Example sentences of "of [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police in the Co Armagh area have been on a state of alert since a massive IRA bomb devastated the centre of nearby Lurgan in March last year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | One other letter , while we 're mentioning receipts of things , the report does say that er Environmental Services Committee will be considering this and I have er yesterday received a letter from and I just want to tell you the outcome of that before the actual vote occurs , if there is one . |
| 7 | What better symbol of that than a new , improved BR . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And the implications of that as the government readied itself for the privatisation of British Airways were too horrific to contemplate . |
| 10 | Because the f the county 's forty one thousand figure I I 'll give you a different answer on th on the effect of that if the H B F's forecasts are the most accurate , . |
| 11 | But Conservative Coun. Peter Jones said the bill would have only been a fraction of that if the controlling Labour group had taken action when defects in the building were detailed in reports in 1985 and 1986 . |
| 12 | I thought to myself , ‘ I fancy a bit of that if the chance ever comes up ’ . |
| 13 | There had n't been so much of that though the last few years . |
| 14 | I 'm scared of that because the government is selling too many drugs now . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | What the first bit of that cos the thing in your mouth . |
| 17 | Such a system might have much more to offer in the way of conflict-resolution than the present system of customary principles as a loose framework within which states enter into negotiations . |
| 18 | The chairman of the London Board , Harry Randall , for example , was convinced of the need for Boards to earn a more ‘ commercial ’ rate of return , and his Board consistently had bigger surpluses and a higher level of self-financing than the others . |
| 19 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The [ Gold Coast ] line is equipped with Webb and Thompson 's instruments , and to explain the electric staff regulations , in a temperature somewhere around 90 degrees , to a native stationmaster who understands about as much of English as the average English railway official does of French , is a task which white officials feelingly affirm requires a considerable amount of patience , to say nothing of linguistic gymnastics . |
| 23 | Wallace 's Geographical Distribution of Animals of 1876 provided the model for the next generation of naturalists studying biogeography . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
| 25 | And I I think I must say that i it 's well certainly in Nottingham , my experience is that the church of England is and perhaps other churches , are more aware of this than the catholic church is . |
| 26 | Nothing provides a better demonstration of this than the continued usage of the administrative-judicial dichotomy as a basis for determining the applicability of natural justice . |
| 27 | Indeed it is easier to persuade the clerks in the education office of this than the teaching staff in schools . |
| 28 | There is a version of this where the children have to move forward the same number of paces as the time called out by the shark . |
| 29 | you know just because of this cos the French on the right left of centre you know . |
| 30 | I have always been very conscious of this because the last aircraft I flew as a regular airline pilot were the old Douglas DC-6 B and the Convair 340 . |