Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made his way back to the van , the thought did occur to him that it might be prudent to stay clear of the likes of Terry Littlejohn . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The body lay diagonally across the path , as he had said , not quite flat on its face and breast , rather on the right shoulder , but with the right arm flung clear behind , and the left groping wide beside him , clear of the folds of the coarse hooded cloak he wore . |
| 4 | The survey follows last week 's publication by CLEAR of the results of a national survey of lead in the dust of school playgrounds and the pavement outside . |
| 5 | The men march with their warders and when they are clear of the confines of the fences for those few steps they are hemmed in by the soldiers and the dogs . |
| 6 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 7 | Raleigh , sung by a bass , is shown as dignified , even pompous , slightly resentful of the aspirations of younger courtiers such as Mountjoy and the Earl of Essex . |
| 8 | Senior officers were generally resentful of the attempts of politicians to interfere in military affairs and in the organization of the Empire , which was almost a military fiefdom . |
| 9 | And to Return , free of the shackles of human physical embodiment . |
| 10 | Intelligence was to be scrubbed free of the impurities of independent action . |
| 11 | You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 14 | The moment of the break is not transcendent but it is a breaking free of the determinations of ideology — a moment in which the presuppositions that determine ideology are transformed by a critical response to them . |
| 15 | Although free of the horrors of Bosnia it 's difficult to imagine what nightmares the refugees endure in the security of their makeshift British accommodation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
| 18 | Stanford University Hospital is the Hippocratic show-piece of America , whose government-sponsored research surges forward free of the confines of budget . |
| 19 | He was oblivious of the sounds of well-bred impatience arising from behind . |
| 20 | He seemed oblivious of the stares of the whole town . |
| 21 | The Doctor continued to play marbles , oblivious of the protestations of the woman . |
| 22 | On each side were stalls heaped with fruit , vegetables , fish and other staples , behind which strapping black-shawled women bawled produce and price , oblivious of the packs of snarling dogs and ragged children lunging in and out between them for whatever scraps they could scavenge . |
| 23 | There are those who remain unconvinced of the benefits of a good environmental audit , arguing that the process is nothing more than a shallow , expensive public relations exercise . |
| 24 | I have always been , however , and I believe with some justification , unconvinced of the virtues of taking a punt totally outside my own business . |
| 25 | However , perhaps the most interesting of the inhibitors from my point of view was introduced by Reinhard Jork , working with Hans-Jurgen Matthies of Magdeburg , in what was then still East Germany . |
| 26 | It meant a three-horse jump-off of the riders on four faults and , when it came to this , Whitaker had no problems going clear with his own Everest Lifestyle to leave Mark Armstrong , Friday night 's Grand Prix winner , as runner-up with Rockall . |
| 27 | MILLIONAIRE composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is top of the pops with tourist chiefs . |
| 28 | Kingsley Amis seems to be top of the pops with English and American customers at the moment , but D.H . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Liz Dolan ( who was top of the pops in 1991 with Airtours ) is sticking to Spring Ram . |