Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 These trees clustered everywhere in dense clumps , and they were the grandest of all , arrogant and yet familiar , noisy but amiable .
2 Of these , ironically , the grandest of all Scottish interiors , Hamilton Palace , was stripped and demolished , but is recorded by a small selection of photographs here .
3 At all events , the great age of Athens , on this reading , was the age of the Persian wars in the early years of the fifth century , a time of supreme political endeavour and a time when the grandest of all tragic dramatists , Aeschylus , was there to provide the spiritual leadership of the city .
4 She was the nicest in these here .
5 Mozart arrived back in Salzburg in mid-January and his certificate of appointment was finally signed on the 17th of that month .
6 Veteran abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler turns up until the 17th of this month at a new gallery — new , that is , for her — Knoedler .
7 New work by this veteran artist ‘ The Judgment of Paris series ’ is being presented at Robert Miller until the 17th of this month .
8 Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune .
9 Only if productivity increases is it possible in the long-run for both groups to be successful .
10 Women are the poorest of all .
11 ‘ Very elderly ’ women over 75 were among the poorest of all .
12 Strong , virile performances of two of the finest of all Tudor settings of the Mass come from the choir of St John 's College Cambridge on a label not normally associated with early music , mid-price EMI Eminence .
13 Until his knees failed him and the cartilages were removed , he was also one of the finest of all cover fielders , with electrifying speed and a pin-point throw that seemed barely credible .
14 You are regarded by many competent judges as one of the finest of all conductors of the music of Verdi and Puccini , which is a rare distinction for an Austrian- or German-born conductor .
15 Nevertheless it is widely believed to be the finest of all the remaining gates of the Spanish walls .
16 Béroff 's Vingt Regards was the set I first came to know well ( I vividly remember receiving it as a Christmas present the year it was first released ) and it has always struck me as the finest of all the recorded versions .
17 This series of Czech quartet discs is among the finest of all the Lindsay 's recording projects to date .
18 But the finest of all the variegated grasses must surely be Holcus mollis , with snow-white stripes .
19 And here too , are ten Munros , lending themselves admirably to a complete traverse from end to end in one of the finest of all mountain expeditions but one needing the expertise of experience .
20 Op. 2 contains one of the finest of all German songs , ‘ Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm ’ , which is perhaps best suited to a male voice .
21 It was Napoleon — the First , not the Third — who established this tremendous promenade from which , in clear or even clearish weather , you get what is prized , and rightly so , as the finest of all long-range views of the Pyrenees .
22 The only fantasia in Parthenia is Gibbons 's ‘ of foure parts ’ , which is appropriate for it is one of the finest of all the keyboard fantasias .
23 One of the finest of all , ‘ Gelosia ’ , published in 1646 , opens with a great passionate outburst : which is followed by a nine-bar aria in triple time and a fast arioso ; the whole scheme is then twice repeated , very freely .
24 The finest of all is Old College .
25 The Marriner version of Capriccio , very beautifully played with not a hint of sentimentality , earns a recommendation both for the quality of sound — the finest of any here — which is full , clear and atmospheric and — more surprisingly — for the coupling .
26 The finest of these thin threads of glass are extremely soft and flexible , and are a light golden brown in colour .
27 Probably the finest of these garments were used to adorn wooden cult images of the goddess .
28 Among the finest of these currently available are those by Reinhard Goebel 's Cologne Musica Antiqua ( Archiv , 4/85 ) , the Amsterdam Bach Soloists ( Ottavo , 8/89 ) and Jordi Savall 's Hespèrion XX ( Astrée , 11/88 ) .
29 Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother .
30 The finest of these is the house of Jacques Coeur in Bourges ( 441 ) .
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