Example sentences of "to the [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ The talent required to drive a machine to the ultimate of its ability is the same as always . |
| 32 | Scrooge will play at the Oxford Apollo from the fifteen of December to the twenty-second of January . |
| 33 | We know that the Palace was still used occasionally for in 1418 , Bishop Yong was here , sitting judicially in his Chapel at Halling giving judgement and punishment to the Prior of the Convent of Rochester , in a dispute over St. Nicholas Church , Rochester . |
| 34 | Ray Floyd , having dumped his ball in it to help Faldo to the second of his titles , would not deem it so . |
| 35 | This brings us to the second of my three questions . |
| 36 | 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 : |
| 37 | Setting these and other tricks and experiments aside , we must turn to the second of the two chief methods of covering a book which , oddly enough , is by binding it . |
| 38 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 39 | With respect to the second of these issues , Peirce holds that it is rational to suppose that there is , in any particular case , an affinity between our sense of plausibility and the nature of reality . |
| 40 | The earldom of Derby was conferred on Henry of Grosmont , son and heir of the Earl of Lancaster , and Hugh Audley , the old rival of the Despensers , received the earldom of Gloucester , to which he had a claim by virtue of his marriage to the second of the coheiresses of Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who fell at Bannockburn . |
| 41 | It is only necessary to refer to the second of those cases which were decisions of this court , because in the judgments in the second of those cases , reference is made back to Brown v. Draper . |
| 42 | The reason for this , according to the second of the two studies just cited , is that " large firms … had more rationalised hiring systems and were better able to identify when temporary workers could be used efficiently " . |
| 43 | We also draw upon the findings of an earlier longitudinal study of men registering as unemployed in 1978 — the Department of Health and Social Security 's ( DHSS ) Cohort Study — which contributes information pertinent to the second of the two issues under consideration . |
| 44 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 45 | However , this line of argument still leaves unanswered the question why strikes are presented as they are , which brings us to the second of the points Hyman raised . |
| 46 | For the time being , we move on to the second of our theoretical perspectives , the ethogenic approach . |
| 47 | With respect to the second of these jobs , terms like ‘ subversion ’ often have such elastic definitions that , again , they can frequently provide the pretext for the surveillance of legitimate political activity . |
| 48 | But , moving on to the second of the problematic areas indicated earlier , the liberal mode itself is open to question , irrespective of its organisational context . |
| 49 | On Wednesday evening I went to the second of three seminars at my lawyers to do with Europe — set up to mark the SUMMIT . |
| 50 | Now to the second of our reports on the changing nature of farming . |
| 51 | Now to the second of our special reports on the region 's brewing industry . |
| 52 | Now to the second of our reports from HMS Gloucester , which has been helping to enforce the United Nations sanctions against Serbia . |
| 53 | ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark . |
| 54 | The Father 's acceptance of this total love , led to the greatest of all triumphs in the Resurrection of Christ . |
| 55 | The church 's vast wealth was accessible to the king on a scale denied even to the greatest of landed magnates . |
| 56 | And then , as you would surely expect if not demand , we come to the greatest of all operettas , ‘ Die Fledermaus ’ ( 1874 ) — starting with the famous overture , and going on to excerpts from the party scene of Act II . |
| 57 | I had it down to the finest of details . |
| 58 | William Hutton in his account of Birmingham published in 1781 described the " low amusements " of the " humbler class " : the wakes — " completely suited to the lowest of tempers " — bull baiting , skittles and ale . |
| 59 | A spectacular dropped goal from 45 yards by Davies took Wasps to the narrowest of victories over title-chasing Orrell , who came to London in third place and with a match in hand . |
| 60 | One would have expected that Alfred , as the eldest , would have taken over the family firm or that it would have been left to the four of you jointly . ’ |