Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun sg] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have taken a little time to sketch the history of paragraph 16.5 of Code C in order to show that it is not directly linked to the ancient and deep-rooted privilege against self-incrimination . |
| 2 | The Romans were fond of lead vessels for food and drink and used lead-based glazes on pottery : lead poisoning was common and has even been proposed as a cause of the madness among high-ranking Romans which contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire . |
| 3 | The handmaids of the Everqueen are not mere courtiers ; they are her warrior guard — a hundred beautiful Elf-maids schooled in the arts of war till they exceed or even surpass the greatest of Elf knights with sword , bow and lance . |
| 4 | Another issue , as yet little studied or confronted , is that of gender differences in access to education and achievement at school . |
| 5 | In at least one case , that of Rhizobium bacteria in symbiosis with leguminous plants , substantial hydrogen is produced in the galls , though currently it simply escapes to the atmosphere . |
| 6 | A higher ratio of the concentration rate of protein to that of bile acids in gall bladder to hepatic beile as seen in the cholesterol gall stone patients than the gall stone free patients ( 0.75 ( 1.02 ) v 0.15 ( 0.11 ) , p<0.05 ) . |
| 7 | Miss Susan Purver has added to her role of Assistant Librarian that of College Computer Of ficer . |
| 8 | In contrasting the NPV rule with the IRR approach it is interesting to examine the implicit assumptions made by both regarding the reinvestment of interim cash flows , remembering that the technique of discounting is simply that of compound interest in reverse . |
| 9 | I divided my time between my hundreds of pet animals at home and the wild animals in the Wiltshire countryside . |
| 10 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 11 | Mutations in pros alter neuronal fates and delay or prevent pioneering of motor nerves during embryogenesis . |
| 12 | The light tools and guards van , as its name implies , carried a multitude of light equipment , over 160 items exclusive of hand tools in bulk . |
| 13 | [ For sentencing in early 1992 of border guards in connection with killings at the Wall see pp. 38736-37 ; 38782 . ] |
| 14 | So integral of sine X with respect to X cos X |
| 15 | It is in the work of Edward Said that we can find the problematic of historicist forms of knowledge linked most forcibly to the question of European imperialism . |
| 16 | The most common goal conflicts are those of relationship goals versus autonomy goals . |
| 17 | Although plants lack any structures comparable to animal nerves , cells in a plant tissue are linked by plasmodesmata that have solute permeabilities and electrical conductivities nearly identical to those of gap junctions in animal tissues . |
| 18 | Among the cities most in danger around the world are : * Bangkok , which faces a sea level rise of six feet by 2010 ; * Shanghai , also threatened by a six feet rise , coupled with the danger that salt water would advance 40 miles up the Yangtze River , causing severe drinking water shortages ; * Hong Kong , where seas may engulf newly-reclaimed coastal land , and an increased frequency of typhoons , due to climate disruption , threaten the whole territory ; * Alexandria — the whole city " may disappear " unless major defence works are undertaken ; * Tokyo , which will need £40 billion of flood defences in order to protect new suburbs ; * Rio de Janeiro , whose tourist beaches and nearby coastal villages are in danger ; * London , where there is concern that the existing Thames flood barrier may prove insufficient . |
| 19 | A book with a title like this has to be full of choice bits of information that confirm what most of us who have been in the Services have always known — that high-ranking officers can do the daftest things . |
| 20 | Equally , speaker A may be said to use more of variant X in situation Y than in situation Z , rather than categorically to use X in either situation . |
| 21 | Maxwell said : ‘ We were uncertain of government guidelines in relation to particular groups on this issue . ’ |
| 22 | However , detailed investigations of these structures suggest that much of this large-scale lateral movement is accomplished by the spreading or sliding of rock masses under gravity ( see Section 7.3 ) . |
| 23 | WELCOME BACK : A special antiques roadshow is up and running to save hundreds of thousands of museum artefacts from decay and ruin . |
| 24 | Late again : Thousands of rail commuters on Network SouthEast were late for work today and British Rail said leaves on the line were again to blame . |
| 25 | Thousands of research reports for example , annually die a sad , but predictable death , because the authors mistakenly believe their efforts should end once the report has been delivered to management . |
| 26 | Thus , a full-time sequencing laboratory will need to produce thousands of sequencing templates per week , in order to make full use of several ABI machines . |
| 27 | THOUSANDS of classroom teachers in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales are being underpaid by up to £2,500 annually because of a government error , one of the largest teachers unions claimed yesterday . |
| 28 | This bias was detectable when assessors were relatively unfamiliar with the students being assessed , and were aware of gender information through use of first names . |
| 29 | Jahsaxa was aware of hir change of heart . |
| 30 | This originally had two large diameter undershot wheels , both of iron construction with timber floats . |