Example sentences of "[art] [adj] of [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I think that what he has done is to try and meet the concerns which your Lordships have have expressed er i in second reading My Lords er I did think if I might say so with the greatest of respect for the Noble Lord , Lord Harris of Greenwich whom I admire en enormously and not for er only for his views which erm depending upon what the views are er that it depends upon my extended admiration |
| 2 | We append here some useful theorems and definitions : Theorem 1 — The reciprocal of the transpose of a matrix A is equal to the transpose of the reciprocal of A. For |
| 3 | There was only the slightest of pauses for communal reflection before twenty-nine pairs of shoes were duly launched at the teacher in charge . |
| 4 | After this the folk of Nagarythe became ever more desperate , relying more and more on the blackest of sorceries for their defence . |
| 5 | On April 3 , 1915 , Stoddart shot himself through the head — the saddest of ends for such a famous cricketer who had brought much brilliance to the game . |
| 6 | And those banks that lent more often had the worst of reasons for doing so : namely , the need to keep afloat borrowers whom their creditors could not afford to see sink . |
| 7 | At Southend the worst of times for Oxford … but nothing and nobody is ever going to stop goals like these … |
| 8 | Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say , or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it . |
| 9 | Stuart is having a social event on the eleventh of March for the media and the police , I 'll circulate this round with a er slip on it , erm it involves a conducted tour of the police station and some bits and bobs |
| 10 | The price er wi , we depart on the eleventh of September for eight days the usual additions , you know , the coach from here , and everything . |
| 11 | Young Ben Titford was born and raised in smelly , noisy Pig Street — a lively enough corner of the world , perhaps , but not the healthiest of places for all that . |
| 12 | It was again , one of the unheard of things for a Jewish man to do ! |
| 13 | I 'd think that I have seen enough to say that cricket could never be the be-all-and-end-all of life for me . |
| 14 | It was from the first of December for the address although they were actually |
| 15 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 16 | Exploration of the Dalradian of Scotland for both baryte and base metal mineralisation continued at a high level . |
| 17 | Willi had given them the briefest of explanations for their presence being required but they were becoming as alarmed as Gesner by this talk of lawsuits and the resignation of Franz Busacher . |
| 18 | There was no place like the thick of battle for settling an old score . |
| 19 | I , on behalf of all her other fans around the world , would like to wish her the best of luck for 1992 . |
| 20 | It was n't the best of mornings for camping out particularly under just a make-shift tent . |
| 21 | The Prince and Princess 's grandmothers have been the best of friends for most of their lives . |
| 22 | Consequently James would be directing The Best of Friends for half the day and Re:Joyce for the other . |
| 23 | THESE are the best of times for Moody 's and Standard & Poor 's ( S&P ) , the two American companies that dominate the world business of rating government and corporate debt . |
| 24 | These may not be the best of times for the venture capital industry , but they are far from disastrous . |
| 25 | Those nerve-racking hours , with the armies drawn up in battle array in sight of each other , can hardly have been the best of times for a calm discussion of the problem of the succession . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not been the best of times for us result-wise recently which makes it an even better performance . ’ |
| 27 | This is hardly the best of reasons for planting , and not the right attitude . |
| 28 | So let's have the best of order for the speakers please . |
| 29 | Not the best of sons for any mother . |
| 30 | Marks & Spencer has , we are sure , nothing but the best of intentions for Brooks Brothers , which is why it has given the American clothier the benefit of its most successful ideas . |