Example sentences of "of the [noun] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the villages rarely see tourists and the most humble visitors are treated like VIPs . |
| 2 | Between the stone-laying and the opening of the church there took place another , less publicized , ceremony . |
| 3 | Loyal subjects of the Imperium always feared hulks . |
| 4 | But the lonely sound of her own voice in the emptiness of the hut immediately made Isabel wonder why Guy was taking so long . |
| 5 | In modern times churches and theatres were the only buildings which were designed to cope with crowds , and they offered no real clues to the scale of the problem now facing station architects . |
| 6 | Okay , I do n't know whether I repeatedly er , members of the council like to ask questions about the structure so they can ask , and I can move on , so |
| 7 | Similarly , the thematic structure of the novel vaguely follows Propp 's paradigm : Armel takes Larissa into matrimony only to betray her ; Stavro , a gallant but naïve young man , ‘ saves ’ Larissa , begging her to marry him and go with him to Peru , or : ‘ The anti-hero anti-rescuing her from an anti-monster in an anti-romanzo ’ ( 149/727 ) . |
| 8 | The construction of the novel merely corroborates Nizan 's awareness of the difficulty of formulating accurate historical judgements in the on-going and open-ended situation of the contemporary period . |
| 9 | The extreme lightness of the diaphragm further assists fidelity by responding instantaneously to very tiny signals and transients , and the proximity to the listener 's ears means that the sounds are not subject to the vagaries of directivity and unwanted reflections . |
| 10 | At the ICI Polyurethanes ' plant at Geismar , USA , most of the processes now recycle part or all of the waste they produce . |
| 11 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 12 | On 6th November 1689 Dobson was appointed Schoolmaster of Macclesfield ( at a salary of £60 a year ) , but a faction of the Governors there installed Caleb Pott instead . |
| 13 | However the narrative of Henshall 's work appeals to sentiment , the flushed face of the child here denotes ill-health as does her inert pose over the knee of her grandfather , whose exhausted face and poverty-stricken surroundings indicate that there is no help in the short or the long term . |
| 14 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 15 | Hannah Hauxwell , left and the carving of poet Richard Watson Hannah unveils plaque to poet HANNAH Hauxwell , the famous daughter of the Dales yesterday paid tribute to a famous son of Middleton-in-Teesdale . |
| 16 | She could even cut the mustard in one of the magazines specifically featuring chicks with big tits . |
| 17 | Her shoes were of the kind then called ward shoes , with low heels , one strap , and a little metal star on the front for ornamentation . |
| 18 | Arthur Morrison 's subsequent descriptions in A Child of the Jago ( 1896 ) of the clothes in fashion among the cosh-carrying denizens of the slums again resembled Mayhew 's costers . |
| 19 | It is extremely difficult to construct a cost-of-living index for governmental expenditure and the most one can say is that , very roughly , the ordinary revenue of the Crown probably kept pace with inflation , but did not increase in real terms to meet the larger calls being made upon government . |
| 20 | The military demands of the crown also aroused opposition , both to the methods of arraying men for service and the levying of money to pay their wages and provide their equipment . |
| 21 | The farmhouse is the one with the front garden on the left of the road now called Court Hill . |
| 22 | Before the turn of the century fully mousseux wines were referred to simply as vins mousseux , sauté bouchant , flaçon mousseux or vins de Pérignon . |
| 23 | The absence of a train-shed from the Gare d'Orsay was symptomatic of the change about to overtake station-building . |
| 24 | But in this sense , creativity of the writer also requires creativity from the reader , who must fill in the gaps of sense with an associative logic of his own . |
| 25 | Darlington 's John Housan and John Kennedy shot the only other seven par rounds of the day both returning scores of 71 . |
| 26 | Jessamy spent the rest of the day deliberately avoiding Julius . |
| 27 | The veteran comic and singer Des O'Connor was named ITV Personality of the Year after beating Clive Anderson and last year 's winner , Michael Barrymore . |
| 28 | The singer Des O'Connor was named ITV personality of the year after beating Clive Anderson and last year 's winner , Michael Barrymore . |
| 29 | Staff estimated that this very stiff target was attained relatively rarely , so that , at most , one in five of the prisoners actually received pay on any one day . |
| 30 | Species that were numerous around the boat and which were caught for a cursory examination only ’ were released again alive , ‘ the operation ’ , Gould maintained , giving ‘ not the least pain to the bird , the point of the hook merely taking hold in the horny and insensible tip of the beak . ’ |