Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Chatsworth is the grandest of gardens , with canals , fountains , cascades and magnificent glasshouses within a 1,000 park .
2 The Great Court of the Citadel of Famagusta was one hundred and sixty feet long , and built to accommodate the grandest of ceremonials .
3 This is a stunning world of peace and tranquility , an assortment of panoramic spectacles , where every sight is awesome , and all are on the grandest of scales .
4 ( Restaurant advertisement , translated by T C Lai ) THE FRENCH gastronomic journal , Gault-Millau , caused major ructions this summer by applying its critical eye to the grandest of Hong Kong 's hotel restaurants .
5 Lutyens was brought up at Thursley in Surrey and developed a great love for that county 's local styles and materials , although he also built in the grandest of manners .
6 Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen .
7 Not the nicest of things , no
8 Both Schwarzenegger as the nicest of guys and De Vito as a sneaky crook are surprisingly convincing and delightfully funny .
9 Mike said : ‘ I was n't told in the nicest of manners .
10 The provisional date is Sunday the 17th of September .
11 If the police authority was invited to co-opt people to add to their numbers , making sure that the majority still stayed with the councillors , then I do n't think one should have too much objection to it , but if it 's to be done in this er this way of central er of central allocation er in the form of the answer to the question to my noble friend Lord Lyle from my noble friend the Minister on the 17th of January which the Noble Lord , Lord Carrigan made reference in which these people are to be er i i it staggers me my Lord , I have to stop for the moment , it staggers me the er the insolence , the insolence of the Home Office in writing down job descriptions and personal profiles for people that are going to function locally .
12 they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all .
13 On Sunday the 17th of Rabi'I [ 20 March 1650 ] the festival of Nauroz [ New Year ] was celebrated in the most splendid and sumptuous style as the ocean of royal bounty and munificence broke into surging billows …
14 On Saturday the 17th of August we attended the Great British Beer Festival which was held in the Docklands Arena , London .
15 It is consequently being officially recorded that Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , is presumed to have been killed in action on the 17th of June 1944 .
16 It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles .
17 Substantial doubts had been raised by the difficultly of Coleman 's having committed the crime in the short space of time for which he had no alibi on the night of the murder , and by numerous statements gathered after the trial attesting that another resident of the small town of Grundy had boasted of having committed the crime .
18 At the time of writing the next excursion is not far ahead , on Saturday the 15th of July .
19 Some members who had not taken a journey by train and particularly by steam train for years came on one or both of our trips on the 22nd of June ( Central Wales Line ) and the 15th of July ( Severn Valley ) , to recapture the atmosphere .
20 There will be genealogists who will be fascinated to discover who their ancestors spoke with on the 15th of July 1993 or historical demographers who might wish to use these records to assess the role the telephone played in family communication ( Did the phone help to maintain family structure over extended distances ? )
21 In celebration of International Women 's Day , Apples and Snakes are bringing together many of the most popular and powerful woman poets and performers in the country , including many new performers , for a two week , nation-wide tour from the 1st to the 15th of March — THE MOTHER TONGUE TOUR .
22 He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) .
23 On the previous Tuesday , she knew that it had been , in Johnny 's time , the 15th of August .
24 Does he not realize that the people of Ulster are quite passively tolerating Dublin rule and have been since the 15th of November 1985 .
25 Although the Bois became notorious as the place where the respectable of society met the less respectable , it was nevertheless , in some sense , an extension of the Court itself , for the carriage outings of the Emperor and the Empress formed part of the spectacle :
26 A second measure was also taken in this study which may provide information relevant to subjects ’ expectations , this was a measure of how well each subject previously knew the each of junctions in the films .
27 Meanwhile for the first time since 1863 , the needy of Herefordshire will no longer be able to look to the sisters of Bartestree for compassion and care .
28 Meanwhile for the first time since 1863 , the needy of Herefordshire will no longer be able to look to the sisters of Bartestree for compassion and care .
29 Black women live and work in the poorest of circumstances and confront the penalties of white racism as a matter of course in every aspect of their lives .
30 It was not a lesson , according to Mayhew , that the poor in fact needed to learn , for he finds the same scrupulous cleanliness in the poorest of London tenements , where every object in sight from chairs to children seems to have been that moment newly scrubbed .
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