Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weak banking structure of the USA was in imminent danger of collapse . |
| 2 | When the camouflage of this praying mantis fails and a killer is closing in , the insect adopts the last-ditch defence strategy of flashing its wings open and rearing up with its front legs spread . |
| 3 | A full-time Blink line-up of Dermot , Robbie Sexton ( keyboards ) , Brian McLoughlin ( bass ) and Barry Campbell ( drums ) was put together — and then the fun began . |
| 4 | From the gently misleading acoustic opening chords of ‘ Power Missy ’ to the final screaming guitar frenzy of ‘ Peace ’ nothing is as it should be . |
| 5 | Since 1991 , the CIB has supported the Eastern and Central European banking section of the Overseas Development Administration . |
| 6 | Charles Dickens had something similar on his mind when , in an embittered flogging essay of 1860 , he accused ‘ The Ruffian ’ of making London 's streets as perilous as a ‘ solitary mountain-spur of the Abruzzi ’ . |
| 7 | The pungent AOR rockisms of ‘ Alive And Kicking ’ , the clod-footed thump of ‘ Sanctify Yourself ’ and the messiness of ‘ All The Things She Said ’ , coupled with wilfully obtuse witterings by Jim Kerr , will still wind up anyone who marvelled at the loneliness at the centre of ‘ Someone , Somewhere In Summertime ’ or the wistful catchiness of ‘ Promised You A Miracle ’ , the Euro-disco made flesh on ‘ The American ’ or even the neon womb-glow of the recent ‘ See The Lights ’ . |
| 8 | He was one of a group of 28 Royal Engineers who had taken eight truck loads of blankets and supplies to Vitez to help refugees . |
| 9 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 10 | The Torygraph gave us the usual shite report of the game — it did however comment on the poor state of the pitch and also get Sgt Wilko to display his disgust on it 's current state . |
| 11 | The lower level components of textual divisions are parameterized by means of another mechanism which characterizes the whole TEI scheme : the use of parameter entities which are specified by the particular base in use . |
| 12 | One of the most important factors is the reliability of the individual sources which contribute to the search space , and particularly the performance of the components involved in lower level analysis of the speech waveform . |
| 13 | The first bomb exploded in a tomato packing plant at Kibbutz Netzarim , an Israeli settlement south of Gaza , injuring an Israeli woman doing a year 's national service . |
| 14 | In December there followed the most extensive anarchist rising of the entire Republican period . |
| 15 | The classic West Face of the Petites Jorasses , for example , turned nasty at the top , causing accidents and diverting even more attention towards its controversial neighbour Anouk , Michel Piola 's 108-bolt , fast-food classic . |
| 16 | The Gulf crisis and economic recession prompted a fall in the number of individual working days lost through industrial action from 904,000 days in 1989 to 693,700 in 1990 — the lowest level of industrial action since 1946 according to a Labour Ministry report of late June 1991 . |
| 17 | Alongside the race equality unit , Southwark SSD has worked hard to build up a representative mailing list of funded and unfunded bodies , says Wright . |
| 18 | Each component part of the Ontos DB is separable from the rest , it claims , and provides a range of piping conventions for accessing different parts ( objects ) of the database(s) , whilst the system as a whole can still be viewed as a single object . |
| 19 | 1 A group of words frequently found together and producing collectively a meaning not apparent from the meaning of each component part of the group ( Ridout and Clarke 1970 ) . |
| 20 | The first two say that if each component process of an IF or ALT declares the variable x , and that variable does not clash with the booleans or guards , then the declaration may be moved outside the constructor . |
| 21 | This however is unlikely , and that the idea of decorating a metope with a figured scene goes back to the beginning of the Doric order is shown by the painted terracotta examples of the seventh century ( above , p. 13 ) . |
| 22 | The KSA advises that you should n't pay a deposit amounting to more than 25% of the total contract price of your kitchen . |
| 23 | The total contract cost of the church conversion and the adjacent new building was of the order of £1.25 million and the work extended over twenty-one months . |
| 24 | Though the extensive story telling of the Bible and Gospels was developed especially in Gothic architecture , in the great portals and walls , Romanesque work too tells this story . |
| 25 | From the same publishing house comes a monograph on Antonio Begarelli , the greatest terracotta sculptor of the Italian Renaissance , by Giorgio Bonsanti . |
| 26 | The jump follows a big increase in bad debts reported last week by the private banking operations of Lloyds Bank . |
| 27 | At least half of Citibank 's International Private Banking assets of $26 billion , it is estimated , belong to Latin Americans . |
| 28 | The event tree shows each system diagrammatically , with an upper branch representing success and the lower branch failure of the system to fulfil its function . |
| 29 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
| 30 | There is usually a clearly seen demarcation between upper and lower sausage-shaped groups of glands , which has aptly been named the ‘ sign of the groove ’ . |