Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a layer of mango lay above the guava . ) |
| 2 | It is ridiculous that two-thirds of the cost of a bottle of whisky goes to the Treasury and the taxation rate is double that of imported wines . ’ |
| 3 | I ca n't help but think , chairman , in my career I was never given a bottle of whisky to help with the |
| 4 | Dewlike drops of moisture formed on the dry grass , and rose upward through the air as if powered by the jolts in our chest . |
| 5 | The eyes are the blue of a shallow sea , watering slightly at the corners , a trickle of moisture sinking into the parched skin . |
| 6 | On wet ground , play the ball back a bit in your stance to ensure catching the ball first , thus minimising the amount of moisture squeezed between the clubface and the ball at impact . |
| 7 | After he had walked a little distance , he noticed that the concrete slabs underfoot were glistening damply in the torch light from the constant dripping of moisture seeping through the joints in the roof from the earth above . |
| 8 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
| 9 | It was not raining , but droplets of moisture condensed on every cold surface and Wycliffe could taste the salt on his lips . |
| 10 | If a lot of moisture collects inside the bag , wipe it off , looking carefully for adult insects as you do so . |
| 11 | In addition to their apparent central role in the pathogenesis of the arterial thrombus , increasing interest has focussed on platelets and the coronary microcirculation with the finding of platelet aggregates in the coronary microcirculation in some cases of sudden cardiac death ( Haerem , 1972 ; El-Maraghi & Genton , 1980 ) . |
| 12 | This lack of attention is surprising given the widespread use of graphs revealed in the study , sponsored by the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants , of the corporate annual reports of 240 large UK companies that we have recently completed . |
| 13 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 14 | The Elector Counts of Ostland live on the north eastern border of the Empire beyond which lie the wild and dangerous Troll Country and the Northern Wastes . |
| 15 | Although Thompson , the hooker , was sin-binned for 10 minutes for a foul in a tackle on Platt , Wakefield were never troubled and two minutes after he departed Wilson dribbled past a swarm of defenders to score by the posts . |
| 16 | The touchdown came with only one second left when Michael Haynes jumped among a crowd of defenders to catch for the victory . |
| 17 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |
| 18 | It is clear that these organizations have different points of unity depending on the concerns of their members . |
| 19 | The awareness of unity existing in the diversity of objects ( intuition or ‘ para para ’ ) — the middle level . |
| 20 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 21 | The alert might recall that various groups have made unusual , tenuous ‘ crystals ’ out of small numbers of ions suspended in a magnetic field ; the pair of mercury ions in the new experiment constitutes the simplest such crystal . |
| 22 | The distribution of taxes depends on the assumptions about the incidence , discussed below , and on the allocation series . |
| 23 | However , the Bill of Rights 1688 had established the fundamental principle that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament , which necessarily required the return of taxes executed under an unlawful demand as a matter of right . |
| 24 | Next , in the leading case of Air Canada v. British Columbia , 59 D.L.R. ( 4th ) 161 , the question arose whether money in the form of taxes paid under a statute held to be ultra vires was recoverable . |
| 25 | The first is that the retention by the state of taxes unlawfully exacted is particularly obnoxious , because it is one of the most fundamental principles of our law — enshrined in a famous constitutional document , the Bill of Rights 1688 — that taxes should not be levied without the authority of Parliament ; and full effect can only be given to that principle if the return of taxes exacted under an unlawful demand can be enforced as a matter of right . |
| 26 | The day was hot and humid , the field of play rippled with a heat haze as the draw was made to split the six teams into two leagues . |
| 27 | The standard of play dropped in the counties . |
| 28 | Yes , there were 300 or so other overs bowled on the four days of play permitted by the weather , with nine innings passing 50 , and even the extras in England 's innings passing the half-century . |
| 29 | In fact , the process of assessment requires of the practitioner the ability to apply a range of knowledge and theory , to formulate information in the light of knowledge and theory , to summarize , prioritize , analyse , make predictions , and to exercise the professional judgements necessary to balance competing imperatives and to assess risk . |
| 30 | It also includes people who were resident in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the relevant time falls ( see IHTA 1984 , s267 ) . |