Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Little beads of moisture dotted the upper lip .
2 The Labour Unity Campaign Committee statement issued for " Unity Sunday " on 18 July 1937 called on " all supporters of unity to put the utmost energy into the work of rousing the Labour Party membership to the need for immediate struggle for the demands listed in the programme and to lead the revival campaign by their example of practical work " .
3 A promising early phase of play brought a sloppy opening goal in the 13th minute , when Hamilton lodged a long kick into the heart of the Dundee United half .
4 For Piaget , the activity of play represents a major advance in the ability of the child to control its own environment and engage in a variety of strategies .
5 They found that even small amounts of capsaicin increased the perceived strength of the solutions .
6 The wave of change buckled the hated wall and rolled all the way across the continent to the Kremlin 's front door .
7 The patterns of change constitute an important source of information in many fields of urban history , and this project will explore the experience of Glasgow — the ‘ second city ’ of the Empire .
8 The patterns of change constitute an important source of information in many fields of urban history , and this project will explore the experience of Glasgow — the ‘ second city ’ of the Empire .
9 In Fig. 7.1 2/d ) the rate of change of freewheeling current is large and negative when the winding is turned off , but the decay is reversed by the motional voltage and the rate of change reaches a positive maximum .
10 Reporting on the decade of change following the 1971 Census , the CES found : first , in those areas under consideration , there has been a population decline of 20 per cent , whereas the population at large has grown .
11 Geoffrey Martel had perceived the propaganda potential of public war as early as the mid eleventh century ; later it enabled Henry the Liberal of Champagne to claim the military service of all lords within his county , a reapplication of the Carolingian ban .
12 The gift of genius Find a brilliant inventor to set loose in the laboratory and your problems are solved ; the new products will start to roll off the line immediately .
13 A long straight nose forms a T with the straight fringe close down on the brows ; a rectangular block of hair frames a triangular face which tapers to a pointed chin .
14 Often , you may find larvae of other kinds of insect sharing the same gall .
15 The data describing the prevalence of smoking illustrates a good example of a cohort effect as older women , those aged 60 and over , have the highest proportions classed as never smoking .
16 In 1982 the Forestry Commission 's Head of Site Studies and Head of Pathology paid a short trip to West Germany to see forest decline for themselves .
17 Their areas of expertise encompassed a wide range : Sandra Salmaso and Cinzia Mascherin from Italy devised a piece called No Man 's Land , described by Mascherin as ‘ an empty space , without border , beyond quiet ’ , based on work done with objects .
18 As more and more land was planted with cash crops , the lack of pasture became a serious problem in many districts .
19 At home , the sombre and all-too-present reality of capitalism sinking deeper and deeper into crisis ; on the horizon , the gleaming and distant image of communism constructing a new world , a new man , a new life .
20 These famous short stories by the master of horror explore the dark world of the imagination , where the dead live and speak , where fear lies in every shadow of the mind …
21 But it clearly is much more difficult and heroic for any group of people who are on the front line of discrimination to adopt a nuanced reading of racism 's multiple forms than for those who are or want to be distanced from its processes and effects .
22 Here was the infinite region where powers of Chaos achieved a twisted consciousness and a purpose anathema to all that was real and true .
23 Out of chaos emerged a self-created god , Atum , who was all or nothing , who was the original sun god of Heliopolis and later deemed to be the creative aspect of Re .
24 But slowly and surely the followers of Chaos gained the upper hand .
25 To take a cuisinary analogy , threads of modifier bind the irregular network regions together something like eggs bind the flour in a cake mix .
26 Another distant roll of thunder added a bass note to the orchestrated shrillness of the tropical night , and Devraux lifted his head for a second to listen .
27 Her life had been spent running from possessive love , and now here she was , feeling it burn and twist inside her , pushing aside her conscious love of freedom to reveal the passionate woman beneath , dark and possessive , capable of fathomless emotion .
28 The use of 6-MP for the treatment of leukaemia had an unexpected consequence .
29 This reliance on the compulsive power of oratory started a rhetorical tradition which in the long run weakened liberalism ; rhetoric is unsuitable to the politics of interest and easily becomes the property of extremists .
30 The once proud members of the Auguste Didier School of Cuisine looked a doleful group as they followed Auguste .
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