| The book reveals the author's encyclopaedic knowledge of the hundreds of aristocratic families and their houses all over Ireland. |
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| Do you panic when snooty sommeliers thrust an encyclopaedic wine list at you and you know that they will be back in a minute demanding an answer? |
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| But unfortunately much of that information, that encyclopaedic knowledge of their environment is being lost. |
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| He had a real passion for his beloved native city and a completely encyclopaedic knowledge of its highways, byways and history. |
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| However encyclopaedic your knowledge of antiques, if you're blind as a bat, forget it. |
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| His knowledge of the cuisine of different regions of India is encyclopaedic. |
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| But with such encyclopaedic resources, some dustiness of tone is perhaps inevitable. |
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| He was involved in numerous projects, was an excellent teacher, and was known for his encyclopaedic knowledge. |
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| His expertise in the disarmament field and encyclopaedic knowledge of the Conference on Disarmament are well known in this room. |
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| It's fully-loaded with an encyclopaedic fact file on ammunition utilised. |
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| I read nothing now that has the sense of underlying theme, encyclopaedic knowledge, and actual conveyance of wisdom that you can find in these three. |
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| The programmer will need to enter, laboriously, for each word in the system's lexicon, the different senses and the associated encyclopaedic knowledge. |
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| The Europe fanatic with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the last quarter-century of EU politics was supposed to settle down to memoir-scribbling. |
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| He is a prodigious writer with an encyclopaedic memory and quixotic tendencies. |
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| Elected to the Académie Française in 1685, he helped to compile an encyclopaedic dictionary. |
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| Neither encyclopaedic plans nor summaries help us to understand exactly where a country is heading. |
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| She had an encyclopaedic knowledge of broadcast technology, and could always gently steer a meeting to an agreement. |
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| The aim is to provide access to an encyclopaedic stock of information on occupational safety and health. |
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| Hence it offers an almost encyclopaedic insight into European industrial relations theory and practice. |
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| Their knowledge of musical theory, analysis, composition and the history of music ought to be encyclopaedic. |
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| Would it then be sufficient to change school curricula, to offer 'real' science and to get rid of encyclopaedic and 'fossilised' teaching? |
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| His years knocking around what was then known as the Far East as a freelance writer and journalist had given him an encyclopaedic knowledge of tropical conditions. |
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| His knowledge of musical theatre, in particular, was encyclopaedic. |
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| They are offering, through the latest media technologies, encyclopaedic film documentaries illustrating their discoveries, which are accessible to all. |
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| Damião de Góis, diplomat, humanist, and intimate friend of the scholar Desiderius Erasmus, possessed an encyclopaedic mind and was one of the most critical spirits of the age. |
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| Fellow Big Reds member Rizal Palapa boasts an almost encyclopaedic knowledge about Liverpool. |
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| This is an encyclopaedic work in fourteen volumes and combines Greek and Arabic medical systems, with the addition of Ibn Sina's personal experience. |
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| This book, published by the National Gallery in Washington, is an encyclopaedic reference for curators, conservators, scientists, art historians, and artists. |
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| Thus, limiting general knowledge to academic handbooks or encyclopaedic publications would not correspond any more to the reality of research and technical work. |
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| It may be very well to enumerate and calculate the powers of quarks and spins of photons, yet how could such an encyclopaedic set of characteristics sprout so levelheadedly from a meltdown? |
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| Such is the meaning of Da Vinci's encyclopaedic quest: by embracing all kinds of knowledge, the artist manages to invent a style of painting that is both realistic, formal, alive and intellectual. |
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| Keeping up with criminals in a borderless Europe is a growing challenge, particularly as the number of cases continues to grow and the volume of evidence collected for complex crimes can be encyclopaedic. |
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| The Discworld Companion, written with Stephen Briggs, is an encyclopaedic guide to Discworld. |
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| The Natural History is encyclopaedic in scope, but its format is unlike a modern encyclopaedia. |
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| A new agreement need not be encyclopaedic, as far as I am concerned, but it must make a number of absolutely essential elements binding on both parties. |
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| Rehnquist's reputation as a justice was based on his encyclopaedic knowledge of constitutional law, his conservative voting record, and his leadership of the court as it moved from generally liberal to mostly conservative. |
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| The expansion of knowledge and the pace of change in contemporary society is such that an encyclopaedic approach to education has become inappropriate. |
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| She always was very professional and had an encyclopaedic kind of knowledge of useful information, facts and research, to put into context the thing we might have been struggling with in the moment. |
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| Early entries, up to the year 110, probably came from one of the small encyclopaedic volumes of world history in circulation at the time the Chronicle was first written. |
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| The structure of the Deutsche Mythologie is fairly encyclopaedic. |
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