Example sentences of "of [noun] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 2 | Nonconformists were slower to attempt some degree of unity than the Church of England , which began the Lambeth Conferences in 1867 . |
| 3 | Even with such adjustments the proportion may vary between the two approaches if local authority expenditure contains a different proportion of taxes than the GNP as a whole . |
| 4 | Electrical engineers will be reminded of the torque versus speed curve of an induction motor which exhibits an unstable and unmeasurable set of values as the curve turns back on itself at the pull-out torque . |
| 5 | He was within three yards of Laidlaw when the Lieutenant shot him . |
| 6 | Cavalry can not break into a solid phalanx of pikes until a way has been cut for them , but once in they can do fearful slaughter . |
| 7 | These pass on tips about jobs or lodgings , or can give a firm base of support once a migrant has crossed the border . |
| 8 | These technical , professional discussions had already shaped the direction of change before the Act was drafted , in and out of war . |
| 9 | How many have tried to blow Harold Macmillan 's winds of change when the context did not merit the phrase ? |
| 10 | It was hesitant about its role , and indeed divided within itself over doctrinal issues like the significance of the Resurrection , and over such indicators of change as the ordination of women . |
| 11 | The time I was supposed to be going through this a lot of schools were getting a bit of stick because a lot of parents did n't like it . |
| 12 | A night of champagne where every man in the room looked like James Dean and Cherry was in his favourite spot : the centre of attention . |
| 13 | But it was enormously popular when it first came out in 1764 , and it started a whole train of similar books which even came to include such works of genius as the Brontë sisters ' Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights . |
| 14 | Yesterday Dr Morris said : ‘ The latest work will be a follow-up to an earlier study that showed how the community 's health was 30pc worse in some parts of Sunderland than the country as a whole , and 30pc worse again in parts of Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | However , this is n't likely to occur within the National Parks and although , as Table 8.2 shows , they have a higher percentage of woodland than the rest of the uplands , voluntary agreements to limit any further afforestation will reduce their relative share . |
| 16 | The youngest BCRS member , 3-year-old Daisy Nottingham 's look of horror as the train entered the first tunnel . |
| 17 | She relived the agony of trying to control the boat , the moment of horror when the engine cut out , the desperate struggle to keep the dinghy from capsizing , and the ultimate horror as a giant wave swept her into the sea . |
| 18 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 19 | But what was left of the line of knights after every fall always came on , implacably brave ; and Hotspur 's heart started and complained grievously whenever the foremost fell , still short of the river bank . |
| 20 | John Popham , a parliamentary agent representing 13 local residents who have petitioned against the bill , believes that ‘ residents of Newport should be given the same degree of protection as the government has decided is necessary for property owners in Cardiff ’ . |
| 21 | Cyclosporin A binds to the same region of CyP as a tetrapeptide substrate ( N- acetyl-Ala-Ala-Pro-Ala-amidomethylcoumarin ) , but in an opposite N- to C-terminal orientation ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 22 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 23 | There is always an element of luck when a club selects a manager . |
| 24 | and as full of suspense as a wasp . |
| 25 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 26 | There were , in fact , large areas of responsibility where the Assembly had to be consulted by the Council of Ministers , but its suggestions and amendments could safely be ignored with impunity by the Council . |
| 27 | So important was this regarded that in the final quarter of the fourteenth century a system of coastal defence on land was developed , essentially a second line to carry the burden of defence once the enemy had managed to effect a landing on English soil . |
| 28 | Although it is dangerous to generalise about matters of fact , it may be asserted that it will require a considerable degree of intoxication before a defendant can plausibly make such claims . |
| 29 | However , those less interested in the in-fighting in the House of Windsor than the environment will have noticed that Sarah Ferguson did one thing RIGHT . |
| 30 | Reference resolution accepts these QLFs one at a time , inserts possible referents , and backtracks to another set of referents if the result is deemed implausible . |