Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 2 | The eyes are the blue of a shallow sea , watering slightly at the corners , a trickle of moisture sinking into the parched skin . |
| 3 | It was not raining , but droplets of moisture condensed on every cold surface and Wycliffe could taste the salt on his lips . |
| 4 | In addition to their apparent central role in the pathogenesis of the arterial thrombus , increasing interest has focussed on platelets and the coronary microcirculation with the finding of platelet aggregates in the coronary microcirculation in some cases of sudden cardiac death ( Haerem , 1972 ; El-Maraghi & Genton , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 6 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 7 | However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right . |
| 8 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 9 | Produces a quick rush of euphoria followed by a rapid depression of mood . |
| 10 | But the effectiveness of rewards varies with the desired behaviour . |
| 11 | THE FIRST big wave of Russians came after the 1967 war , when Zionist feelings were awakened by Israel 's six day victory and Soviet support for the Arabs . |
| 12 | An alternative explanation for the more favourable results at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is that the type of stricture encountered by the two techniques is different , percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography being preferred when imaging suggests a high stricture and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography when it is low . |
| 13 | Their discovery helped overthrow the medieval concept of the Solar System and a few decades later , by a method that I shall not describe , observations of Io led to the first determination of the speed of light , which until then was thought by many philosophers to be infinite . |
| 14 | The numerical growth of states participating in the Non-Aligned Movement in the 1970s reinforced the Soviet perception that the global ‘ correlation of forces ‘ was shifting away from the West and that Western-sponsored multilateral military alliances and alignments in the Third World were fragmenting or weakening . |
| 15 | The increasing number of states , and the rising legitimacy of states resulting from the increasing democratization of governments ( as it appeared in 1968 ) were important reasons for this development , but the major reason was the new impossibility of actually using force in international relations . |
| 16 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 17 | Some members of the minority , as a result of this stratification of languages and reallocation of values accorded to the white minority languages , have begun to perceive a drift from Commonwealthism and Internationalism to Europeanism . |
| 18 | But at least some of the meaning of blackbird belongs to the whole complex , and is not attributable to either black — or bird separately ; so , when black is replaced , this additional meaning is lost , along with ‘ black ’ . |
| 19 | It will try to identify what the key moments of commitment/disengagement are , when , and to whom , school offers self-fulfilment and when it operates denial ; whether patterns of differentiation persist within the national framework of ‘ entitlement ’ and equality of opportunity . |
| 20 | Many ingenious hypotheses have been advanced to account for this supposed rise in NAIRU , the most promising of which is the notion of hysteresis discussed in the next section . |
| 21 | The treatment was as diverse as the geographical distribution , from the simple four-part settings of the complete Psalter in Polish by Mikolaj Gomolka ( Cracow , 1580 ) , employing tunes drawn from plainsong , Protestant song , and the popular music of Eastern Europe generally , to the astonishing collection of settings of Marot-Bèze published by the Dutch master Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( 15621621 ) in four books ( Amsterdam , 1604 , 1613 , 1614 , and Haarlem , 1621 ) . |
| 22 | The degree of support given to Newton 's theory by Galle 's observation of Neptune is no different from the degree of support given by a modern observation of Neptune . |
| 23 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 24 | It is great to see so many people turn up and we hope this level of support continues during the cold winter evenings ahead . |
| 25 | Thus the question of legitimacy is crucial , and particularly the levels of support enjoyed by the civil political process as a whole compared with those enjoyed by the military . |
| 26 | Who then is going to organise the packages of support required by the new structure of Community Care ? |
| 27 | The report , endorsed by chief nursing officer Yvonne Moores , says : ‘ It is recommended that priority should be given to the achievement of change based on the systematic and structured methodology provided . ’ |
| 28 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 29 | Openness in discussion , the acceptance of the searching question and the admission of uncertainty are all signs of the process of change proceeding at an appropriate rate for the individuals concerned " ( Briault and West 1990:20 ) . |
| 30 | Even at the tiny rate of change discovered by the two men , an accurate clock started then would now be several hours out , compared to time judged by the positions of the sun or stars . |