Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [adj] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Wherever the pub is , whether it 's in the docks or the full of the town , that does n't make much difference . |
2 | This money was to be handed out to things from athletic clubs and the poor of the South Teheran slums to encourage them to demonstrate in favour of the Shah . |
3 | Once , that was after Maman had gone , and when his own mother was distant , she had compelled him to eat a whole snail , slashing his legs with a nettle till he obeyed , and the stinging of the nettle really enlivened his dancing . |
4 | Why was it , thought Henry , that Elinor felt so in tune with the poor and the oppressed of the world ? |
5 | Smitten by war , the plains of Kyrenia were barren , and the sponge-divers of the Karpass had made barely a living . |
6 | The offer of Jesus is made to the sick , the poor and the bereaved of every nation , not just the Jews . |
7 | Perhaps I should point out here that there 's a distinction between the before and the after of an election . |
8 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
9 | Because there was a strike , because their own laboratories were idle , the high and the mighty of A area were prepare to squeeze in a visit from lowly Frederick Bissett of H3 . |
10 | Events at Three Mile Island and more recently Chernobyl were considered alongside accidents such as Kings Cross , the Clapham Rail disaster , and the capsize of the Herald of Free Enterprise . |
11 | Going around listening to the fat and the rich of the land confessing their secret sins , and secretly mocking us every time we reach a stone wall and can go no further ? |
12 | A navigating formation travels in a wedge shape , with dominant animals and perhaps those with developed sonar skills at the front , and the young of the herd protected in the centre . |
13 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |