Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dark-haired girl , feeling a bit sick after several drinks of whisky and dry ginger , looked away from the plate and only smiled . |
| 2 | Over three months 933 gallons of brandy , 1,414 gallons of rum , 654 gallons of whisky and 2,048 gallons of gin were drank between just 12,000 people . |
| 3 | drop of whisky or any thing ? |
| 4 | BASIC INSTINCT is already famous , a ) for the precedent-setting and record-breaking three million bucks writer Joe Eszterhas got for the screenplay , and b ) for the concerted efforts of the American lesbian and gay community to harass the production because of its alleged depiction of lesbianism and bisexual women as homicidal maniacs , and standing outside theatres giving away the surprise ending . |
| 5 | Side by side with the suspicion that Masailand somehow emasculated its administrators , there grew up in East Africa a conviction that the proud Masai could be successfully handled only by the finest type of Englishman , whose qualities of honesty and good judgement they instinctively recognized and respected . |
| 6 | And of a truth vile Epicurism and Sensuality will make the soul of man so degenerate and blinde , that he will not only be content to slide into brutish immorality , but please himself of this very opinion that he is a real Brute already , an Ape , Satyre , Baboon ; and that the best of men are no better , saving that civilising of them and industrious education has made them appear in a more refined shape , and long inculcate precepts have been mistaken for connate Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge , otherwise there be no indespensible grounds of Religion and Virtue , but what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome . |
| 7 | Are our ethical values ( the Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge ) connate , that is " known to us instinctively by virtue of our divine origins " , or are they no more than " long inculcate precepts " which depend simply on " what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome " ? |
| 8 | Computer-aided design/computer-aided management ( CAD/CAM ) ; Applications of finite element techniques ; Design and development of heat transfer systems as applied to tools for diecasting and injection moulding ; Service performance of explosive welds ; processability of polymer and polymer/additive blends ; Alloying of polymers , including interpenetrating networks ; Modified burning characteristics of polymers ; Advanced engineering composites ; Effect of moisture and low-energy impact on carbon-fibre reinforced first generation and toughened epoxy resins ; Processing , structure and property interaction of fibre reinforced thermoplastics ; Composite type rubbers ; Robot kinematics and dynamics ; Frictionless hydraulic actuators ; Metal forming ; Machine tool performance ; Computer analysis of component roundness ; Dynamic stability in cutting ; Finite element modelling of EDM parameters ; Automatic control of ram movement and strip feeds of hydraulic press ; Blood flow analysis and bone necrosis ; Ultrasonic evaluation of adhesive-bonded metal structures . |
| 9 | What it will do is to identify those kinds of misspelling that most pupils are likely to make : appropriate teaching at this stage helps to avoid remedial teaching later . |
| 10 | Assuming a primary sex ratio ( males/females ) of unity and that mortality is random and dependent only on mobility pattern , operational sex ratio is where b is the ratio : time per adult male seeking sexual encounter/time per female . |
| 11 | At one point in the novel the ‘ implied author ’ intervenes to argue that in critical discourse the critic-as-reader becomes a principle of unity and semantic determination : |
| 12 | This culture — frequently the expression of past struggles with management — can form an effective basis of unity and continuing resistance to formal control . |
| 13 | The son of a Baptist minister , he was familiar with regular district meetings for small chapel groups to provide a sense of unity and broader identity with the larger movement of the Baptist Union , through regular contact and fellowship . |
| 14 | Now , after 16 hours of play and endless training sessions , the final 80 minutes tomorrow will determine whether they remain in Division I of the McEwan 's National League . |
| 15 | One of the key differences between this type of play and educational drama is that the latter is specifically structured so as to create learning opportunities . |
| 16 | Firstly , to allow the mark , as it was , to be made anywhere in the field of play and subsequent kick to be allowed directly into touch , if so required . |
| 17 | For some clients , understanding the origins of their fears and stress is easy , for others many sessions of assessment and detailed analysis may not result in any certainty as to the genesis of their problems . |
| 18 | The schedules are designed to ensure that the task of assessment and subsequent planning is shared between all those involved in the care of a child , and that omissions are rectified as they become evident . |
| 19 | But users put up with this for a feeling of euphoria and heightened sensitivity . |
| 20 | Notice as you walk up this path the difference between the plantation on the left , which has a mixture of broadleaf and coniferous trees , and that on the right which is mostly pine . |
| 21 | Most of us experience ‘ Monday morning blues ’ — the feeling of tiredness and low spirits on the first day back at work after the weekend of rest . |
| 22 | The drum taps seek to restore the drum whose loss in modern drama is stated at the end of ‘ The Beating of a Drum ’ , while the striking suggestion that the choral passages ‘ to have a noise like a street drill ’ corresponds to Eliot 's praise of Le Sacre du Printemps for its uniting the noises of primitive and metropolitan life . |
| 23 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 24 | This was observed empirically by Mayhew ( 1977 ) who compared bones from the pellets of three species of owl and two species of diurnal raptor . |
| 25 | Two species are known from the Westbury fauna , the short-eared owl and the little owl , and many species of owl and diurnal birds of prey are recorded from the late Pleistocene of Britain , including snowy owls and European eagle owls ( Harrison , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | Eagle owls kill many other species of owl and diurnal raptor , including such species as tawny and long-eared owls and buzzards , as well as small carnivores ( Olsson , 1979 ) ; snowy owls kill short-eared owls ( Levin et al . , |
| 27 | This means the number of net-armed and club-armed models you have in your front rank is crucial . |
| 28 | Be able to tell the time and understand times expressed in terms of 12- and 24-hour clocks . |
| 29 | Table III shows the proportions of cases of alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver disease recorded . |
| 30 | The area has potential for the discovery of upper levels of mineralisation where copper grades may be higher ( MRP 78 ) . |