Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freddie poured a measure of whisky into a coronation mug . |
| 2 | Hence the glass of whisky at the dispatch box rather than mineral water : A premature celebration ? |
| 3 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 4 | She picked up a barely touched bottle of whisky from the dining-room table , frowning faintly as she studied its label . |
| 5 | On covered surfaces soil and vegetation maintains a continuous presence of moisture on the rock surface while organic decay increases the quantity of organic acids and the abundance of carbon dioxide ; both increase the aggressiveness of the water percolating on to the rock surface . |
| 6 | The golden iridescence of Cassida and its allies is produced by a film of moisture beneath the surface cuticle . |
| 7 | PROPOSALS to form a Premier League second division were thrown out as England 's top clubs achieved a rare showing of unity at a London meeting yesterday . |
| 8 | As indicated above , the Cuban revolution induced Soviet leaders to modify the view ( hitherto almost as firmly believed in the Kremlin as in the White House ) that the Latin American nations were destined to remain trapped in a position of subservience to the United States . |
| 9 | We would like to propose that many of the gestural sequences , both those directed towards the state of play on the football pitch and those occurring in the interactional posturing between rival fans , can be understood metonymically . |
| 10 | But even from that the soaring fantasy needs to be pruned : Dryden believed Pericles to be Shakespeare 's earliest play , presumably his ugliest apprentice work , dug up from the pre-Titus Andronicus strata of foul papers ( in one of those great trunks that he probably left in the Mountjoys ' attic , in Silver Street , to be destroyed in the Great Fire ) , and now rewritten under pressure for a new kind of play for the Blackfriars stage . |
| 11 | Generally speaking , lateral water hazards run parallel with the line of play of a golf hole and they should be clearly marked with either red stakes or red lines . |
| 12 | I should like to reiterate those comments to you now as I believe they remain relevant : 1 ) Control the duration of play by an ice hockey-type clock to prevent time-wasting. 2 ) Players to have their names on the back of their shirts . |
| 13 | ‘ I assume you know the state of play in the admin assistants ’ dispute ? ’ |
| 14 | Rounding up the state of play in the RISC market , Digital Equipment Corp 's Alpha and the MIPS Technologies Inc 's R4000 part are already 64-bit . |
| 15 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 16 | Before exploring some of the attitudes held towards the issue of assessment by the arts teachers interviewed , it might help to look at the philosophies being advanced by them towards the teaching of their respective specialisms . |
| 17 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 18 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
| 19 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
| 20 | Spittals was still one inspector down on his personnel establishment and had not seen any evidence of progress on the Mills murder . |
| 21 | In short , as nuclear capabilities have developed and conventional forces become more global in their reach , it becomes possible to extend the canopy protecting the forces of progress from the United States and others who would arrest natural and necessary changes . |
| 22 | Your agency has made application for an Urban Programme grant in the round of grant submissions for 1993/94 , and this letter is to keep you informed of progress in the assessment process for such applications . |
| 23 | Unless we show that we are determined to proceed with the deployment of cruise and Pershing missiles , there will be no chance of progress in the arms control talks . |
| 24 | During the last stage of his visit Dole was unusually critical of Israeli policies and told journalists that US politicians and the public were becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress in the peace process . |
| 25 | There are contrasting styles of mineralisation in the Krupka orefield ( granite-related tin and tungsten ) , at Harrachov ( fissure-vein baryte and fluorite ) , and in the Jeseník district ( gold in black shales ) . |
| 26 | In the Southern Pennine Orefield , Laporte Industries Ltd continued to work the Sallet Hole fluorite mine and began exploitation of a lower-grade , replacement style of mineralisation in the Bradwell area . |
| 27 | This is the latest in a series of conflicts over the Baltic environment , including an escape of effluent from the chemicals complex on the river Dvina which poisoned large numbers of fish . |
| 28 | The key feature in the programme of differentiation of the stem cell is one of asymmetry . |
| 29 | Although the artefact may stand for a particular form of production , it can not be assumed that it will do so , or that the divisions which appear as significant from one perspective upon modern society will necessarily emerge as the major dimensions of differentiation in the object world . |
| 30 | This suggests some form of hysteresis in the DNA structure so that its exact behaviour depends on its history . |