Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marquis managed to pour the brandy without spilling it , his face chalk-white as the ramifications of Horatia 's return began to dawn on him . |
| 2 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 3 | Even if the accused does not fall within s.2(1) , he may still be not dishonest for the purposes of the Act . |
| 4 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 5 | The train for Dover left at Il.00 am so I bought a copy of Soldier magazine and leafed through the photos of happy-looking squaddies as I drank a cup of British Rail coffee , which tasted hot and disgusting . |
| 6 | In this way it is possible for the divisions of a text using the drama base ( for example ) to consist of speeches and stage directions , while those of a text using the dictionary base will consist of lexical entries . |
| 7 | In a prefatory motto for the book he quotes from Freud to the effect that ‘ perhaps we must make up our minds to the idea that altogether it is not possible for the claims of the sexual instincts to be reconciled with the demands of culture . ’ |
| 8 | The various works on the subject are very revealing about the images of young people that prevailed . |
| 9 | If a flagrant oversight like this could occur it says little for the prospects of men of lowly status being correctly recorded . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend is entirely right about the merits of competition . |
| 11 | It is also quite normal for the rugs of small villages to be marketed under the name of the nearest large rug-producing town , providing of course that there are strong similarities between their rugs ; items produced in villages around the Persian city of Hamadan , for example , may be collectively referred to as Hamadans . |
| 12 | The Home Office may think it necessary on security grounds to make regular changes , perhaps believing that it would be undesirable for the routines of governors to be known to the general public . |
| 13 | It is unnecessary for the purposes of this judgment to set out in any detail the content of these articles : it is sufficient to say that they question the propriety of certain investments made by the council of moneys in its superannuation fund , with Mr. Bookbinder as the prime mover , in three deals with Mr. Oyston or companies controlled by him . |
| 14 | It is unnecessary for the purposes of this appeal , to express a conclusion upon them . |
| 15 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |
| 16 | ‘ They are young and inexperienced and they come mostly from cities and know little about the problems of rural people . |
| 17 | As Scherer concludes , ‘ we know far too little about the methods of goal formation and conflict resolution within large organizations . |
| 18 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
| 19 | Yet , given the reality that a number of children were deprived and neglected and the shortage of sympathetic officials , who could in any case have done little about the causes of such deprivation , it is difficult to known what alternative measures were available . |
| 20 | I FEEL sorry for the parents of the little boy who had his face ripped open by an alsatian . |
| 21 | ‘ I am proud to die for my ideals ; and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why . ’ |
| 22 | They had reason to hate the Turks , who had driven them from their homes ; they were grateful for the grants of land which enabled them to settle down in their new homes , and they owed no allegiance to the Croatian and Hungarian nobles . |
| 23 | Bernice was almost grateful for the hours of enforced idleness . |
| 24 | I am grateful for the comments of my hon. Friend , who is the distinguished Chairman of the Committee . |
| 25 | We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death . |
| 26 | We are grateful for the contributions of the German Government , the Japan Festival and Belfast 1991 . |
| 27 | He must only be alive between the covers of a book , and not anywhere else . |
| 28 | These include snow and ice hazards , where impacts on transport and the need to plan road salting or gritting strategies are obvious ( see Perry et al. 1986 for the beginnings of a GIS approach ) . |
| 29 | Having given Moses a glimpse of that through the fingers of his hand , God commands him to cut two tablets of stone to replace those which were broken . |
| 30 | We should be alert for the side-effects of critical doubt . |