Example sentences of "of [noun] [coord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durrell took a slug of whisky and broke into an immediate ‘ I 'm not able to begin ‘ ta / praise the wondrous Araminta /I would like to say with flourish /what kind thoughts of her I nourish /A tangle though my thoughts get inta / describing love as Araminta ’ . |
| 2 | He was responsible for the exploitation of the mineral rights of the Crown — for example , for finding , mining and smelting iron in the forest of Chippenham and in the Forest of Dean and lead in the Forest of the Peak . |
| 3 | The greatest value of all such bulk matter , however , is not in the nutrient content , but in its effect on the soil structure , its retention of moisture and harbouring of the bacteria . |
| 4 | The Forest Of Shadows encompasses most of the principality of Ostland and lies to the north of the Middle Mountains . |
| 5 | Where the issue of assessment and examining in the arts becomes problematical is in those instances where the justification can be seen to be overtly influenced by external factors . |
| 6 | With the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications , people undertaking training in the industry will have to become accustomed to new programmes of training and assessment , new City and Guilds numbers and new methods of assessment and testing as an essential part of their career pattern . |
| 7 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 8 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
| 9 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 10 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 11 | These sorts of rule-breaking are amenable to strategies of correction or control in a way that most forms of isolated crime can not be . |
| 12 | The hindquarters are the means of support and act as a leverage for locomotion . |
| 13 | Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support . |
| 14 | Whatever level of public expenditure proves practicable , and however it is distributed , the primary source of support and care for the elderly people are informal and voluntary … |
| 15 | In a lengthy study of Britain it addressed in particular what it described as the " rather fashionable " debate on the imminence of change and decline in the Anglo-American relationship . |
| 16 | The main work-load on programming , the implementation of change and steering through the necessary mass of procedures and consultation to successful conclusion has fallen to my department 's team leaders , and in particular to Ruth in Personnel and training . |
| 17 | But a major research project at the University of Bristol , led by Professor Ian Silver of the Department of Pathology and funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board in the late 1970s , was unable to find any scientific evidence for the efficacy of this bizarre treatment . |
| 18 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 19 | The Commission 's other research findings — that much of forensic science is far from certain , capable of misinterpretation and relies upon the defence to draw out its limitations — only add to the need for the defence to have already access to real defence experts . |
| 20 | Despite these reservations , we can say something of the landscape of the Saxon Deerhurst estate , because , even without the fine detail , we can see vast areas of arable and pasture in the Severn Valley , areas of woodland and waste to the west over the river , and upland pasture on the Cotswolds to the east in a detached part of the estate . |
| 21 | Age Concern would welcome an attempt to introduce a single unified system and favours an element of formality and monitoring with a local and ‘ user-friendly ’ face . |
| 22 | This involves exclusive dealing and retail price maintenance in return for which consumers are guaranteed a degree of protection and recompense in the case of financial failure of a tour operator . |
| 23 | The collapse first of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and consequent withdrawal of protection and influence from the states of the Empire — England , France , Germany , Spain — and , later , the phased withdrawals of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire eastwards to Byzantium , left behind chaos , disruption and the total collapse of Roman civilised life in the countries of western Europe . |
| 24 | Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre . |
| 25 | This is a small cruciform building ( 33 by 39 feet ) , situated behind the church of S. Vitale , made of brick and covered by a central dome . |
| 26 | The aisles have moulded parapets , the walls are of flint , the north porch is partly of brick and has near the door a benatura . |
| 27 | The four-storey flour mill built of brick and weatherboarding on the River Lea dates from the early nineteenth century , and cast-iron columns were used , relatively early , for the interior structure . |
| 28 | In essence , it proposes the introduction of a system of checks and balances into the boardrooms of UK listed companies , to be administered by non-executive directors according to a prescribed code of best practice and to be given force by public disclosure of compliance . |
| 29 | These votes came after a long and stormy debate ; some deputies warned of the dangers of dictatorship because the proposed new presidency lacked an adequate system of checks and balances by the legislature , and argued that a switch to presidential rule was premature . |
| 30 | Surprisingly , perhaps , to advocates of ‘ free ’ markets , this does not result in a lack of dynamism or a neglect of issues of co-ordination and control at the strategic apexes of industry in Japan . |