Example sentences of "[noun] of [pron] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ HERE is the new Shorter Oxford Dictionary of which the first thing that can be said with confidence is that if you drop it on your foot you will never walk unaided again ’ — Commentator Bernard Levin . |
| 2 | Thus the offensive , in support of which the last series of raids by the SAS had been carried out , was a failure . |
| 3 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 4 | Price Waterhouse surveyed 120 companies across Scotland of which a third were reckoned by the respondents to be appropriate for an MBO . |
| 5 | Yet there are certain advantages with the modern orchestra ; the violin section , for example , which often fails in an ‘ authentic ’ set-up to do justice to the importance of what the first violins , in particular , have to say . |
| 6 | There are 7–8 simple glassy arm spines of which the second dorsalmost is the longest , up to 3 arm segments long . |
| 7 | It was suggested that as principal it had knowledge of whatever the first bank did as its agent . |
| 8 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 9 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 10 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 11 | The question now is whether Mr Clinton is going to be forward-looking ; to give shape to a sense of what the next American Dream , and what America 's post-cold-war role , could be . |
| 12 | The unc algorithm resolves A into the product unc as above , and then multiplies the factors in reverse order to obtain a new matrix B. Since unc and then unc is a similar transform of A. B is , in general , a fully populated matrix of which the last column is that of R1 ( thus A14 reappears in B ) and the last row that of L1 multiplied by x44 . |
| 13 | About 30 police of whom a third were armed surrounded the semi-detached house and evacuated neighbouring homes . |
| 14 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 15 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 16 | On a postcard — no letters please — we would like your idea of what the last thoughts of the erk were — plus of course your name and address . |
| 17 | The simplest transfer of control instruction is , of course , the unconditional jump or unconditional branch , after the execution of which the next instruction is taken from the store address specified in the jump instruction . |
| 18 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 19 | Three of the news stories or feature articles should be of 350 words or more and one should give a pupils ' view of what the next Government 's education policies should be . |
| 20 | Each entry should include ten news stories or features , three of which should be 350 words or more with one giving a pupils ' view of what the next government 's policies should be . |
| 21 | Erm but er I think when you say about being confrontational there 's if you 've got a client in front of you the last thing that you want to do is have erm a confrontation with them |