Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think you also were hitting the rawest of nerves within the church , and maybe within Archbishop McQuaid himself , by suggesting there may be homosexuality among priests and even implying that people could get pleasure from sex ? |
| 2 | He died in 1167 of plague after the defeat of the army near Tusculum . |
| 3 | Poulantzas goes on to say that it is ignorance of these writers , and the provincialism of the French intellectual arena , ‘ which allows these most hackneyed of ideas to be presented as something new . ’ |
| 4 | I say this of course in the late twentieth century . |
| 5 | Whilst paying due attention to individual differences among incoming students as a potential source of subsequent competence , the investigator is especially concerned with the effects upon this of variation in course provision and course participation . |
| 6 | Hope this of use to you . |
| 7 | A rapid review such as this of theories of knowledge and the curriculum can not hope to do justice to the various concepts and models , and risks inducing a kind of conceptual vertigo . |
| 8 | They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground . |
| 9 | Erm what , what I said to you earlier was that er at the very beginning where you could help me was if , if you found this of value to you , this service that I 've just provided , erm perhaps you could erm th there might be er some friends of yours that er you might find that this might be of beneficial to . |
| 10 | Eighteen months later , Thomas is making a good recovery , though he can not be diagnosed as being clear of leukaemia for another three years . |
| 11 | Blackburn are six points clear of Liverpool in the table and have beaten them to a place in the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals . |
| 12 | The Lancashire side recorded their 11th successive home win , and were seven points clear of Ipswich at the top , when they beat Newcastle United in February . |
| 13 | Formed in ice-cut cirques or shallow , steep-sided valleys , the Signy Island lakes are moraine-dammed and often rimmed by a rubble-covered shelf about 1 m below the surface ; the shelves are swept clear of sediment by wind-induced turbulence , and fall away to a narrow , sediment-filled trough . |
| 14 | He fought his way clear of encirclement by Von Kleist 's 1st Panzer Army at Berdichev ; and gained a high reputation as one of the staunchest defenders of Kiev when the Soviet attempt to hold that city ended in disaster in September with the loss of 600,000 men and 2,500 tanks . |
| 15 | Thereafter Hooley steered clear of companies for some time , concentrating on land deals . |
| 16 | DENNIS GREENE , Wycombe 's £15,000 signing from Chelmsford in February , scored all his team 's goals in the 4–0 win at Altrincham to put them three points clear of Colchester in the race for the GM Vauxhall Conference title , writes Peter Ernest . |
| 17 | This consists of a heated brass rod with a polystyrene float , and is perfectly safe to use , keeping an area of water clear of ice in the severest weather . |
| 18 | Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here . |
| 19 | Dearden turned Tony Philliskirk 's spot kick around the post as Birmingham moved two points clear of Stoke with a game in hand . |
| 20 | If I were you , sir , I 'd keep clear of Washington for some little time , by which I mean the rest of your life . ’ |
| 21 | Coming out of the 4th lap the Russian and Hungarian dropped him and that is how it remained to the final straight , Bohacs eventually taking the win but Andy with an unprecedented second bronze , within a minute of the winner and nearly two minutes clear of Bartunek in 4th place . |
| 22 | However , local communities might achieve some of the simpler things like filling in small pools and keeping the edges of streams ditches and irrigation canals clear of vegetation as part of the ‘ self-help ’ aspect of any health education programme . |
| 23 | They were clear of Customs by 14.30 with twenty miles to go to Ramsgate . |
| 24 | Jaq would be well advised to steer well clear of Earth till the end of his days and serve the Ordo Hydra loyally . |
| 25 | Life is all compromise , so a first consideration when siting the launch pad is to ensure that the DZ ( drop zone ) is clear of hazards like forests , cliffs and rivers likely to cause much grief to the fauna . |
| 26 | Her strong legs were capable of taking her clear of pursers on the level or going uphill . |
| 27 | In 1962 , the Federal courts ordered the University of Mississippi , one of the most segregated of states in the deep south , to enrol its first black students , James Meredith . |
| 28 | His move away from the family home and into English affairs resulted from his father 's position as the household knight and dependent of Peter of Savoy , Earl of Richmond [ q.v. ] , uncle of Henry III 's queen , Eleanor [ q.v. ] , and a powerful influence at Henry 's court . |
| 29 | We can write the reciprocal of A as unc and then the product of ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) yields ( twice ) unc These may be solved if either P or Q is non-singular ; we assume P-1 exists , and we write R for P-1Q . |
| 30 | We append here some useful theorems and definitions : Theorem 1 — The reciprocal of the transpose of a matrix A is equal to the transpose of the reciprocal of A. For |