Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At which she reached for a bottle of whisky called Old Rarity . |
| 2 | But the diffuse culturalism of the woman-centred definition of lesbianism induces woman-centred psychology to study the emotional satisfactions and positive self-image associated with lesbianism , rather than sexuality ( e.g. Cox 1981 , Mannion 1981 ) . |
| 3 | W.N. and L.A. Kellogg adopted the then revolutionary idea of rearing an infant chimpanzee in their own home in the 1920s but the experiment with Gua was abandoned after a year because no signs of vocalisation resembling human speech were observed . |
| 4 | The deliberate juxtaposition of these rituals of celebration has been done to suggest that the 1830s were years of transition in antislavery culture in which occasions of unity indicated growing divergences within the ‘ movement culture ’ . |
| 5 | One of the companies involved in what can only be described as the latest round of unity talks that Unix International seems to be sponsoring ( UX No 423 , 424 ) says that for all the fear , uncertainty and doubt unleashed by Microsoft Corp , the project still lacks the compulsion that galvanized the industry to form the Open Software Foundation five years ago . |
| 6 | There will be times when you may want to tailor your style of play to fight particular opponents . |
| 7 | The different purposes of assessment require different kinds of assessment ; the changing content and methods of assessment also require different methods of reporting achievement . |
| 8 | One key area to be addressed is the potential for integration of assessment — that is , to use a single instrument of assessment to assess several outcomes in the same unit or indeed outcomes across more than one unit . |
| 9 | By contrast to the barn owl , all the other species of owl showed some degree of digestion of the molars of their prey , even when clearly coming from adult birds only . |
| 10 | In the surrounding debris of apartment blocks more militia would be crouched , forming the outer defence ring of the beleaguered stronghold . |
| 11 | So if you find some yeah find some yeah it 's a matter of y'know getting some stuff erm getting some stuff together . |
| 12 | At least two type III repeats of tenascin contain functional sites . |
| 13 | Whitton Wood Designs will build any style of kitchen using any wood you choose . |
| 14 | Similar changes are simultaneously occurring in a large number of advanced societies ( Challis , 1992b ; Kraan et al. , 1991 ) , albeit in slightly different ways for different client groups , Of course this simple conception of change requires further elaboration . |
| 15 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 16 | Accelerated rates of change demand improved organization and procedures to increase the ability to adapt to new conditions and to conserve money by well-designed , economical manufacturing ; keeping this in focus often requires a single vision . |
| 17 | The social and environmental costs of reforestation to counter global warming far outweigh the likely benefits , according to the FoE 's report , Deserts of Trees . |
| 18 | The bottle of champagne took five attempts to break , the roses dropped , out of the two passing aircraft , missed the ceremony by 200 yards and the balloons drifted off downwind , unnoticed . |
| 19 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 20 | The difficulty about using these tests is how to score the responses with any reasonable hope of reliability let alone validity . |
| 21 | One of my friends — Flg Off Murphy — was interned , and in point of tact spent live years in " the bag " . |
| 22 | The GDR 's acceptance as a real country has been the function of the Cold War , a piece of make-believe reflecting tacit agreement by both blocs that the German Question is best put on hold . |
| 23 | We have a high level of expertise to give these children the education they need . |
| 24 | Their area of expertise includes complementary products such as pension plans and insurance policies . |
| 25 | Abbey National 's area of expertise includes complementary products such as pension plans and insurance policies , as well as professional advice on which products to choose . |
| 26 | In his first season at Arsenal he was cast in the role of footballer turned male model . |
| 27 | But as it turns out ( as it happens , as ‘ chance ’ or ‘ luck ’ would have it ) there are things in the web of story to refute those grounds . |
| 28 | O. affinis is similar to O. vicarius Lyman , 1869 , from the West Indies but differs in the shape of the apical papilla which is simple blunt or slightly pointed in O. affinis as opposed to heart shaped in O. vicarius , though the occasional occurrence of heart shaped apical papillae in O. affinis throws doubt on the validity of this character , the degree to which the disk is constricted interradially , which is very pronounced in most specimens of O. affinis but not noticeably so in O. vicarius ; and the number of arm spines , 7–8 in O. affinis but as many as 10–12 O. vicarius . |
| 29 | It is also possible that in this continuum a tumour increases the amount of large cells and develops higher grades of malignancy transforming low grade into high grade as occurs in nodal counterparts . |
| 30 | On this side of the Webi , undulating grasslands rose to distant hills , and strips of woodland bordered numerous streams . |