Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a cruel account is this of the Vicar 's one and only love affair ! |
| 2 | When an ant shares a common border with an elephant , it makes a lot of sense for the insect to stay well clear of the animal 's footsteps . |
| 3 | Despite the protection of the suit , she would have to stay clear of the shuttle 's thrusters as it descended through the doorway . |
| 4 | ‘ Slowly , ’ he warned and backed the tiny storm jib , making the sheet fast so that the breeze would hold them clear of the Baglietto 's stern . |
| 5 | When they were clear of the city 's traffic , Colt eased himself back in the seat and lit a small cigar . |
| 6 | About 800 of the city 's 15/16 year-olds and 800 17/18 year-olds ( a 1 in 10 sample ) will complete questionnaires in 1987 . |
| 7 | Moscow was the most unsettled of the empire 's cities . |
| 8 | But this is probably the easier of the Tories ' tasks . |
| 9 | The S.C.I. indexes every article and every significant editorial item from every issue of over 2700 of the world 's most important journals in over 100 disciplines . |
| 10 | The couplet is both resentful of the Friend 's sexual betrayal and appealing : ‘ Lascivious grace , in whom all ill well shows , /Kill me with spites , yet we must not be foes . ’ |
| 11 | Grants and parental contributions would be frozen at 1990 levels and loans would eventually form half of a student 's maintenance award . |
| 12 | In a country like ours where half of the territory er is still in the frontier situation , er there is an enormous difficulty in enforcing some laws . |
| 13 | The ‘ big six ’ control approximately half of the UK 's public houses , as is shown by the following table : |
| 14 | In 1992 , achieved exports of £55.7m , accounting for more than half of the UK 's total malt exports . |
| 15 | The survey found that half of the UK 's knacker businesses have gone bankrupt since they began charging last July . |
| 16 | Six branches , usually including South Shields , Cardiff and Barry , accounted for more than half of the union 's funds and year by year the phenomenon of the " non-paying " branch continued , nine out of thirty-two in the bad year 1906 , two out of twenty-nine in the good year 1899 . |
| 17 | Apart from Architecture , Housing Studies and Nursing Studies students who are trained for particular professions , over half of the faculty 's graduates go immediately into full-time employment . |
| 18 | The federal government owns about half of the California 's entire desert wilderness . |
| 19 | UK operations , which deal with just over half of the company 's clients , saw a steady 6% growth in revenues said to be underpinned by a healthy 12% improvement in exports . |
| 20 | More than half of the Shipman 's Tale consists of dialogue ( 237 lines out of 434 ) , a figure that increases if we count odd lines introducing a change of speaker or place in dialogue as part of the dialogue . |
| 21 | During the second world war , the government took control of the system , worked it to death without investing and , under a fixed ‘ rental ’ agreement of 1941 , pocketed more than half of the railways ' receipts . |
| 22 | More than half of the country 's qualified teachers have left the profession . |
| 23 | By 1966 little more than half of the country 's urban population enjoyed local air pollution control ; of almost 600 counties with a population greater than 50,000 , fewer than 90 had control programmes , and most of these programmes were far from adequate ( Krier and Ursin , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | A joint Mozambique government and World Bank report , released at a donors ' meeting in Paris on Dec. 10 , warned that half of the country 's 16,000,000 people faced starvation , largely as a result of the civil war . |
| 25 | Despite the PT 's successes , the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ( PMDB ) continued to control more than half of the country 's municipal governments . |
| 26 | Meeting the target to recycle half of the country 's domestic waste by 2000 could cost each household an extra £50 a year , according to the report , commissioned by the government from Environmental Resources Limited ( ERL ) . |
| 27 | Around half of the firm 's original 80 partners have left since 1987 . |
| 28 | Only 300,000 cereal farms would be too large to qualify for full compensation — but they farm no less than half of the EC 's cereals fields and produce almost two-thirds of its cereals crop . |
| 29 | Spain , which had about half of the EC 's fishing fleet , was accused of taking an inequitable share of fish in Irish waters , of failing to regulate its fleets properly , and of repeated violations of EC catch quotas . |
| 30 | Talks on the issue with the Slovak government proved inconclusive , however , with the latter estimating that " even with the best will " Austria had only the capacity to deliver a maximum of 400 MW , or about half of the unit 's output . |