Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day of the battle dawned a hot May morning . |
| 2 | The significance of the user applying a similar strategy to library catalogues has not been realized . |
| 3 | She raised Skogen to her face and through it she saw Ghost of the Tree turn a quizzical and penetrating look upon her . |
| 4 | Each day they became fewer until my image of the tree became a pink and brown blur , it being blossom time . |
| 5 | What makes us greet the man is not an albeit swift chain of inference , it is his presence which commands the acknowledgement while the presence of the tree does no such thing . |
| 6 | Well for slings , getting bags out of the hold see the whole job was so interesting , when you were doing these jobs that was interesting all the time . |
| 7 | The loss is not only that of a magnificent animal : the decline of the elephant hurts the wider environment . |
| 8 | Each blade was forged from a solid nugget of the magic metal Gromril , worked under the light of the full moon , fired by the breath of the dragon Snarkul the Red , and cooled in daemon blood . |
| 9 | The Archbishop should be thoroughly ashamed of himself at the failure of the efforts of the Church to create a better society . |
| 10 | I know a man who , on being offered a particular post , was warned by those in authority that they should ‘ be taking a close interest in the progress of your work there in order to be assured that the style of ministry of the church observes an Anglican ethos . ’ |
| 11 | His influence was evident in the egalitarian wording of the proclamation declaring an Irish republic , published on Easter Monday 1916 . |
| 12 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 13 | Buried treasure : in a happy mix of old and new , the Eagle Warehouse 's 19th-century facade — complete with sandstone eagle — is cocooned inside the modern glass of the Eagle Building The latter provide splendid views along one of Glasgow 's principal office streets and over the rooftops of BP 's offices across the street . |
| 14 | Among the issues which they pursued were proposed NIHT rent increases , resettlement grants , poor soundproofing and finishing in their accommodation and the refusal of the NIHT to provide a communal television aerial for Rossville Flats which would enable the tenants to receive Radio Telefis Eireann ( the Irish television network ) . |
| 15 | At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique . |
| 16 | One of the members of the quintet bears the quaint name of Tolkachenko . |
| 17 | At seven o'clock that night , William Darling went up the long stairs of the lighthouse to light the big oil lantern . |
| 18 | Out to sea the beam of the lighthouse swept a great arc every fifteen seconds ; on one side of the headland were the lights of the town and harbour , on the other it was just possible to make out a line of cliffs receding into the darkness . |
| 19 | The purchase price has been agreed at £5000 , and the form of the conveyance follows a conventional pattern . |
| 20 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 21 | Yet the need to harness the ability of the computer to monitor a dynamic situation far faster than is possible with manual methods was as pressing for SGB , with a Group payroll at the time approaching £13 million , as for the very large organisation able to make substantial investment in computerised personnel records . |
| 22 | As stipulated in the Constitution , President Zhelyu Zhelev on Nov. 12 invited caretaker Prime Minister and UDF leader Filip Dimitrov , as leader of the grouping holding the largest number of seats in the National Assembly , to form a new government within seven days . |
| 23 | Since the family were exiled from France there could be no question of the Prince having a political role within the country , even though there was no lack of latent Bonapartist feeling among all sections of society . |
| 24 | In a second phase of training presentation of the tone preceded a nausea-inducing injection of LiCl . |
| 25 | The bidirectional reflectance of the soil has a considerable effect on that of the canopy ( , ) , see Table . |
| 26 | The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol . |
| 27 | She hurriedly did as she was instructed , stretching her body right over the wooden top of the desk to grip the far edge . |
| 28 | Shalikashvili was currently senior assistant to the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff ( Gen. Colin Powell ) and in 1991 had been in charge of the operation to protect the Kurdish population in northern Iraq . |
| 29 | Wide side decks and a long run of substantial grabrail on each side of the coachroof allow a secure passage to and from the foredeck . |
| 30 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |