Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back through the old progs I do n't see much sign of Forrester at all ! |
| 2 | The ongoing vigorous policy of offering paddock admission ( £7 per head ) at £10 per couple and Club enclosure facilities ( £12 individually , but £20 for couples ) , plus various theme days and a draw for a gallon of whisky at each fixture , will help to continue the success story . |
| 3 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 4 | I would naturally consider sympathetically any invitation to take part in clinical trials requiring ingestion of whisky for medicinal purposes . |
| 5 | Lord ‘ Bertie ’ Denham , the bluff and genial Chief Whip who floated between the Lords , White 's and Pratt 's proffering a glass of whisky to any peer tempted to vote against a government bill , likes to maintain that there is no inbuilt Conservative majority in the Lords , and during the first two Thatcher terms the government did indeed lose 111 votes . |
| 6 | The father of the writer George MacDonald declined a tot of whisky before suffering amputation of his leg above the knee . |
| 7 | was a bottle of of whisky from that distillery went for a huge p price at one of the big |
| 8 | A wild boar forages for food in its natural habitat ; something not seen in the Forest of Dean for 500 years . |
| 9 | Even their acknowledgement of differences in sexuality is diluted by their desexualizing assimilation of lesbianism to cultural or biological ideals of femininity . |
| 10 | The majority of recent commentators have argued that evidence of lesbianism among eighteenth century writers is very difficult to assess . |
| 11 | The Declaration of Speyer of 28 May 1199 , the great Staufen protest , was despatched to Innocent . |
| 12 | In retrospect it can be seen that the most fatal blunder of the campaign was John Smith 's Budget — proclaimed at the time as ‘ an unparalleled act of honesty by any opposition party going into an election ’ . |
| 13 | Tyminski announced on Oct. 4 that he would be returning to Canada , because " I do not want my presence here to create the appearance of honesty in these elections " . |
| 14 | Apart from good food and comfortable accommodation , The Royal Marine has a private swimming pool ; the only hotel north of Inverness with such a facility . |
| 15 | Moreover , the average number of graphs per annual report ( of those companies using graphs ) was 7.5 , with financial graphs tending to be prominently displayed near the front of the report . |
| 16 | The use and abuse of graphs in annual reports : theoretical framework and empirical study — Vivien Beattie and Michael John Jones . |
| 17 | The second marquess inherited the titles and the estates of his maternal grandfather on the death of the fifth/sixth Earl of Dumfries in 1803 and those of his paternal grandfather on the death of the first Marquess of Bute in 1814 . |
| 18 | Quicker than Sterland — but he was also quicker than a lot of defenders in those days . |
| 19 | He has been rector of Groomsport for 18 years and Rural Dean of Bangor since 1991 . |
| 20 | When we consider temperament in horses , and especially in families , it is most reasonable to look at the stallions in a family to get a more valid picture of the family characteristics , as stallions often exhibit traits of temperament to greater extremes than geldings and mares . |
| 21 | And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle . |
| 22 | At last it has achieved a respectable measure of unity at most levels of the party . |
| 23 | What is the basis of unity of many of the alliances formed ? |
| 24 | The idea of individuality and the idea of specificity have to be seen in conjunction with such ideas as the idea of possibility and the idea of unity of biographical time , both of which point to certain experiental modalities . |
| 25 | Two days later the Communists saw the new grouping as an " essentially disruptive organisation which can only hinder the development of unity between existing political parties and organisations against the Chamberlain Government " . |
| 26 | The very fact of unity between diverse political forces , popular frontists believed , together with an agreed programme of resistance to fascism and domestic social reforms , would transform the political situation in the country . |
| 27 | During an era which Milton described as one of ‘ sects and schisms ’ , Baxter promoted the cause of unity between true believers . |
| 28 | Franco was quick to exploit the lack of unity in Allied attitudes to Spain , accusing the United States of intransigence and ingratitude and stating defiantly that Spain would not curtail its aid to Germany under Allied duress . |
| 29 | When the antislavery movement as a movement began to have a history , the writing of it by participants or writers dependent upon the perspective of participants contributed to a unifying consciousness central to which was a veneration of the heroic first generation who in their functional and religious diversity confirmed the possibility of unity in common endeavour . |
| 30 | I do hope that the warm display of unity by all political parties over Maastricht does not herald the start of another dark road . |