Example sentences of "of [art] [det] [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , I discovered the city to be one of many charms ; time and again , I found myself wandering past delightful rows of old timber-fronted houses , or crossing some little stone footbridge over one of the many streams that flow through the city . |
| 2 | One of the many problems that sociology faces is the sheer number of its rivals — unlike , say , physics , which may be reserved mostly for physicists , anyone can play . |
| 3 | Remember to take advantage too , of the many week-end and holiday packages on offer . |
| 4 | Our 84 years young Vice-President had the honour of being presented to Her Majesty The Queen when , accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh , she officially opened the D.L.F. 's new Centre in Harrow Road , London , W.9 and saw demonstrations by physiotherapists and occupational therapists of some of the many aids and equipment available . |
| 5 | The present Comptroller and Auditor General ( C & AG ) is the fifteenth appointed since 1866 He is the head of the National Audit Office ( NAO ) , which was established on 1 January 1984 to replace and continue the work of the former Exchequer and Audit Department ( E & AD ) . |
| 6 | Landsbergis reiterated his demand for troop withdrawal in an interview for Radio Moscow 's World Service on Feb. 19 , saying that " army units [ in Kaliningrad ] may be viewed as a survival of the former policy and ideology of the Soviet empire , which was always prepared to expand its influence and possessions " . |
| 7 | LBut Labour says the ruling just means the taxpayer 's footing the bill for the incompetence of the Former Trade and Industry and Secretary Lord Young . |
| 8 | Where the people rest with their wood or timber and unload it from carts outside the close of the franchise of the Charterhouse among the towns , and afterwards take up their loads of the same wood or timber , the Foresters attach them and amerce them grievously at their will without right . |
| 9 | For the purpose of the story , the author has invented a peak — the Versücherin , or Temptress — of the same notoriety and ferocity as the Eiger , and which he places vaguely where the Eiger should be . |
| 10 | The Earl of Salisbury , director of government intelligence ( and chief minister of the realm ) , infiltrated and masterminded it as a timely and much-needed device to make permanent the rule of the same monarch and régime . |
| 11 | Two sources offering different accounts of the same issue or event , provide the history teacher with another very useful device . |
| 12 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 13 | A similar sister coach B16 of the same year and vintage was restored some two years ago by the same Birkenhead company . |
| 14 | This is much too bald an account of what lies behind the landscape of this fascinating town : and across the grey waters of the Wash lies another town of the same type and date and manner of origin — Boston . |
| 15 | The work being investigated is always of the same type and difficulty . |
| 16 | In practice , the allocation of money appears to show quite considerable variations between libraries of different types and sizes , and also within libraries of the same type and size . |
| 17 | In the context of employment , where the Act refers to dismissal ‘ or other detriment ’ , it has been held that the phrase in quotation marks refers to an act of the same type as dismissal . |
| 18 | Some of the sites under consideration may be of the same date and status , but they may be occupied for part of the year , or for a few years only . |
| 19 | ‘ A cape of the same colour and material as the coat , and reaching to the tips of the fingers when the arm is extended , having a rolling collar of velvet 3 inches broad , and closing at the throat with a long loop … may be worn by all officers when not on duty with troops under arms . ’ |
| 20 | My Coffin I direct to be made by Mr Daniel Millard Carpenter or his partner , of the same Thickness and sort in every Respect as my said late Wife 's . ’ |
| 21 | The variety of RNA produced , repeatedly , in these experiments was of the same size and structure as the molecules that Spiegelman had produced . |
| 22 | Tyre sizes 600 x 16 , 650 x 16 , 700 x 16 , 750 x 16 and 205 x 16 are all interchangeable if you use four of the same size and construction ( radial or crossply ) . |
| 23 | Families of the same size and income have roughly similar functional requirements ; having established these basic and essentially ‘ objective ’ requirements , however , it is obvious that they can be satisfied in different ways and styles . |
| 24 | And if our understanding of star formation is correct , then this means that most stars of the same size and density as our Sun will have planetary systems . |
| 25 | I removed the foam pad and replaced it with a mat of the same size and thickness out of filter wool . |
| 26 | Following the use of a lavatory by a woman with vaginal trichomoniasis , the medical team dropped small blocks of wood of the same size and shape as faeces into the pan and caught the resultant splashes on culture plates . |
| 27 | stake in the project , a fluid bed boiler of the same size and design was built at a mine in Lorraine on the initiative of the French Government , who funded 60 per cent . |
| 28 | Get a new diaphragm of the same size and pattern and insert it , making sure it is seated correctly . |
| 29 | With the most aggressive species this intolerance may extend to species of other fish families and any fish of the same shape or colour is liable to be attacked . |
| 30 | Beneath this are bowls of the same shape and construction , but increasingly greater diameters . |