Example sentences of "of [det] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underlined letters of each country make up the word . |
| 2 | When the World Student Games were held in Sheffield , the sound of the starting pistol at the beginning of each race sparked off a peace demo against the use of firearms . |
| 3 | The first section of that document set out a powerful ‘ case for a common curriculum in secondary education to 16 ’ . |
| 4 | The Combined Studies Board in October of that year set up a special working party to discuss a variety of difficulties being encountered , including resource constraints facing the BA in Music at Huddersfield Polytechnic , acute accommodation difficulties facing the creative arts course at Newcastle Polytechnic , and poor recruitment and various kinds of dissatisfaction at some other institutions . |
| 5 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 6 | Comments on the meaning of this construction bring out an interesting contrast between the infinitive and a that-clause , which will help to explain the use of to before the infinitive here . |
| 7 | You see , a tour of this magnitude throws up a forest of red tape for the intrepid journo to fight through and you can spend practically a whole day being shuffled from one ‘ no ’ man to the next , understandably concerned to protect their baby from unofficial liggers and prowling hacks . |
| 8 | The balance of this manifesto sets out the Liberal Democrat vision of the future : our long-term programme for government . |
| 9 | As a result , it looks as though any rethink of this weekend goes up the spout in favour of the ghastliness of paper for the beastly bureaucrats . |
| 10 | Identification of this group opens up the problem of the date of the king 's baptism , and by extension the chronology as well as the interpretation of the second half of his reign . |
| 11 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 12 | The back of this house looked over a lawn full of chestnuts and beech , through an avenue of espaliered pears next to a Beatrix Potter asparagus patch , down to the water meadows of the Avon . |
| 13 | In relation to the concept of a new settlement the Department very firmly has an open mind at a time , we 've heard many statements drawing on the various P P G s , and from some of them you might have been excused for thinking that the Department had indeed turned it turned its back on the idea of a n new settlements , knowing that sort of situation we felt it appropriate before the start of this examination to sound out the residents of two Marscham Street |
| 14 | So they w they came out of this working man 's club on top of this hill pulled out the whole thing and all the balls rolled out . |
| 15 | This agreement , in the form of a declaration by governments to change their criminal law , would mean placing an obligation on banks to check the identity of any customer carrying out a one-off transaction worth more than 15,000 European currency units ( ECU1.00=US$1.37255 as at Dec. 17 , 1990 ) , and to report any suspicious dealings to the national authorities . |
| 16 | The very efficiency of any improvement speeded up the lowering of the land as the peat dried and ‘ wasted ’ through the activities of bacteria and fungi . |
| 17 | 2.14 The Landlord shall procure that the obligations of the contractor under clause of the Building Contract are complied with within the period applicable but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 [ of this agreement and in clause [ s ] of the Lease ] the Landlord shall with effect from the Certificate Date be under no liability to the Tenant in respect of any failure to carry out the Works in accordance with clauses 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 ( save as regards matters specified in any Defects Notice which were not remedied to the Surveyor 's [ reasonable ] satisfaction ) The part of this clause commencing … but ( save as provided in clause 16.3 … to the end of the clause should be deleted , as a tenant may consider it unreasonable for a landlord to exempt itself from liability in this manner . |