Example sentences of "[noun] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is their good fortune to have the luxury of comment without the responsibility of action that enables them to appear more in tune with public feeling than the ideologists of either side of the political spectrum .
2 The manners of some people ! ’ commented Sybil as they made their way to their cars .
3 Most journalists agree that the telephone manners of some PR departments leave a good deal to be desired .
4 A group not given βblockers included the remaining 2688 patients , none of whom at any time received a β blocker of any sort , including atenolol .
5 The detection and correction of errors is an extremely difficult task in such circumstances , beyond the purview of this thesis .
6 Ceylon Tamils , many of whose ancestors had lived in Sri Lanka for perhaps one thousand years , lived mostly in the Northern and Eastern Provinces , outside the purview of this book .
7 The latter is the purview of another axis in which elected Field Chairs are the most significant individuals .
8 The result of using the mean of each triple instead of the median is shown in columns 4 and 5 of figure 9.7 .
9 Substantial arrivals and passage starts in July , and numbers are high throughout the period July to October , all but two of the counts illustrated being of over 1,000 birds , and the mean of all counts in this period being 2,280 .
10 The mean of this distribution is 270 97 .
11 The thing was hunched , but even so , Cardiff could see that it was at least nine feet tall and somehow impossibly larger than the burnt corpse he had first seen behind the wheel of that car .
12 Anyone under that age caught at the wheel of any vehicle over 1.3 litres without a very good excuse should then face a life driving ban .
13 Gladstone 's pamphlet was published in a country where anti-popery was the religion of many people .
14 The concept of the Created God completely rules out the exclusion from the Alternative Religion of any part whatsoever of humankind , whether it be by reason of race , colour , sex , or for any other reason at all which may create an identifiable group or individual .
15 The religion of this age was a house with many mansions .
16 The Alternative Religion of this book offers a possible way to establish that new understanding .
17 It reported that West Germany was seeking to end restrictions on the export of digital switching equipment , civilian satellites and mobile radio networks to eastern Europe on grounds that restrictions on the export of these items had not applied to China since 1985 .
18 Product mix improved with the export of more manufactures and the import of fewer luxury consumer goods .
19 The point generally made in corroboration of this theory is that his poetry is marked by images of sterility and mechanical lust , and that the excised passages of The Waste Land which have now been published contain evidence of pervasive and sometimes bitter misogyny .
20 As graphic corroboration of this account , heavy arrowheads from this destruction have been found in the excavations , as well as evidence of gutting of the workshops by ferocious fire .
21 The bad debt problem had its roots in a complicity of fatalistic acceptance and in viewing the debtors ' ledger as a single balance sheet entity which needed to be financed , rather than a composite of unsecured risks of many colours .
22 The risks of such abnormalities as Down 's syndrome and spina bifida increase rapidly with maternal age from 1 in 2,700 births to mothers aged 25–9 , to 1 in 170 to mothers aged over 45 .
23 LLOYD 'S of London is a unique means by which people anywhere may buy insurance against risks of all kinds , but which has now fallen foul of risks its members should themselves have anticipated .
24 Microsoft 's foray into the message business has risks of another sort .
25 Chapters 1 and 2 have defined the meaning of high-bay warehouses and the types in current use , and while the whole purpose of this booklet is to concentrate on the fire risks of these storage areas , it must be appreciated that these buildings do not operate in isolation and that , according to their specific function , there will be ancillary accommodation to support the process either directly attached or in close proximity .
26 The risks of this condition after elective minor surgery under local anaesthesia have probably not been appreciated .
27 It has been estimated that every year about 300 000 patients in the United Kingdom experience some form of harm as a result of being admitted to hospital , and if claims for medical negligence are to be minimised it is vitally important that doctors ensure that the patient has carefully considered the potential risks of any procedure as well as its likely benefits .
28 He was equally at home in the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art , keen in discerning what was good in the arts of many ages and styles .
29 Extensive records enable us to visit what André Malraux called a Musée imaginaire , in which the arts of many cultures and civilisations can be compared .
30 Alleymen , roaring boys , the dregs of some commissioner 's levy !
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