Example sentences of "of [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the siege was to drag on into the summer of 1098 before the fortress finally capitulated and Rodrigo was able to enter in triumph and order Mass to be sung in one of the main squares . |
| 2 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
| 3 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 4 | The other was not a delegate from his circuit of East London since he usually came last in the election ( except last year when he was ninth out of eight until a lady delegate became pregnant ) . |
| 5 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
| 6 | And the implications of that as the government readied itself for the privatisation of British Airways were too horrific to contemplate . |
| 7 | I thought to myself , ‘ I fancy a bit of that if the chance ever comes up ’ . |
| 8 | I 'm scared of that because the government is selling too many drugs now . |
| 9 | so I 've decided I 'm going to do erm something called Sunshine Chicken , which is just chicken e , chicken casserole , a bit different , she does n't drink alcohol so I ca n't do anything in wine , erm so I 'm doing that , I 'm doing four portions of chicken of that cos the daughter eats chicken , erm |
| 10 | What the first bit of that cos the thing in your mouth . |
| 11 | There is an interesting contrast between the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church in that the Church of Ireland tends to create new parishes out of old as the need arises while the Roman Catholic Church builds new churches where they are needed but keeps still to the already existing parish structure . |
| 12 | The improvement achieved in all major classes during 1992 continued into the first quarter of 1993 as the portfolio benefited increasingly from action on rates and operating costs . |
| 13 | Wallace 's Geographical Distribution of Animals of 1876 provided the model for the next generation of naturalists studying biogeography . |
| 14 | Indeed it is easier to persuade the clerks in the education office of this than the teaching staff in schools . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
| 16 | you know just because of this cos the French on the right left of centre you know . |
| 17 | The workforce of 8,000 before the revolution has been cut to 5,800 through early retirement and natural wastage ; even so , hundreds are on short-time , and sackings are inevitable . |
| 18 | According to Reuters news agency , the draft apparently provided for the election of fewer than a quarter of the 460 Sejm deputies by a first-past-the-post majority vote ; most of the seats would be distributed to parties proportional to the votes won by their national lists of candidates . |
| 19 | of the union 's total membership , approximately half are under the age of 30. since the advent of rock in the 1950s and 1960s , the union has been the only independent organization to give service , protection and advice to rock musicians . |
| 20 | You will be listening to many of these as the election approaches as they are a wonderful invention of the broadcasting industry : a reporter stands alone with just a small tape recorder to protect him and leaps out in front of unsuspecting members of the public asking them an inane question . |
| 21 | Napoli is also a very popular variety , having coarser lumps of flat than the Milano and being made with a mixture of pork and beef . |
| 22 | Tomorrow she 'll be the proudest guest of all when the Queen officially opens the cancer unit that saved her life . |
| 23 | THE riots that rocked Oxford , Salford , Bristol and Blackburn could be the first of many if the Government continues with its uncaring policies , president Rodney Bickerstaffe told the conference . |
| 24 | It was still quite early , and banks of mist lay between the mountain peaks , touched by a haze of pink as the sun caught them . |
| 25 | And then he would take that complaint , if the branch committee approved it , you see , or nine times out of ten if the branch secretary thought it was a valid case , he would send it in a letter to the sectional council . |
| 26 | Legislation to create a factory inspectorate ( 1885 ) made little impact , and the Insurance Law of 1912 provided no insurance against invalidity , occupational diseases , old age or unemployment . |
| 27 | The relationship between the number of shades of a colour ( or shades of grey if the image is monochrome ) and the number of bit-planes in the memory bank can be illustrated by a simple example . |
| 28 | Umbrellarama … a forest of umbrella 's brightens up the Hong Kong stadium 's cloak of grey as the rain sets in on finals day . |
| 29 | showed that the number of full-time male employees of local authorities increased by only 13 per cent during the critical period of 1964–74 while the number of part-time women in local authority employment rose by 86 per cent during the same period . |
| 30 | What better place to get one of those than a racecourse , Doughray ? |