Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is clear that these organizations have different points of unity depending on the concerns of their members . |
| 14 | The awareness of unity existing in the diversity of objects ( intuition or ‘ para para ’ ) — the middle level . |
| 15 | Similar evidence of unity emerged from the numerous ( about 600 ) Latin American bishops . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The standard of play dropped in the counties . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 22 | Andrew Burt explains that another common reason is that the instruments of assessment specified in the module descriptor are not being used or have been varied . |
| 23 | These considerations led to the decisions about the modes of assessment used in the project which are described in Chapter 4 ( pp.41–102 ) together with the results of the testing . |
| 24 | The chapter begins with a brief description of the modes of assessment used in the testing programme . |
| 25 | This type of assessment consists of a series of questions which the student answers by selecting the correct response(s) from those presented in the accompanying grid . |
| 26 | It was here that the Princess was presented with a bonnet of straw-plait made by the ladies of Swanage who stayed up all night to finish it before the royal party left next day from the Quay to join the Royal Yacht in the Bay . |
| 27 | Produces a quick rush of euphoria followed by a rapid depression of mood . |
| 28 | An alternative explanation for the more favourable results at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is that the type of stricture encountered by the two techniques is different , percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography being preferred when imaging suggests a high stricture and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography when it is low . |
| 29 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 30 | The 1850 statement of progress speaks of a curriculum designed to ‘ prepare pupils for any position in life which they may be called upon to occupy [ and which ] can be afforded at the moderate fee of two guineas a quarter ’ . |