Example sentences of "[noun] of [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in the middle of this continuum , an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises , but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium . |
| 2 | In many cases , a material may exhibit the characteristics of both a liquid and a solid and neither of the limiting laws will adequately describe its behaviour . |
| 3 | At temperatures above 374° C and pressures above 218 atmospheres , water becomes what is known as a supercritical fluid , with some of the characteristics of both a liquid and gas , and is able to dissolve almost anything . |
| 4 | On Nov. 5 Chiluba launched a major reorganization of both the civil service and parastatal organizations . |
| 5 | The document has a dual interest : its own intrinsic historical value ; and the insight it provides into the thinking of perhaps the greatest technician of the Cabinet machine in Cabinet Office history . |
| 6 | For The Rite Of Spring celebrates the mythical and timeless regeneration of both the natural and the human world in a spirit far removed from the tranquil and ordinary daffodils immortalised by Wordsworth . |
| 7 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 8 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 9 | Benefits of RDS as a source of traffic information have penetrated the consciousness of only the relative few making top-of-the-range car-radio purchases . |
| 10 | He was able to make use of parrots not only in the Society 's collection , but in the vast private menageries of Lord Stanley , who was then president of both the Zoological and Linnean Societies , and who would later become Lear 's principal patron ; and in the collections of Sir Henry Halford , ‘ the eel-backed baronet ’ and physician to George IV and William IV ; of Lady Mountcharles ; and of Vigors himself , who was a neighbour of Lear 's at Chester Terrace . |
| 11 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 12 | Annexation and the incorporation of both the indigenous and refugee Palestinians created a fundamental instability in the new kingdom . |
| 13 | From January 1948 the line formed part of the Western Region of British Railways until the closure of practically the whole line in December 1960 . |
| 14 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 15 | Many small birds have escaped with the loss of only a few feathers because of a smartly delivered peck with a sharp beak . |
| 16 | Miraculously , however , the books hold together , with the loss of only a few pages , until the end of the year . |
| 17 | The imminent loss of perhaps a third of the cream of Russian science , he says , demonstrates the importance of taking rapid action , by whatever means available , to help those still willing and able to do science . |
| 18 | The code , which was published last May , also resulted in the loss of about a dozen personal accounts and the same number of small corporate customers which opposed the bank 's position . |
| 19 | The changes are expected to provoke the loss of about a third of France 's 8,300 dock jobs and an end to the power of the CGT union . |
| 20 | In just one week a hundred and ninety four crimes were committed , causing a loss of almost a hundred and one thousand pounds . |
| 21 | FRANK SIDEBOTTOM , the man whose papier-mache head must be responsible for the loss of quite a fair amount of small coniferous growths , now has his own show . |
| 22 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |
| 23 | In very urgent cases the result of either a full land charges search or bankruptcy search can , for a fee of £2 a name be telephoned . |
| 24 | This is probably the result of both the lower volume of distribution and the lower first-pass gastric metabolism of alcohol in women compared with men . |
| 25 | Former senior vice-president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California property market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 26 | Former senior vice president of marketing Dennis Peck is now consulting for the firm , mostly on large-scale Unix issues , as a result of both the merciless California real-estate market and a highly successful wife who sells computers for another company , two reasons that make his moving to Oregon impossible . |
| 27 | The function of a number of body systems is affected as a result of both the generalised tissue oedema and hypotension . |
| 28 | What , however , should already be evident as a result of both the historical and anthropological materials investigated in this chapter is that , just as with material culture in general , in many social studies ( with the conspicuous exception of economics ) a stress on consumption is a necessary corollary to its previous neglect . |
| 29 | Now , partly I think as a result of the numbers being fewer , but partly as a result of simply a greater awareness of need , I think , the schools are more caring places , they do try erm not to treat erm minority groups as just annoying variants on the majority group , they try to erm think through their problems and to help to meet them . |
| 30 | The court might be in a foreign country , there to try a citizen of yet a third nation , but it was her element and she was relieved to be back in it , even though she could take no active part in the trial . |