Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marquis managed to pour the brandy without spilling it , his face chalk-white as the ramifications of Horatia 's return began to dawn on him . |
| 2 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend is entirely right about the merits of competition . |
| 4 | The Home Office may think it necessary on security grounds to make regular changes , perhaps believing that it would be undesirable for the routines of governors to be known to the general public . |
| 5 | ‘ I am proud to die for my ideals ; and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why . ’ |
| 6 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 7 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
| 8 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 9 | Was a workable modus vivendi then possible between the rulers of England and France , even within the limits set by the peace of Paris ? |
| 10 | Norman Tebbit , his blood pressure returned to near normal after the frustrations of debate , was exercising his somewhat malign charm over a group of columnists . |
| 11 | What is similar and what is different about the jobs of people in Northwich ? |
| 12 | Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’ |
| 13 | While you will not want to overstate the coercive nature of a witness summons or subpoena you must be clear about the consequences of non-attendance . |
| 14 | Mr Leigh-Pemberton , however , sounded a stark warning to the Cabinet not to take risks with inflation : ‘ We have to be very clear about the objectives of policy . |
| 15 | Accordingly , the differences of disciplinary interests mean that one needs to be very careful about the kinds of problems that are being addressed . |
| 16 | We have seen how von Frisch proved von Hess wrong about the sensitivities of fish ( p. 43 ) . |
| 17 | The Daimler is entirely adequate for the needs of Mirror Group Newspapers ' current chairman , Ernie Burrington , says Ted . |
| 18 | However , precisely because they can make such fine distinctions at the lexical level , they may well prove unstable for the purposes of recognition . |
| 19 | As he made his way back to the van , the thought did occur to him that it might be prudent to stay clear of the likes of Terry Littlejohn . |
| 20 | Senior officers were generally resentful of the attempts of politicians to interfere in military affairs and in the organization of the Empire , which was almost a military fiefdom . |
| 21 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 22 | The moment of the break is not transcendent but it is a breaking free of the determinations of ideology — a moment in which the presuppositions that determine ideology are transformed by a critical response to them . |
| 23 | Although free of the horrors of Bosnia it 's difficult to imagine what nightmares the refugees endure in the security of their makeshift British accommodation . |
| 24 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
| 25 | Stanford University Hospital is the Hippocratic show-piece of America , whose government-sponsored research surges forward free of the confines of budget . |
| 26 | To watch him then was such a mingled joy of yearning and pity that sometimes , frightened of her waking thoughts but more afraid of the nightmares of sleep , she would carry her night-light into his bedroom and crouch by the cot for an hour or more , her eyes fixed on his sleeping face , her restlessness soothed by his peace . |
| 27 | The symbolic reproduces this imaginary in discrete , regulated entities — small , discontinuous , easily consumable like the bits of information on a computer screen , like the items in the supermarket , like the small , framed and mirrored segments of the glass-skinned skyscrapers that offer us gleaming reflections of our lives from moment to moment in the high-income , high-tech regions of the American urban environment . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's OK against the likes of Romania and the USA , but I do n't think they 'd be as impressive as that against England or New Zealand ’ , said Ondarts . |
| 29 | In one of those little quirks so popular with the writers of Hollywood biopics , it is recorded that " the rate at which the apparatus was capable of working was discovered accidentally , in consequence of the breaking of a spring " . |
| 30 | The British soldiers , both the officers and the rank and file , seemed to be very popular with the inhabitants of Verona . |