Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I awoke at the sounding of five o'clock reveille , shivering in the bitter cold . |
| 2 | Dad , can I cut a piece of that please Dad ? |
| 3 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
| 4 | The Tirpitz book , Menace , also did well , and was illustrated with more than a hundred photographs and copies of relevant Ultra signals decrypted from the Enigma machines and now in the Public Records Office at Kew : to my surprise it has brought in more royalties from the Public Lending Right scheme than any other book I have written , including 10 Rillington Place . |
| 5 | Bit of both really Chairman . |
| 6 | By February of 1825 neither Taylor 's nor Fleming 's Levels had " struck-home " and Barratt , starting now to have doubts about the latter , suspended driving until the elusive vein was cut in Taylor 's , and when doing so , perhaps , shedding some light on the matter . |
| 7 | Russia froze relations with Yugoslavia on July 17 and the Supreme Soviet approved the deployment of 400 more UN troops from Russia . |
| 8 | The effects of large fortnightly/monthly water changes can prove deadly to angel and butterfly fish by upsetting their stable environment . |
| 9 | Failure of this citizenly vigilance can all too easily lead to an erosion of our entitlements . |
| 10 | It has come after years of various cobbled-together options , with one of the louder voices being that of a City lobbying group , the City Group for Smaller Companies ( CISCO ) which argued that the proposed closure of the USM before a proper alternative was thought out showed a lack of concern , particularly for the problems faced by companies coming to the market for the first time . |
| 11 | The purpose of this school work has been viewed as an inculcation of such citizenly virtues as national loyalty , ready willingness to honour one 's duties and deference to the Establishment . |
| 12 | In 1968 , ‘ Martin 's Bones Number 2 ’ , ( 1961 ) a canvas of two side-by-side columns of 10 rectangular shapes was included in the exhibition , The Art of the Real , at the Museum of Modern Art in New York . |
| 13 | The former represents those accruing from the families of those already members , while the latter represents those recruited who are from families of non-members . |
| 14 | I think I 'll have the rest of that please Paula , good |
| 15 | The result was that in the long Russo-Swedish conflict of 1700–21 both combatants endured sacrifices surpassing those of any Western country in the War of the Spanish Succession , while Russia 's wars with the Ottoman Empire were fought almost in the spirit of a crusade . |
| 16 | Romania was not only dotted with scarcely visited residences , each filled with furniture in gilded styles that the reigns of twenty more Louis XIV's could not have conjured up . |
| 17 | GARRYOWEN have pulled off a major coup with the appointment of former All Blacks captain Andy Leslie as coach for the next two seasons . |
| 18 | APPOINTMENT OF LABOUR ONLY SUB-CONTRACTORS — TERMS AND CONDITIONS |
| 19 | MENINGITIS killed a woman of 20 just hours after she was discharged from hospital . |
| 20 | US opposition to the terms of the agreement , which imposed restrictions on the free movement of UN personnel in Iraq and obliged the use of Iraqi rather UN facilities , was reportedly neutralized after the UK and France indicated that they would not lend their support . |
| 21 | As it happened , the occupants of two upstairs flats in 4 Cromwell Road were Roman Catholics . |
| 22 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 23 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 24 | A total of 2958 never smokers in 1988 were surveyed in 1990 , 2924 ( 99% ) of whom gave a valid response for smoking status . |
| 25 | During the upheaval of 1905–7 overall membership leaped upwards , the Social Democrats claiming as many as 150,000 members . |
| 26 | And er get and then strip this er at the side , cos a girl used to be at the front to strip all this here lace of these here pins . |
| 27 | fully ordered preferences ( for any pair of possible outcomes , the agent prefers one to the other or ranks them equal ; and the sum of these pair-wise rankings is a consistent and complete ordering ) ; |
| 28 | A lot o lot of these here dockers used to erm have 'em made out of calico . |
| 29 | His meticulously accurate map and report of these mainly Pre-Cambrian rocks were ‘ adopted ’ by the Geological Survey and were published in 1919 . |
| 30 | By the end of 1982 only £766,000 had been allocated . |