Example sentences of "of [noun] [adj] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 2 | From the beginning of Chapter 1 onwards the majority of this book is taken up with assertions described as theorems ( or lemmas or corollaries ) followed by explanations purporting to be " proofs " . |
| 3 | The team heads remained in telephone contact , but hopes of agreement had faded by the end of January 1990 when the North called off all dialogue until the annual Team Spirit military exercises were concluded . |
| 4 | But the rise in aggregate demand was not anticipated at the end of period 0 when the price was set . |
| 5 | The one exception occurred during the night of Feb. 25-26 when a Scud landed on a US Army reserve barracks in Khobar City , near Dhahran , killing 28 US military personnel and wounding some 100 others . |
| 6 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 7 | ‘ The gift of dhamma ’ , says one of the pithy sayings in the Dhamma-pada ( verses about dhamma ) , ‘ exceeds all gifts ; its sweetness exceeds all sweetness ’ ; reminding the Christian of Psalm 19 where the Torah , the Law of the Lord , is described as ‘ sweeter than honey ’ . |
| 8 | A coup attempt was launched in the early hours of Oct. 13 when a group of soldiers unsuccessfully attacked an arsenal close to N'Djamena airport . |
| 9 | This new approach was heralded by the decision in Photo Production Ltd. v. Securicor Transport Ltd. ( 1980 ) in which the House of Lords swept away the doctrine that a fundamental breach of contract could prevent an exemption clause from providing a defence . |
| 10 | It concluded that most of the mistakes were simply due to lack of care all down the line and not because of untried designs . |
| 11 | This is a specific application of ss34 and 35 of SGA 1979 where the buyer is given the right to examine the goods for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are in conformity with the contract determined at the contractual delivery point . |
| 12 | In this age of electricity and modern heating systems , there is no need at all to employ the sorts of numbers necessary even a generation ago . |
| 13 | It first comes back in the first line of verse three when the tourists are being described as ‘ clucking contentedly ’ . |
| 14 | This reversal in fortunes was demonstrated in the local elections of April 1991 when the SDPJ lost 98 seats [ see pp. 38147-48 ] . |
| 15 | Although superficial and oversimplified , this piece touches upon important background to the reforms of Nicholas II e.g. the absence of a classless educational system , the failure of Alexander II 's modernisation of the agricultural base and liberal programme . |
| 16 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 17 | In the case of unregistered title , a search at HM Land Charges Registry against both the husband and the wife should be made , whilst a Form 94A Search is appropriate in the case of registered land ( except in the case of Precedent 41 when a Form 94C Search is appropriate . |
| 18 | These shifts are shown in the upper graph of Fig. 11 where the price level falls from OP to OP 1 . |
| 19 | I 'll not let you go to visit the Company with dribbles of yolk all down the front of your suit . ’ |