Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When planners put forward proposals to build a road right through a beautiful stretch of country or to quarry an unspoiled area of a national park , The Ramblers ' Association puts up strong opposition . |
| 2 | Rather , it acts to keep open a line of communication right through the vital terrain of the past , an important sector of the battlefield for faith . |
| 3 | Tom Shakeshaft , who is 15 , reveals his dismay at plans to drive a dual carriageway right through the beautiful piece of countryside where he lives . |
| 4 | After the Restoration of Charles II Mabbott petitioned successfully for the lucrative office of manager for licences of wine and strong waters in Ireland for himself and his eldest surviving son , Kympton , then aged seven , letters patent being granted in January 1661 . |
| 5 | Against the left-hand wall was an assortment of canvas and metal chairs neatly stacked , presumably for the occasional use of the parochial church council . |
| 6 | Agriculture in the south has been restricted to stock-raising , mostly for the local consumption of whaling communities , on some of the peripheral and cool temperate islands . |
| 7 | Britain began to slip badly as a competitive producer of films , and the national market was increasingly ceded to imports from France and America . |
| 8 | And I would suggest sir that somewhere between the lower end of the figures cooked on my left here and the County Council 's figures . |
| 9 | Like Ride and TFC , Five Thirty have bypassed this year 's indie/dance revolution , basing their success instead on a new guitar-dominated sound that lies somewhere between the caustic experimentation of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth and the more accessible pop sound of the '60s bands like The Byrds and The Who . |
| 10 | Like Ride and TFC , Five Thirty have bypassed this year 's indie/dance revolution , basing their success instead on a new guitar-dominated sound that lies somewhere between the caustic experimentation of My Bloody Valentine or Sonic Youth and the more accessible pop sound of the '60s bands like The Byrds and The Who . |
| 11 | So , the situation in that is quite serious and it behoves us to take it seriously , it behoves us to make sure that if we are putting resources of that magnitude or of any magnitude perhaps , then we have to make sure that they are managed properly for the effective delivery of the services which we intend er that them to be used for . |
| 12 | Domestic exports performed badly during the first half of 1990 , but growth in the re-export trade partly compensated . |
| 13 | We have talked loosely about the original atmosphere of the Earth , and the way in which it affected and perhaps still affects life . |
| 14 | As usual it will be less well-off smokers who suffer most as a disproportionate amount of their income will be swallowed up in tax . ’ |
| 15 | Diana was teased mercilessly about a framed photograph of Prince Charles , taken at his Investiture in 1969 , which hung in her school dormitory . |
| 16 | She too exhibits both a fascination and a scepticism with regard to structuralist theories of the text , manifest in Thru as a healthy mistrust of theory whenever it becomes over-systematic . |
| 17 | We will consult widely about the detailed structure of this new qualification , and finalise proposals quickly . |
| 18 | Not bad for a rain-soaked island somewhere off the northern coast of Europe . |
| 19 | But mainly these diseases have now been er controlled if not completely eradicated and as a result the world 's population is er is likely to zoom up as you can see right off the top end of the , of the graph and we 're expecting something like eight billion people er and , and still rising at the end of the , of the century and it 'll be some time way into the next century before the world 's population actually starts to er er to level out . |
| 20 | Cut a little off the wide base of the large cake so that it will sit firmly as the domed body of the clown . |
| 21 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 22 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 23 | Not since Harold Wilson prattled on about the white heat of the technological revolution — or some similar meaningless platitude — and launched Concorde , has there been so much talk about innovation and our intellectual heritage . |
| 24 | EJC amplitude in aneural muscle does not increase significantly through the end of embryogenesis. b , Earlier studies indicated that the initial increase in EJC amplitude occurs predominantly through the lateral movement of existing gluRs ( 14–16h AEL ) and latterly ( 16h onward ) by the increased expression of gluRs at the synaptic site . |
| 25 | The LIFESPAN username has been created successfully as an immediate descendant of the requesting user ( this can not be altered ) . |
| 26 | In the hippy era images filtered weakly through a hairy sea of tangled tresses . |
| 27 | Angell said little about the vested interest of arms manufacturers in war scares , or of financial speculators in international instability . |
| 28 | Motives are very difficult to uncover , and , even if we could know them , they would reveal little about the likely course of foreign policy . |
| 29 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |