Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually the yacht 's crew was arrested near Bristol and we unloaded the yacht in their absence , taking off twenty four cases of whisky during a hilarious evening operation involving our respective motor boats to ferry the goods back to Poole Quay . |
| 2 | I remember doing the mate 's cabin and being mildly surprised to find two cartons of cigarettes and two bottles of whisky in an obvious place under the bottom drawer of his bunk . |
| 3 | Black let out a sigh then produced a bottle of whisky from the bottom drawer of his desk . |
| 4 | Foreign dependants of the Court continued to be appointed to important Forest wardenships — such as Amaury de St Amand , Steward of the Household 1233–40 , who was also warden of the Forest of Dean during the greater part of that time , and Peter Chaceporc , the able Poitevin Keeper of the Wardrobe 1241–54 , who was appointed to the same wardenship in May 1248 . |
| 5 | As explained in Chapter 2 , from September 1981 a permanent Dean replaced an elected Head of Department in the role of Dean of the Modular Course . |
| 6 | if you think that was muddy … you ai n't seen nothing yet … because on Friday we 're off to the Forest of Dean with the Mad Dogs of Gloucestershire |
| 7 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 8 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 9 | A major centre of Diktynna-worship in the classical period was the Diktynnaion , a great temple on a peninsula to the west of Kydonia . |
| 10 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 11 | The animals are packed with sufficient food and a source of moisture for the complete journey allowing for possible delays . |
| 12 | His hair was untidy , as though it had been blown by the wind , and there were tiny flecks of moisture on the rough Harris tweed material of his jacket . |
| 13 | As he came closer , Dougal saw that there was a drop of moisture on the pink tip of his nose . |
| 14 | After breakfast we left the inn and got on the track , which , with care , need not be lost sight of in good weather , except in haze or severe rain , when there is danger at one or two places , where a ceaseless flow of moisture over a rich soil keeps the grass so green and the ground so soft , no path is traceable now and again . |
| 15 | And several yards away , glistening with droplets of moisture in a solitary shaft of sunlight , was another flower . |
| 16 | There was a vague smell of drains in the still air , of a cesspool somewhere . |
| 17 | On a wet January afternoon in 1986 , Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux walked around the North Down seaside town of Bangor with the local MP and Speaker of the Assembly , James Kilfedder . |
| 18 | The first are conditions within Russia , such as large-scale exploitation in cities , suburbs , mining districts , etc. , the disparity between urban industrialisation and the medieval condition of the countryside , and the lack of unity of the ruling class . |
| 19 | This created an unprecedented degree of unity across the sectarian divide . |
| 20 | THE other 11 heads of state and government of the European Community last night closed ranks in an impressive display of unity against the sole opposition of Mrs Thatcher , to hold a special conference next year to amend the Treaty of Rome and open the way to economic and monetary union . |
| 21 | INSIDE ISRAEL Voice of unity in a divided region Israel Radio has Arab fans , writes Anton La Guardia |
| 22 | With hopes of unity in the Western Cape there is a real prospect of international rugby once again this season . |
| 23 | Various effects can be attributed to other instances of recurrent imagery besides that of merely providing a satisfactory feeling of unity in the narrative performance . |
| 24 | The formula of an ionic compound shows the simplest ratio of ions in the ionic lattice . |
| 25 | May the force be with you : West Indies ' bowling heroes Curtly Ambrose ( left ) , who had match figures of 8–81 , and Courtney Walsh , whose spell of 11–7–8–4 on the last morning was decisive . |
| 26 | Retiro Station offered Paul Theroux a comfortable sense of home-coming after a long rail journey through the continent . |
| 27 | WALES captain Andrew Puddle led by example in his side 's six-wicket Minor Counties win over Dorset at Cherborne School — a victory that did n't look possible at the start of play on the second day . |
| 28 | New Zealand were within 33 runs of their first home Test victory in three years at close of play on the fourth day against Australia in Auckland . |
| 29 | The second distinction between the results here and those of Kreps and Wilson is the behaviour of play in the infinite time horizon case . |
| 30 | But Wednesday took the lead against the run of play in the 27th minute . |