Example sentences of "of [noun] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of March the 15 members of the IT department at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby will have completed an ITED programme . |
| 2 | Of course no explicit justifications for choosing such criteria of correctness are stated other than the supposedly inherent qualities flowing from a " native " linguistic and literary tradition . |
| 3 | Most writers of the blueprint books of that time certainly did present the would-be solvers of their puzzles with little more than cut-out figures labelled " Millionaire " , " Unfaithful Wife , " " Devoted Secretary " , although of course the better writers of the time were far from such crudities . |
| 4 | Of course the apparent benefits to the region are offset by the inevitable losses in jobs and the suspicion that in years , perhaps months , the company will not be able to sustain two major broadcasting centres and that Newcastle will become little more than a satellite of Leeds . |
| 5 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 6 | Of course the female members of staff found these suggestions inappropriate office attire . |
| 7 | Of course the daft names of so many of his pieces feed the myth as do his occasional forays into what can seem like a kind of proto-minimalism . |
| 8 | Of course the actual procedures to which the document or records were subjected would be recorded in the audit working papers . |
| 9 | The net result was of course the high levels of unemployment of much of the 1980s . |
| 10 | Of course the cruder methods of pressing grapes in those days would often have resulted in rather murky-looking wines which failed to clear properly . |
| 11 | Out of this time came the first stories of his boldness — answering back to a teacher , taking out girls , and of course the all-dazzling displays at rugby and cricket . |
| 12 | This would be equally true in a long tunnel , and in the giant 's beard was long , and in how long is the interval ? , where of course the referential loci of long are the entities corresponding to tunnel , beard , and interval respectively . |
| 13 | It was frustrating to be cut off from such a view but of course the original builders of the house had not been impressed by such aesthetic considerations . |
| 14 | But as well as the bills and routine costs , there are of course the hidden costs of good health — hidden costs which can soon become expensive indeed . |
| 15 | The letters on the vane are of course the cardinal points of the compass in French , Nord , Sud , est & ouest . |
| 16 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 17 | Before the advent of radar the best measurements of Mercury 's radius were made when Mercury was in transit across the Sun . |
| 18 | The principal reason for this is the high degree of reliance a human places on linguistic information . |
| 19 | Antall declared that " after decades of dictatorship the political reflexes of the Hungarian people have not changed " , since the centrist alliance of the HDF , the Christian Democratic People 's Party and the Independent Smallholders ' Party had together " achieved the same result as the Smallholders in 1945 " ( which had then won 57 per cent of the vote ) . |
| 20 | Apart from a few independents and a handful of dissidents the only candidates among whom the elector can choose will be those that the parties have seen fit to put before him . |
| 21 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 22 | The process of scaffolding the communicative abilities of young children is not straightforward and depends on how the adult interprets the child 's verbal and non-verbal communication . |
| 23 | Limitation : as there were limits to the types and amounts of help the different categories of helpers were expected to provide . |
| 24 | ‘ There shall be transferred to and vested in the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland the whole functions of the Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland with regard to the framing of the General Register of Sasines , the Register of Hornings , the Register of Inhibitions and Adjudications , the Register of Entails and the Register of Deeds , together with the powers and duties transferred to the said Keeper from the Director of Chancery under section seven of the Reorganisation of Offices ( Scotland ) Act , 1928 . ’ |
| 25 | The FAOR methodology was described briefly in Chapter 9 , and for ease of reference the main components of the package are shown again in Fig 14. 1 . |
| 26 | According to the principle of equivalence the physical laws in any frame in free fall are consistent with SR . |
| 27 | Towards the end of May the leading figures in government , headed by Gloucester , published an oath to respect the queen 's safety if she came out of sanctuary . |
| 28 | Towards the end of May the leading figures in government , headed by Gloucester , published an oath to respect the queen 's safety if she came out of sanctuary . |
| 29 | Rosie stamped ahead of Rory the two streets to where they 'd left the car . |
| 30 | You can pass a mix of string an numeric parameters to the same procedure or function and a function can return either a string or numeric value , irrespective of the type of parameters passed to it . |