Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [Wh adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen . |
| 2 | Although , from a tax point of view , an assets purchase is relatively straightforward , there are many commercial reasons why an acquisition of Target may be preferred by both vendor and Newco , even though Target may have unquantified liabilities . |
| 3 | This is attributed mainly to historical reasons whereby the function of external agreements in the UK has been largely procedural , rather than substantive . |
| 4 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 5 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 6 | In addition , the Scheme allows for payment to be made in some cases where the assessment of probability of causation would be insufficient for liability to be established in the courts . |
| 7 | We found , however , some cases where the definition of reasonableness had become a bone of contention and subject to tense renegotiation , especially by Japanese investors . |
| 8 | Rather , indicate in a few words how the rest of your answer would proceed if you had time . |
| 9 | Four types of areas were created for general practice : designated areas where the size of G.P. lists were the highest through to intermediate and restricted areas where G.P. list sizes were the lowest . |
| 10 | There can be few jurisdictions where the location of a major university programme was determined by the location of the oldest prison . |
| 11 | The quality of translation here , with its simpering rhythms and bathetic language , proves that in this matter the major publishers have moved on hardly at all from the bad old days when the employment of unskilled amateurs or stilted romantics in translation work marred the English publication of some of the great accounts of European mountaineering . |
| 12 | Forty years Where a term of more than forty years is created the tenant may , after the expiry of twenty-five years of the term , apply to the court for the discharge of any restriction affecting the user of the demised property ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s84(12) ) . |
| 13 | A similar effect is seen in British woodlands where the maintenance of traditionally disturbing management ( like coppicing ) keeps up species numbers of animals and plants , whereas abandoning of such management leads to a decline . |
| 14 | The little history of the period that has survived is an invaluable asset , but there are great dangers in using archaeological data to elucidate chronologically-based historical problems when the span of as little as a generation is so crucial . |
| 15 | There were some constituencies where the interest of a local patron was so strong that he effectively had the power of nominating MPs . |
| 16 | However , there are some instances where a change of control can affect the underlying assets . |
| 17 | Tens of thousands took to the streets in Baku alone , up to sixty people ( mostly Armenians ) lost their lives in pogroms , and there were further fatalities when a state of emergency was declared by the USSR Presidium and troops were used to restore order on 19–20 January . |
| 18 | They are a development of the system of weirs and flash locks where a stretch of water was impounded to provide a good depth of water to flush or ‘ flash ’ a boat along its way . |
| 19 | Indeed , in social systems where the position of social rebels is not recognized , such as that of Soviet Russia , you are likely to be reckoned as insane anyway . |
| 20 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 21 | Reference might be made to East European countries where the structure of society and the public library 's function in that society is somewhat different to the Western world . |
| 22 | But there can be practical difficulties in implementing this , particularly in small and medium-sized companies where the number of treasury transactions does not warrant employing several staff . |
| 23 | It is , however , unrealistic to expect all of these to be visible in all locations , especially in rural areas where the balance of tenures differs considerably from the national picture . |
| 24 | There were six cases where the relevance of homosexuality was evident . |
| 25 | However , the High Court of Justiciary considered the supply of excisable liquor outwith the permitted hours where an extension of the permitted hours had been granted for the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to persons taking a table meal , and the liquor had been supplied to persons who had not requested or been provided with a meal . |
| 26 | Describe in no more than 100 words how the production of sweet white wines varies from that of dry white wines . |
| 27 | Symptoms of sickle cell anaemia are seldom manifest before the age of six months when the level of circulating fetal haemoglobin falls to the adult level . |
| 28 | What the insurance companies have been trying to do is make things fairer for the policy holders , by charging householders extra premiums where the risk of subsidence is higher . |
| 29 | The data come mainly from industrialised countries where the pattern of STDs differs from that in Africa . |
| 30 | A bit-pattern index can extend the use of serial files when the number of attributes is limited , but a break-even point will occur somewhere between 20 000 and 100000 records , depending on record size , number of possible attributes and the complexity of Boolean conditions required . |