Example sentences of "[adj] of the [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone .
2 Each man would wear an individual set of breathing apparatus and as each group got clear of the gas in Bank mine the equipment would be taken back into Knockshinnoch by rescuers and used by another group of three men .
3 Even the soldiers , when they are drunk , keep clear of the area in case they stumble and start the bell tolling . ’
4 I think that we must wait and see what his detailed policies will be , but everything that I have seen and heard suggests that he is certainly very understanding of the situation in Northern Ireland .
5 He was made free of the company in 1649 .
6 You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme .
7 Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November .
8 When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 .
9 And had his voice been able to cut through metal as it cut through the early morning air , then they would all of them have been free of the Cages in moments .
10 She ran , oblivious of the pain in her body , and the warm flow of blood inside her clothes .
11 Although this may be unwelcome , particularly if you are very fond of the place in which you live , the alternative may be that you spend the next few years in a state of anxiety and misery because of money worries .
12 But I am so fond of the people in A Wreath of Roses and have so lately re-read it , that I am perhaps tiresomely asking you to do the same thing again .
13 NUMBER ones from around the world : Bruce Springsteen , who with that manly stubble and grubby string vest has always had something of the macho Mediterranean stud about him , is currently top of the pops in Spain and Italy with Human Touch .
14 Liz Dolan ( who was top of the pops in 1991 with Airtours ) is sticking to Spring Ram .
15 ‘ At Manchester United I have been top of the table in April and still lost it .
16 HP IS TOP OF THE CLASS IN NEW OPEN SYSTEMS REPORT
17 He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune .
18 In addition the metric of the frame in free fall is locally that of special relativity .
19 A normal scientist must be uncritical of the paradigm in which he works .
20 Since O. ostertagi is the most prevalent of the species in cattle it is considered in detail .
21 More than anything else could have been , it was searingly expressive of the contempt in which he held her , because he had ignored her face where her personality and individuality were written , his attention given wholly to a part of her body — and a body was just a body as far as she was concerned , with nothing to do with one 's emotional identity .
22 If choreographers are to justify their reasons for creating a ballet , they should use or create a style of movement appropriate to and expressive of the characters in the story being told and their moods , emotions and actions .
23 The radicalism of the campaign came wholly from the Conservatives , redolent of the shift in the political and intellectual climate of the period generally since 1974 .
24 This project aims to fill in as many as possible of the gaps in our knowledge of dialect grammar .
25 Personnel departments will inform employees as soon as possible of the venue in the Group .
26 Sylvia , currently in Moss Side , is not untypical of the women in special hospitals today .
27 Penny Wright ( to whom I am indebted for this story ) was attending a healing ceremony which involved the temporary burial alive of the patient in this case a child .
28 Scientists talk in terms of ‘ generations ’ of computers , and the most advanced of the machines in operation at the moment are of the fourth generation .
29 At about the same time , i.e. the end of the nineteenth century , Charles Booth ( 1840–1916 ) was conducting one of the first major social surveys , which he published between 1891 and 1903 in seventeen volumes entitled Life and Labour of the People in London .
30 The traditional school 's isolation of the teacher typically allows such useful knowledge to lie unused , or at least under-used , the people concerned being unaware of the circumstances in which their skills could be deployed , their colleagues unmindful of the possibilities or unable because of lack of timetable time or other simple machinery to bring them in .
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