Example sentences of "[noun] of [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genetic counselling is basically giving advice to parents , including those who have already given birth to a mentally handicapped child , of risks of having a first or second child with mental handicap . |
| 2 | Both are more refreshing than a toner — and more effective methods of removing the last traces of make-up and oil . |
| 3 | Two methods of resolving the first problem are : |
| 4 | The vertical distance between the marginal social cost MSC and the marginal social benefit as given by DD shows the marginal social loss of producing the last output unit . |
| 5 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 6 | Less costly , but not entirely satisfactory , is the practice of making every fourth tankful leaded petrol , which protects the valve seats but rather defeats the object . |
| 7 | When he returned to Oxford in 1773 it was with the intention of claiming the first suitable benefice in the gift of New College to become vacant . |
| 8 | Let us restrict ourselves to square matrices ; then premultiplication of any matrix A by unc has the effect of interchanging the ith and jth rows of A ; postmultiplication of A by unc interchanges the ith and jth columns . |
| 9 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 10 | It was for this reason that he felt compelled to offer the Liberals the alternative vote , an electoral system which would have the effect of entrenching the third party as part of the political system . |
| 11 | Davies left Lansdowne Road looking pensive , but alert to Australia 's dislike of Garryowens , their growing weariness after two years of international stress , and the disruption of losing a fourth player through injury . |
| 12 | But the small case load of the House of Lords and the expense of bringing a second appeal have produced suggestions that there is no need for the second appeal if the Court of Appeal were to be free to reconsider its own previous decisions . |
| 13 | Maginn spent the rest of his life as a dedicated missioner in Belfast , where in 1888 he had the pleasure of becoming the first superintendent of the Mission Hall for the Adult Deaf and Dumb which was opened that year by Miss Wilhelmina Frederick . |
| 14 | Having the added bonus of a symbiosis with Richard Martin , but with the advantage of handling the first few episodes himself , Barry 's memory is of an intensely creative period in the weeks before his first studio session on ‘ The Daleks ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not really into the whole bit of owning a second home , but I 'd dearly love to have a cottage in the country . ’ |
| 16 | Pete 's starting to sing kind of mumbling the first two lines and all of a sudden she goes on christmas day . |
| 17 | Disease free mucosa from cancer patients was not studied in the present investigation because of the technical difficulty of taking a second biopsy after the tumour had been removed . |
| 18 | The only trouble was that in the course of compiling the second inventory the missing artworks were found in a cupboard in one of the museum 's corridors . |
| 19 | In particular , simplification of the design of such ladder filters through the technique of loading the last section with the characteristic impedance was discussed . |
| 20 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 21 | In the absence of Ken Davies ( who had succeeded John Darbyshire as Managing Director in 1985 , and is now living in England ) he expressed the hope that at some future date we might have the opportunity of planting a third tree ! |
| 22 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 23 | Well Nick , you have n't got the benefit of seeing the second division table in front of you . |
| 24 | The honour of establishing the first postwar economic arrangement belongs to Benelux , a grouping of Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg . |
| 25 | The honour of making the first speech may go to the best speaker or the best friend , providing your choice keeps as many people as possible happy ! |
| 26 | SUE HOLWELL , the England sweeper , had the honour of scoring the first goal in the Women 's Typhoo National League when it got underway on Saturday . |
| 27 | For the players of Torpedo Moscow will not only be fighting for the honour of becoming the first side to beat Manchester United in a European tie at Old Trafford . |
| 28 | The political parties of the narrow and fragmented centre of the political spectrum , from which all governments had to be drawn , were agreed only on the fundamental issue of preserving the Fourth Republic : they had , as it were , reserved their right to disagree on everything else . |
| 29 | DURHAM WASPS ' dream of becoming the first British League team to win a European game abroad ended in a 10-1 defeat here last night after Robert Herckerrath had opened the scoring for Gunco Pandas of Rotterdam in the second minute . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , Sally Gunnell yesterday outlined her dream of becoming the first British woman to win a unique ‘ grand slam ’ of major championship gold medals . |