Example sentences of "of [adj] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What an idiot ! ’ cried Pétain , on learning at Verdun that a battalion commander , having received the order of alert just as the rations arrived , had ordered his men to depart forthwith on empty stomachs ; ‘ He does n't deserve to be a corporal . ’ |
| 2 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 3 | Most of the eagles in the Cages have forgotten , for they can not bear to remember , and because of that even if the opportunity came they would not be able to return to their homesites . |
| 4 | THE BRITISH are said to be fascinated by the weather and talk of little else when the talk is small . |
| 5 | There was an omen of this even while the legislation was passing through Parliament . |
| 6 | To keep the woodlice in complete darkness , put the black card-board on the pot ( black side down if it is black only on one side ) , then put the glass on top of this so that the weight of the glass presses the card firmly against the rim of the pot . |
| 7 | These arrangements will continue in respect of 1992/93 even if the House of Lords finds for the Crown . |
| 8 | Fewer matches will be missed by England players , seven out of 17 rather than the present 12 out of 22 . |
| 9 | point base of ten rather than a power of two ; normally the exponent is still held in binary format . |
| 10 | One of the disconcerting features of New Historicist accounts is that a recognition of critical partially and a mapping out of the historicity of texts through the textuality of history does not produce a critical manner which is careful and self-scrutinising . |
| 11 | Discovery of the truth is a basic requirement of justice which should be sacrificed for speed of dispute-resolution only when the case for expedition is overwhelming . |
| 12 | A total of 98 competitors weighed in from an entry of 126 even though the venue rose five feet above normal . |
| 13 | This is probably true of all human beings irrespective of culture and simply means that some degree of maturation of the ego must occur at around the age of seven even if the culture does not choose that moment for the installation of the superego . |