Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
2 | King Kong plunging to his death from a great height and the real death of a bird in the sky , events dramatic enough for the whirring imagination of a seven year old to cope with . |
3 | Waiting for the inescapable shout of discovery . |
4 | On May 12 and 13 around 1,000,000 Italians voted in elections for 28 municipal authorities and for the provincial government of Caserta , near Naples . |
5 | ‘ Johnny rang me and he said my photograph was awfully good and could he use it for the front cover of Backward Glances , ’ Mr Winner tells me . |
6 | The two women jumped out and sprinted for the front door of the cottage , Donna struggling with the key . |
7 | Video-recording can make use of tape , film or discs for the actual storage of the recorded material . |
8 | In NVOCC practice , the vessel is operated by a shipping company ; but vessel space is either ‘ sold ’ or leased to a freight forwarder or other intermediary who acts as a contractual ‘ common carrier ’ for the actual shipper of the goods . |
9 | My thanks to Tim and Steve Wallace , Ron Mardle , our Chairman Richard Newcombe , Paul Lucas , my wife and our grandchildren who acted as sweepers up , errand boys and girl , etc. for all their work in achieving this opening in a short space of time , for the actual work of putting everything in its place I would like to thank the afore-mentioned and my daughter Bridget , also for manning the museum now that it is open . |
10 | In my view , the requirement at issue as it is worded does not in itself rule this out : it is the vessel which has to be operated from within the United Kingdom and it is its use , that is to say the operations of the vessel , which must be directed and controlled from the United Kingdom ; this does not prevent the onshore unit responsible for the actual management of the vessel ( whether it be in the form of a subsidiary , a branch , an agency or an administrative unit ) from being subject to the general control of the natural or legal person who set it up . |
11 | We present results for the actual activity of Ca 2 + and pH in human gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease and in patients without gall stones ( controls ) . |
12 | Check the TV schedules on Thursday for the actual date of transmission . |
13 | Therefore , it is said , one is looking for the actual cost of providing that benefit for the employee . |
14 | The Puffin Dive Centre at Glenshellach , Oban , is responsible for the actual building of the trail . |
15 | So what guidance can I give for the actual writing of the crime short story ? |
16 | If this is to be your approach see pages 87–92 for the actual process of post-production editing . |
17 | For the actual conquest of the elusive Mort Homme , none other than the elder brother of the Commander-in-Chief had been selected ; General of the Cavalry , Eugene von Falkenhayn , commander of the XXII Reserve Corps , and childhood tutor to the Crown Prince . |
18 | It is hoped that , in considering the detailed discussions of particular areas of policy contained in the next section of this book , readers will bear in mind the importance of the implementation process for the actual impact of social policies upon the public . |
19 | Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres . |
20 | Yes decisions , no , no , no for the actual post of |
21 | In Scotland , the assessors , in discussions with the Inland Revenue valuation office in Scotland , have been preparing for the actual task of valuation , which will get under way shortly . |
22 | Particularly opposed by the dissident RPR factions were proposals for the dilution of the traditional role of the party leader by establishing a confederation with other pro-Gaullist groups outside the RPR ( including dissidents ) , for the formation of a joint shadow cabinet with centrist and right-wing parties including the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) , and the proposal by another Renovator , Michel Noir , a potential presidential candidate , for the actual merger of the RPR with other elements of the opposition into a single party . |
23 | Drugs provided the wherewithal for the actual suspension of reality — a route so desperately sought , for instance , by those young men wearing American uniforms in that far-off land of Vietnam . |
24 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now announce the results of his consideration of the case for the posthumous pardon of Derek Bentley . |
25 | The lens , which is really only part of a compound lens system , is responsible for the variable part of the focusing . |
26 | It was unable to account for the details of the orbit of the planet Mercury and was unable to account for the variable mass of fast-moving electrons in discharge tubes . |
27 | The situation here is a familiar one in anthropology : the recognition of degrees of commonality of attitude and belief which provides for the variable definition of what constitutes cultural boundaries . |
28 | He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric , but these were too difficult for the middle-class man of Victorian times to be bothered with . |
29 | In the western Amazonian town of Xapuri , Acre province , a cattle rancher , Darly Alves da Silva , 56 , and his son Darci Alves Pereire , 23 , were sentenced to 19 years ' imprisonment on Dec. 15 for the premeditated murder of Francisco " Chico " Mendes Filho , the internationally acclaimed environmentalist and leader of the seringueiros rubber-tappers ' union , who was murdered on Dec. 22 , 1988 [ see p. 36459 ] . |
30 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |