Example sentences of "[prep] be [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is Meregill Hole which has been descended to a depth of 565 feet , giving it the distinction of being the deepest of all . |
| 2 | Sarah , left alone , had the dubious distinction of being the last of all the Titfords in Frome . |
| 3 | All she could think of was the two of them , and her suspicion that he was right about her . |
| 4 | She was right , it was perfect , but what I looked like was the least of my problems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Gondola was significant in being the first of the specially built feature cars , unlike 68 which still operated normally while annually assuming its illuminations . |
| 7 | The health survey we took part in was the largest of its kind ever undertaken in Britain . |
| 8 | There was considerable irony in the fact that it was Baden-Powell , the maverick hero of Mafeking , who should come to rescue England from its Hooligans , if only because the feverish excitement of the jingo crowds and the ‘ Mafficking ’ that accompanied the South African campaign was thought to be no less of an affront to the English sang froid than ‘ Hooliganism ’ itself . |
| 9 | There 's to be no more of it , Dr Spilsby says . ’ |
| 10 | In fact , she found in her review that there seemed to be a great of continuity , that again and again over these forty years researchers were reporting similar sorts of social and psychological impacts of unemployment . |
| 11 | Going to be a fifth of three sixty . |
| 12 | That 's got a glossy leaf and I know by an elimination process it 's got to be a euonymous of some descripton . |
| 13 | And it 's going to be a third of three sixty is n't it ? |
| 14 | It is furthermore clear that when he expressed a favourable judgement on the Romanization of Spain and Gaul he was not copying what his most recent editor , F. Lasserre , has imagined to be a panegyric of Augustus . |
| 15 | one cubic centimetre 's going to be a hundredth of a cubic metre . |
| 16 | The force is reported to be the largest of its kind and is expected to become the prototype for other parts of the country with high-tech industry . |
| 17 | The newly published Annual Report on last season 's excavations by the British School at Rome at San Vincenzo al Volturno , Molise , in Central Italy , gives details of the remains of the apse of the ninth-century Carolingian abbey church of San Vincenzo Maggiore , proving the church to be the largest of its date south of the Alps . |
| 18 | The dam was planned to be the largest of its kind ever built , creating a 600 km-long reservoir , and displacing around 1,000,000 people from their homes ; its total cost was estimated at 57,000 million yuan . |
| 19 | According to the study , published tomorrow ( Thursday October 29 ) said to be the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the UK , six per cent of British households have a horse-rider in the family and the average horse owner , there are about 252,000 of them , spends more than £5,000 on their horse . |
| 20 | Lawyers said the action for disclosure of the name was believed to be the first of its kind in Britain . |
| 21 | During his period in England from 1831 to 1832 , in what was to be the first of several such sojourns , Louis-Napoleon met his uncle Joseph — only to be received with a glacial politeness and a lecture on his Italian escapade . |
| 22 | This was to be the first of three stages in a carefully planned development of the imperial role and power . |
| 23 | The military-style raid is believed to be the first of its kind in the white Cape Province settlement of King William 's Town . |
| 24 | East Anglian brewers Greene King have launched a manual on food hygiene believed to be the first of its kind in the brewing industry . |
| 25 | The ECSC was meant to be the first of several organisations integrating economic sectors , brought about by functional and political spillover . |
| 26 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 27 | It runs both Solaris 1.1 and 2.1 and is expected to be the first of a family of products . |
| 28 | Nimbus believes HyperSparc may even leapfrog Viking to be the first of the superscalars to become available to all-comers . |
| 29 | El Greco 's ‘ Disrobing ’ ( estimate £1.5–2.5 million ) is thought to be the first of the two small autograph versions of the famous altarpiece in the Toledo Cathedral baptistery , dating from 1577–80 . |
| 30 | The Foundation would appear to be the first of its kind in Britain , where the art world has long bemoaned the paucity of private beneficence of this kind . |