Example sentences of "of [noun] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beeney was solid as a rock , dealt with the back pass superbly , and only kicked ONE out of play the whole match . |
| 2 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |
| 3 | At this level of support the electoral system begins to work very handsomely in a party 's favour , and Labour came first in over three-quarters of the wards . |
| 4 | They could find out what kind of support the Irish comrades would accept . |
| 5 | In such a climate of change the 29th Edition Rules for Automatic Sprinkler Systems can only indicate that required sprinkler protection for broad categories of commodity . |
| 6 | We have already mentioned Equity , and for a number of reasons the entire question of how to enter the actors ' union needs discussion at this point . |
| 7 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 8 | The only gleam of hope the Prime Minister could offer was that the Cabinet had on the previous day agreed to ask the Bank of England whether an increase of cuts from 56 million to 76 million , including a ten per cent cut in unemployment benefits , would be enough to ensure an American loan . |
| 9 | Consequently their influence on the Left of the Labour Party was greatly diminished and for several years after the departure of MacDonald the Labour Left was mainly represented by small groups based on defectors from the ILP and , to a lesser extent , from the Communist Party . |
| 10 | ‘ What about that man who kept buying copies of Fight the Good Fight by Angela Truebridge ? ’ |
| 11 | From the small town of Urubamba the fifty kilometres , journey from Pisac to Ollantaytambo was in a colectivo so packed it was difficult to see anything . |
| 12 | But with a shake of his head and a gentle smile he decided against doing so , for he liked the feeling of freedom the open window gave him . |
| 13 | Using a conversion factor of 1,250 feet per inch of mercury the approximate height above ground , at least in relation to the take-off point , could be calculated . |
| 14 | er Abraham Lincoln actually supported a constitutional amendment which would guarantee the right of people to own slaves so the idea of Lincoln the great emancipator and friend of black people , it needs to be corrected slightly . |
| 15 | Despite this absence of co-ordination the British government was eager to move against the French and make sure they could not endanger the American colonies . |
| 16 | Couple 's joy : Alison Kitchen , 28 , and her husband David , 31 , who live in Hartlepool , are celebrating the birth of triplets the first test tube babies to be born at the town 's general hospital . |
| 17 | By the end of March the 15 members of the IT department at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby will have completed an ITED programme . |
| 18 | Hassan , all our naughty boys are called Hassan , sorry , I 'll re-phrase that , all Hassan 's in our school are naughty it 's the equivalent of Jason the Pakistani equivalent of Jason |
| 19 | However , in the case of mergers the proposed changes are largely procedural , and no significant reorientation of present policy is envisaged . |
| 20 | In the case of Aplysia the former possibility is the real one . |
| 21 | Pope John 's message to heads of state — broadcast on Vatican Radio on 25 October — made the front page of Pravda the next day under the banner headline : ‘ We beg all rulers not to be deaf to the cry of humanity ’ . |
| 22 | The idea of the charter , launched on Monday at the Rockwell nature conservation area off Martindale Road , Darlington , was to inform people of the type of improvements the local authority would work towards . |
| 23 | As the East German trains pulled into the border station of Hof the first refugees , many of them in tears , were greeted with cheers , applause and a local youth group singing the Beatles song ‘ Let It Be ’ . |
| 24 | During the first six months of pupillage the fledgling barrister is not allowed to accept briefs . |
| 25 | The events of May 1968 inflated still further the Sartrean myth of Nizan the youthful iconoclast . |
| 26 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 27 | Of course the above differentiation between book selection and censorship is a simplification . |
| 28 | So of course the poor Welshman with not having a sense of humour booked him , and poor Ben came back with a twenty-pound fine . |
| 29 | This program performs to the high standards expected of Macintosh software but of course the final reward depends on investment in time , patience and hardware . |
| 30 | The fact that individual identity is surrounded by doubt and confusion in this way prompts of course the anxious question in such as myself , ‘ Who was Marcel Proust ? ’ and ‘ Has one identified him in terms appropriate to a centenary celebration ? ’ |