Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily Crispins of Curtain Road in London , my main veneer supplier , still had four leaves from the same bundle that I had purchased the original set from . |
| 2 | Setting the record straight on story of diplomat 's pipe-playing activities |
| 3 | The chief superintendent had a corner office with a view down onto the place where tenders took on loads of aviation fuel from huge land-based tanks . |
| 4 | It is not religion , nor its truth-claims , that is the trouble , but rather attitudes of selfishness and possessiveness — of thinking of religion or of truth as an entity which we have and somebody else does not have . |
| 5 | Eventually proposals of marriage are made and accepted , but during the ceremony — performed by Despina in disguise as the notary — military sounds are heard and the girls realize with horror that their original sweethearts are ‘ returning ’ . |
| 6 | However , the first two arrangements have failed to materialise and the company is now effectively part of Agfa who introduced the product under its own Agfa Press label at the end of November . |
| 7 | Hay & Maddock 93 , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 8 | Hay & Maddock , in their study of human geography theses , found that 26% of their sampled items were produced as the outcome of postgraduate research , but that eventually 50% of theses lead to publication of their results , including publication in book form . |
| 9 | When the apostles wrote letters to their friends and colleagues they were always trying to pass on words of encouragement and the people who received these letters regarded them as precious sources of information , that is why many of the letters of Paul or John or Peter have been carefully guarded and handed down to ourselves . |
| 10 | The road then takes on connotations of purpose but without ever becoming fixed ; journeys by land alternate with journeys by water . |
| 11 | There 's a pain in my lung when I breathe , and I keep on thinking of pneumonia . |
| 12 | auctioneer and eventually Mayor of Cloisterham , a pompous idiot who gives himself ecclesiastical airs . |
| 13 | Presumably Department of Trade and Industry is it , contains erm , Minister of State under our local , all the six Lincolnshire M P's . |
| 14 | Occupations , ethnic and religious groups , and most importantly styles of life are accorded differing degrees of prestige or esteem by members of society . |
| 15 | As for the physical appearance of the people who left behind their stone tools and food refuse , Singer and Wymer can say little because , compared with animal bones , there are few human remains in the deposits and they are mostly fragments of skulls and jawbones and teeth . |
| 16 | Only in warmer , damper regions have they a chance to acquire the organic debris — mostly fragments of algae , fungi , lichens and mosses — that allows them to develop further into humic soils ( Figure 3.6B-D ) . |
| 17 | At this level there appears to be little cross-association of elements , e.g. all of those inclusions listed under " form " , in section 2.3 ( all section numbers refer to the under discussion , unless otherwise indicated ) . |
| 18 | Headaches are stupefying , benumbing and bring on confusion of mind . |
| 19 | In winter differs from all sea terns by more sharply defined white shoulder patch , variable but distinctive black spot on side of breast and black bill , as well as by less deeply forked tail . |
| 20 | In summer readily distinguished from Black Tern by conspicuous white forewing , rump and tail , shorter stouter reddish-brown bill , but in winter hard to separate except by lack of dark spot on side of breast , paler rump or brighter red legs . |
| 21 | They joined the club 's men 's team who travel to Bedford next week to take on March of Cambridge in their semi-final . |
| 22 | After retirement he became a respected commentator , chairman of selectors and eventually president of Yorkshire ( 1981-4 ) until , saddened by the internal strife , he resigned from an office in which he took great pride . |
| 23 | Although judges sometimes loosely talk of material which is " inherently obscene " or " obscene per se " , it is clear that this concept is irreconcilable with the legislative definition of obscenity . |
| 24 | Jolleys reported 41% ( 343 ) of women of all ages having inappropriate leakage of urine , but in 232 ( 70% ) of these it amounted to only dampening of underwear . |
| 25 | Perhaps generations of detective story writers , from Wilkie Collins down , are responsible for the romantic image of criminal investigation , so that even for a modern hard-bitten public the initials C.I.D . |
| 26 | Successive NFER analysis demonstrated that the most effective selection process could select only 90% of children adequately — 10% would be misplaced . |
| 27 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 28 | In 1988 , only 23% of women aged 75 and over were married . |
| 29 | A similar finding has been reported using simultaneous gamma scintigraphy , oesophageal pH monitoring , and manometry in which only 23% of reflux events were detected by both methods . |
| 30 | It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world . |