Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover his duties had become more onerous for he was now teaching — still free of charge as the Founder 's will required — pupils from outside the area of the " towne of Stopforde [ and ] of other Townes thereabout " which had originally been stipulated . |
| 2 | Momentarily bereft of speech as the sharp pain in her ankle began to subside , Gina could only glare at him . |
| 3 | Arab diplomats compared the future role of Tunis with that of Geneva as the UN 's " alternative " centre . |
| 4 | This rather petty , predictably prosaic fiction is ultimately as vindictively misrepresentative of Nizan as the fictional account of Nizan 's existence in Simone Tery 's Beaux en/ants qui n'hesitez pas , published in 1957 , is fatuously misrepresentative , Tery 's fictional transposition of Nizan in the character of Pierre Dumont merely submerges the reality of Nizan 's life beneath a flood of naive communist rhetoric . |
| 5 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |
| 6 | On Tuesday Marion Tait was superbly tragic as the older sister , Karen Donovan full of spite as the jealous one , and Anita Landa fiercely repressive as the mother , while Joseph Cipolla gave due emphasis to the pelvic thrusts of which his role chiefly consists . |
| 7 | In that work it is possible to see clearly the relation between his insistence on totality and the Romantic aesthetic of totality as the inner necessity that moulds all works of art . |
| 8 | Murat and the French Ambassador , La Forest , saw the 2nd of May as the opportunity for one of those severe lessons which had been so effective in Naples . |
| 9 | As the debate rages on , the Government will surely not attempt to deny that the moneys provided in the Bill will be regarded by thousands of miners as the prelude to the Government 's plan to privatise the coal industry . |
| 10 | And they began it in thirteen sixty , the time when York was just beginning to become er the most of importance as the second city of medieval England . |