e. of many parts , which on account of their short duration can not be divided … . |
| 15 | He says we know that the Victorians went to the gentleman 's club in the day and the brothel at night , before going home , but we could take on some of their values . |
| 16 | ( Pat has a good strong Catholic conscience , a desire to pass on some of her good fortune . ) |
| 17 | The former Ryder Cup man was not here to work on swings ; merely to pass on some of his knowledge on course management . |
| 18 | All these simple garden activities depend upon the real involvement and enjoyment of an adult who loves a garden , and can pass on some of his or her knowledge to children as they work and play together . |
| 19 | ‘ As a management team we are all excited by the buy-out and we hope the new owners will take on some of our ideas and extend the services that we provide . ’ |
| 20 | that if we pass on some of your comments at the end of the section , maybe they 'll be able to arrange , maybe in two or three months time a visit that most of us can make , particularly those of you who missed it , because it is an important experience , but obviously quite difficult to arrange , because it involves real tenants and real people but we can pass that back , and I 'm sure the officers will consider it . |
| 21 | The household of Henry I of England , the most literate of its day north of the Alps and the Pyrenees , the centre of an administrative and judicial system which was rapidly growing , was still a mobile headquarters for a chieftain whose principal business was to hunt and to fight . |
| 22 | He seemed in good spirits and mercifully oblivious of her torment . |
| 23 | [ PAMELA 's struggle with BELVILLE brings on another of her fits and once again she faints . ] |
| 24 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 25 | In parallel , the inner life of the Tsar and that of the two most visionary of his children , the haemophiliac Tsarevich Alexis and the daughter Tatiana , becomes increasingly burdened and tormented by visions . |
| 26 | He says that his afternoon in the arcade was the most exciting of his lie . |
| 27 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 28 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 29 | Examples ( above ) are becoming increasingly collectable today , partly because the design is so representative of its age . |
| 30 | The downfall of Mr Perez and Mr Collor may in fact owe less to their corruption — real or imagined — than to their general unpopularity and especially that of their economic reforms . |