Example sentences of "of [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's kind of upset about Mahoney . |
| 2 | They have caused a lot of upset in our family . |
| 3 | McDonald 's two-over-par round of 70 at Banff , coupled with a 69 at Fraserburgh in the first round , gave him a one-over aggregate of 139 and the Uniroyal Quaich for the first time at the age of 39 . |
| 4 | The members of the Comité Colbert , an association of 70 of France 's biggest luxury companies , increased their sales by a quarter in 1989 to $5.4 billion . |
| 5 | It all started with the idea of re-establishing the archive of the Verein Berliner Kunstlerinnen ( Association of Women Artists in Berlin ) which was destroyed during the second world war and developed into a journey of discovery , which has reached this point with the following achievements : 1200 women artists on record ; many works discovered ; the archive set up ; a profusely illustrated catalogue ( in fact the word catalogue does not give an idea of the range of articles contained in it since it covers the history of women artists in German-speaking countries , to art-business oriented articles , to facets of the history of the association , followed by a chronological development of the association and a full catalogue of the works on show , divided into sections , as they are in the exhibition ) ; a dictionary with short biographies of 1200 artists and 700 friends of art called Kathe , Paula und der ganze Rest — Ein Nachschlagewerk ( Kathe , Paula and the rest of the bunch ! — A Reference Book ) , which has caused something of a stir ; and of course , finally , the exhibition showing the works of 70 of the members and guests of the association over its 125 year life , which includes 250 works loaned by 100 institutions and individuals . |
| 6 | The ruling Congress ( I ) party won control of 70 of the 95 municipal committees in municipal elections held in Punjab on Sept. 6 . |
| 7 | There will be a field of 70 for today 's first big event of the amateur season , the Berkhamsted Trophy , writes Bill Meredith . |
| 8 | Beck had a final round of 70 for a 12-under par total of 276 , but it was a tight finish , particularly when he bunkered his second shot behind the 18th green . |
| 9 | ‘ Golf is improved so much all over the world , ’ says Baker-Finch , the Open champion who followed his first round of 70 with a 69 , ‘ and the Aussies have a lot of potential . ’ |
| 10 | The game ended with Borders reaching their target of 70 with two overs to spare despite some good bowling from Euan ‘ Curtly ’ Kennedy and the ageless Gavin Irving . |
| 11 | ANOTHER Great Central Railway stalwart has been in the news recently , when Ella Thorpe reached the grand young age of 70 on Friday , July 3 . |
| 12 | ‘ If you take sugar as having 100 per cent the right taste , then I would say sucralose is in the range of 70 to 75 per cent , with aspartame a little behind it , ’ Shaw says . |
| 13 | A site of 70 to 80 acres was found in 1967 by a field group and confirmed by excavation and air survey on the eastern fringe of Oundle , Northants . |
| 14 | They are usually made in grades of 70 to 80-line , with a ⅜″ ( 1 cm ) pile , and can be extremely attractive and authentic in appearance . |
| 15 | ICAM-1 , the intercellular adhesion molecule-1 represents a cell surface bound glycoprotein of 70 to 110 kilodaltons ( kDa ) . |
| 16 | Referral rate for specialised opinion was 51 per million total population yearly with an estimated appropriate referral rate of 70 per million per year . |
| 17 | He had scored only three half centuries for England , with a previous top-score of 70 against New Zealand last winter and admitted : ‘ This is the sort of innings I would like to play more often for England . ’ |
| 18 | When President Nixon put all US forces on a heightened state of alert during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 , it ‘ meant ’ that he was worried and ready to intervene . |
| 19 | If you think that this assignment is , is sort of preferable to the ones that you 've been looking , you could all choose this one , you 'll have to do some recording like the others on your own machines , but you could |
| 20 | Flapping of intervocalic in hit it . |
| 21 | The VPP500 system features a series of 1.6 GigaFLOPS vector processors , in parallel configurations of from seven to 222 , offering performances of 11.2 to 355 GFLOPS — the nodes can be added one at a time . |
| 22 | β is varied between -1.0 and +0.5 which implies a range of -3 to +2Wm -2 for Q s ( -1.3 to +0.8% irradiance change ) . |
| 23 | The highest numbers of the year occur in September , when flocks totalling 3,000 or more are not unusual in these Harbours ; the highest count so far was of 4,200 on 5 September 1971 . |
| 24 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 25 | In one daring Beechingesque stroke , VIA Rail , the national passenger service , will cut its 405 trains a week to 191 , and its workforce of 7,000 to 4,000 . |
| 26 | Sketches from local artist Muriel Sibley and photographs from local newspapers including the Liverpool Echo , illustrate the growth of Formby from a sleepy village of 7,000 to a suburban town , now home to almost 30,000 people . |
| 27 | Allocate the first round of new nursing posts towards the target of 7,000 in two years . |
| 28 | ( The choice of clockwise for + is arbitrary and probably due to thinking of the turn R as clockwise . ) |
| 29 | The straightforward analysis of previous ‘ dustings ’ , cleanings and restorations , from the fire damage of 1771 to the removal of the famous fig-leaves is particularly welcome . |
| 30 | While the newcomers consider the absence of street-lighting to be dangerous , particularly in the winter , the locals , who claim they have always been able to manage without it , regard it as an ugly and unnecessary intrusion . |