Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grabbed the nearest bottle of whisky and poured a measure into a glass , watching her over the rim . |
| 2 | A lively tour of continental culture , seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future . |
| 3 | A lively tour of continental culture , seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future . |
| 4 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 5 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 6 | Depending on how long your first session lasts , you can move into the main areas of assessment and gain a fuller picture of the child and family history . |
| 7 | The court can give directions relating to medical or psychiatric examination or any other kind of assessment when making an interim order or at any time while an order is in force ( s38(6) ) . |
| 8 | But far from alerting people to the danger of environmental degradation , the theory was used to justify the kind of progress that increased the level of exploitation . |
| 9 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 10 | There an attempt was to be made to reach agreement on the date of Easter and to end the discord between Egypt and Rome on the one hand and Syria and Asia Minor on the other . |
| 11 | The bolt-rig generally incorporates a hair-rig , or at least some kind of rig that entails the exposure of most of the hook point and gape . |
| 12 | Having explored some of the causes of change and identified the areas which will continue to be debated for the next decade , it is perhaps appropriate to try to identify the developments which have occurred in the past 30 years . |
| 13 | Dearlove 's analysis of local government reorganization in the early 1970s , The Reorganization of Local Government ( Cambridge , Cambridge University Press ; 1979 ) is particularly important because it encourages a political analysis of change and develops an impressive critique of more traditional or orthodox approaches . |
| 14 | While Charles listened to all this good advice , he drank up his glass of champagne and felt a bit better . |
| 15 | Later that night she came into my room in her kimono , bringing me a glass of champagne and carrying a book . |
| 16 | But Philip still did not trust the loyalty of Champagne and allowed the office of sénéchal ( steward of the royal household ) , which was customarily awarded to a member of the count of Champagne 's family , to lapse . |
| 17 | He popped the first bottle of champagne and poured a glass . |
| 18 | After two hours of driving Carson and Alison stopped at a motorway services area , a cut-rate chunk of space-age that straddled the carriageway . |
| 19 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 20 | It certainly demonstrates the power of conjugation and provides a definite guide for further puzzles of this type . |
| 21 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
| 22 | On the other hand to disassociate the Church from the Kingdom breaks the nerve-cord of hope and destroys the community of commitment to Christ as Saviour and Lord . |
| 23 | West Ham 's 4–0 victory over Norwich on Saturday had offered a glimmer of hope and scuppered the planned mass second-half walk-out by supporters in their continuing protest at the general running of the club . |
| 24 | It removed an essential feature of ball-winning and turned the tournament into a lottery . |
| 25 | STEVE PYKE is a regular contributor to the pages of Esquire and took the photographs of Irish comedian Sean Hughes to be seen on pages 59 and 61 . |
| 26 | They had both slowly turned their heads , which were now very close as they stared to where a grassy bank rose to a narrow stretch of woodland that bordered the house gardens . |
| 27 | They scatter during the day to feed , but reassemble every night in a vast , noisy crowd , blanketing whole sections of woodland and making the trees almost invisible under their cloak of bodies . |
| 28 | The first navigation of the Straits of Magellan was a far more difficult problem of seamanship than crossing the Atlantic … |
| 29 | The boys do their bit as well , throwing out diseased white-outs of noise and drenching the most innocent of melodies in liquefied squalor . |
| 30 | In a split-second I would build on this particle of noise and construct an idea of the kind of world that could produce such a phenomenon . |