Example sentences of "the [adj] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his formidable survey of 1849–50 , London Labour and the London Poor , Mayhew describes a room in the poorest of his three classes of costermonger . |
| 2 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |
| 3 | Yet the demand ‘ for every syllable a note ’ was felt as a constraint and only when Byrd for some reason was able to resist it , in his Great Service , does he rise to the heights of the four- and five-part Masses evidently intended for some great Catholic household , and the finest of his motets , in which he reveals his mastery of freely imitative polyphony . |
| 4 | The bridge carrying the A9 across the River Tay is one of the works of Telford ( q.v. ) and is the largest of his masonry-bridges , with 7 arches . |
| 5 | And for those whose familiarity with the Irish composer John Field has been but a brief bumble through the simpler of his nocturnes , to hear O'Conor 's enthusiasm is to experience some of the ripple of Field 's remarkable melodic flow . |
| 6 | They can act as a prick to our conscience to give time or money to help ( we do unto the least of His brethren what we do unto Him ) . |
| 7 | The death under somewhat dubious circumstances of a racehorse belonging to his son was frankly the least of his problems . |
| 8 | Actually , the voice was the least of his problems . |
| 9 | ‘ Mind the dog pooh , ’ shouts Preston to the two children running heedless before him , though dog pooh , even here , where it thrives like fungus after rain , is the least of his worries . |
| 10 | But that pain was the least of his worries . |
| 11 | And with their given tone and range , the two lectures proclaimed that Altertumswissenschaft , the pure intellectual and compartmental study of antiquity , was not the least of his particular targets . |
| 12 | Someone stood carelessly among the embers , as if having his flesh charred was the least of his worries . |
| 13 | That is the least of his problems , I 'd have thought . |
| 14 | A special form of coloured route marker had to be developed and approved and it was in this field , as with TRE , that Bennett had the least of his problems . |
| 15 | Out for a golden duck — but as Mr Maxwell returned to the pavilion , a wry smile suggested that just now keeping his place in the Hailey first team is the least of his worries . |
| 16 | That 's the least of his bloody worries ! |
| 17 | All were answered at length in a meticulous hand and , from a closer study of these letters , much can be learned of this gardener who was to be acknowledged as the greatest of his time . |
| 18 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 19 | Dunstan , the greatest of his predecessors after Augustine , was still omitted . |
| 20 | The greatest of his achievements is that he is working here . |
| 21 | Cnut 's taking of a second , imperial , crown may well have been stimulated not only by a position in Scandinavia which emulated that of Swegen , but by achievements in Britain which lay firmly in a tradition established by the greatest of his royal Anglo-Saxon predecessors . |
| 22 | Thus , Cnut 's reign ended , like that of Edgar , one of the greatest of his Anglo-Saxon predecessors , with the king 's early death and a succession dispute between his sons . |
| 23 | He was indefatigable in confirming all who came to him as he moved around the countryside , and in his moments of leisure he wrote the longest of his Meditations on the theme of Cur Deus Homo , and his De Conceptu Virginali as a sequel to this work . |
| 24 | Roy is married , the youngest of his two daughters is to be married in October after which Roy and his family will move house from Worcestershire nearer to Elderslie . |
| 25 | This puts him on course for his first pole in Adelaide since 1986 , his first win in Australia , a record 10th victory of the season and the 31st of his 12-year career . |
| 26 | Ray Floyd , having dumped his ball in it to help Faldo to the second of his titles , would not deem it so . |
| 27 | The billposter attempting to paste the second of his ‘ Cooper and Co 's Teas ’ posters on the hoarding watched the paper slowly curl back from the wall and drop on to the ground . |
| 28 | The period of the Attlee governments of 1945–51 was particularly prone to retrospective retouching by the ideologically driven in the mid-1980s , as Paul Addison noted in the Preface to the second of his two outstanding studies of the 1940s : |
| 29 | In 1880 Queen Victoria had been on the throne for forty-three years ; Gladstone began the second of his four terms as Prime Minister ; Great Britain was at the zenith of its powers . |
| 30 | Twenty-five years after the second of his two consecutive Super Bowl triumphs , a new picture is being painted on the banks of Lake Michigan . |