Example sentences of "of the [noun] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The quiescence of the Jurassic culminated in the widespread Tithonian limestones of southern Europe . |
| 2 | " Ultimately we have the base of the Jurassic defined by a single bedding plane on the coast of Somerset , where we took the Jurassic specialists of the world to see it during our celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of William Smith in 1969 . |
| 3 | Rightly , few of the hypotheses examined in this book will stand the test of time but it will have achieved its aim if it provides a foothold for fellow students who also appreciate the need to abandon what may glibly be characterised as the ‘ Beowulf and brooches ’ approach . |
| 4 | But perhaps a more likely interpretation is to be found in the aspect of the hobby known as ‘ copping ’ , the keeping of lists of trains seen . |
| 5 | Amongst those that had received assistance in completing forestry plans , Cameroon and Colombia have had difficulty obtaining funds , partly because of the prominence given to logging . |
| 6 | ‘ Fan ’ and ‘ step ’ experiments led him to doubt this , and , combined with close observation of the dance led to the decoding of the language . |
| 7 | Pilot interviews were conducted with participants in the industry from the UK , USA and Japan to ascertain the nature of the limits placed on data-gathering by commercial confidentiality and military secrecy . |
| 8 | Traditional teaching is relative rather than fixed because of our greater understanding of the limits imposed by culture . |
| 9 | For the purposes of the limits described in sub-paragraphs , , and above , options which lapse in accordance with the Scheme shall cease to count . |
| 10 | It was developed mainly by Trumbull , with Kubrick 's encouragement , to reproduce on a far bigger scale some of the experiments done by John Whitney Sr to make abstract , flat animation — approximately the film equivalent of abstract expressionism in painting ( Pollock , Rothko ) . |
| 11 | In order to understand how predictions are derived from the model , one must first consider the phenomenon of backward visual masking , since the logic of the experiments depends upon using masking . |
| 12 | The principle of the experiments considered in this section has been mentioned in Section 22.4 . |
| 13 | In many of the experiments described in the earlier parts of this chapter , the context was changed substantially from pre-training to the test . |
| 14 | The combined Hong Kong Executive and Legislative Councils ( Omleco ) issued a bland statement asserting that the future political system outlined in the Basic Law " falls short of the pace recommended by Omleco " ( i.e. 50 per cent directly elected Legco seats by 1997 , rising to 100 per cent in 2003 ) . |
| 15 | This weekend it 's the 60th anniversary of the Chancellor coming to power . |
| 16 | The windows of the cottage streamed with sun-blood . |
| 17 | Although the planning of the cottage rested on the patriarchal assumption that it would house a male art lover , with perhaps a wife and certainly a ( female ) domestic to service it , Unwin displayed some unease about the status of such service , and thought that : " It is possible , though not easy , to introduce one helper into home life on equal terms , but very difficult indeed to do this with two " ( 1901 p66 ) . |
| 18 | As the fire took hold , the walls of the cottage danced with saffron-coloured shadows . |
| 19 | A tee shot hit slightly fat into a steep-faced bunker at the front of the green led to several bunker shots hit even fatter , a score approaching double figures and an instant bout of depression . |
| 20 | not a lot of goals … most of the chances came to quick |
| 21 | Throughout the game , neither side managed to take control in a typical basement battle , although the majority of the chances fell to the home side . |
| 22 | The diaries of a twenty-two-year-old French Second Lieutenant , Roger Campana , who had already had one spell at Verdun , provide one glimpse of how the savage formlessness of the battle seemed to those caught up in it . |
| 23 | Most of the papers referred to in the present chapter are collected in Pappas and Swain ( 1978 ) , which also contains an analytical introduction to the area . |
| 24 | This is just a sample of the papers trawled from one journal during one month . |
| 25 | It comprises some of the papers prepared for this year 's conference . |
| 26 | In accordance with the formula the surplus of 1,118.07 is divided by 3,813 , so that 0.29 becomes the value of each of the papers transferred from Craig to other candidates . |
| 27 | This book is a record of the papers presented at the Fibre 90 conference held in Norwich in April 1990 . |
| 28 | It is a pity that this book contains only half ( 11 ) of the papers presented at the symposium , the rest having appeared in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , apparently for logistic rather than logical reasons . |
| 29 | The quality of the papers given in the technical stream was high . |
| 30 | The former interpretation highlights the role played by texts in the socio-cultural processes whereby conventions and ideologies are transmitted or subverted , while the latter points to the possibility of describing and exposing such processes by means of linguistic analysis , which is the central purpose of the papers collected in the volume . |