Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the EEC de Gaulle 's efforts led to the first summit meetings of the Six since the Community began , in Paris in February and in Bonn in July . |
| 2 | The village reached its peak in the middle of the 19th century-when the population reached 846 and the occupations listed in the census of the time show it to have been totally self-sufficient . |
| 3 | One profession which sees more of the bereaved than the rest of us are undertakers . |
| 4 | Because of inflation , real food prices in the great majority of Latin American countries were higher at the end of the 1970s than the beginning . |
| 5 | The direct debit is the more flexible to use of the two because the amount can be adjusted for VAT or other changes . |
| 6 | When some of us are small we hear a great deal of criticism , more of the negative than the positive . |
| 7 | Although the flight of the U2 spy plane and the debacle of the summit the following year were to put everybody back on guard once more , there were some moments at the end of the Fifties when the fog of ideology cleared enough for realism to creep in . |
| 8 | In the main gatehouse tower on the first stack , Moray was asking of the guard-captain whether the Countess was at home when the door from the first of the bridge-corridors was flung open and a young woman came in at the run , hair blown , laughing-eyed , skirts kilted up the better to run , fine bosom tumultuous — as unusual a Countess of Dunbar and March as was the castle of which she was chatelaine . |
| 9 | Studies of this kind were influenced first by studies and methods of denudation chronology , of which they naturally formed the later stages , and secondly by developments in the study of the Pleistocene where the work of Zeuner ( 1945 , 1958 ) and the work of geologists ( e.g. Wright , 1937 ; Flint , 1947 ; Charlesworth , 1957 ) had been particularly influential . |
| 10 | No doubt we 'll be hearing more of the same as the week goes on . |
| 11 | I slept the sleep of the just till the chapel bells roused me late this afternoon . |
| 12 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 13 | Behind a one-storey inn the Duke and his tribe of brothers and uncles lived in a cluster of rough stone houses , one built onto the end of the next as the family grew . |
| 14 | Indeed , among these villains of the wheel , the woman cyclist was possibly even more of a portent than the cyclist juror . |
| 15 | As a simple illustration of these remarks we note that the Babylonians posed many problems [ 71 , p. 34 ] of the form : " Find the side of a square if the area less the side is 870 . " |
| 16 | Small companies wishing to dispense with the burden of audit would have to have turnover of no more than the VAT registration threshold , under new proposals from the Government . |