Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When An Teallach passes from sight behind foothills , the road turns down to scenery of a very different character , to the beautiful trees and parklands of Dundonnell and vistas of sylvan charm . |
| 2 | If it was n't such a poor country , in necessary debt to America — remember the invasion of Grenada ? — and the vagaries of the bauxite and tourist industries , this would be an Eden of mango and banana trees . |
| 3 | The structures of majors and independents are determined by the size of the repertoire each company handles . |
| 4 | He was a little the worse for drink and there had been an argument over a bottle of whisky that Drew had in his pocket . |
| 5 | Eugene Forster was in his bath , drawing contentedly on a cigar , tumbler of whisky and water held in his hand , arm laid languidly along the tiled border . |
| 6 | She smiled , thinking of whisky and water . |
| 7 | She ironically raised a glass of whisky and water , her aperitif . |
| 8 | A small bar was open in front of them bearing bottles of whisky and brandy . |
| 9 | After receiving cases of whisky and champagne for being both top trainer at Hamilton and provider of most runners at the track this year , Berry said : ‘ I 've only a few left to run at Edinburgh on Thursday and Doncaster this weekend , but I could have half a dozen for the all-weather courses . |
| 10 | Buy a bottle of whisky and order up a haggis . |
| 11 | Bottles of whisky and vodka stood on the mantelpiece of his room , often replaced . |
| 12 | Last month a coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death on the young Marine , who had drunk four or five bottles of lager and six quadruple or triple glasses of a mixture of whisky and vodka . |
| 13 | At the riverside we can see Mr Gould on his stomach out on the ice , pushing himself back from the hole in the river ; people are shouting and running around ; we head down the river towards the narrows and the gorge and my father slips and almost drops me and his breath smells of whisky and food . |
| 14 | ‘ I could live an ascetic life , lad , as long as it included plenty of whisky and tobacco . ’ |
| 15 | They were talking of Mr Monro , who had died , it seems , of whisky and soda many years before : before I was born . |
| 16 | I really ca n't stand the taste of whisky or brandy . |
| 17 | The Forest of Dean and Clearwell Caves ( a natural cave system mined for 2,500 years for iron ore ) are a twenty-minute drive away . |
| 18 | All the items are being stored in 4 garages at Coleford police station in the Forest of Dean and owners who may be able to help should phone 0594 836494 . |
| 19 | An introduction to the Major Attractions In the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley |
| 20 | Coming home to the lesbian in me , my joys and fears were of a different nature from those posed by continually having to straddle the mutually hostile worlds of lesbianism and heterosexuality . |
| 21 | Similarly , the insistence of lords that their tenants perform their feudal duty of watch and ward ( guet et garde ) , or carry out necessary repairs to castle wall or ditch , as their predecessors had customarily done , was an insistence which reflected economic necessity . |
| 22 | Of raptures and rendings . |
| 23 | Section head — the number of occasions that fraudulent claims are made , ie indicators of honesty or dishonesty . |
| 24 | Phrenologists became equally puzzled by villains with prominent bumps of honesty and integrity . |
| 25 | All too often , it is also a form of manipulation — a way of hurting or punishing others , or persuading them to do what we want , in the absence of honesty and integrity . |
| 26 | In her later novels Brooke-Rose uses techniques such as these to integrate different discourses , but in The Languages of Love linguistic transgression signals a lack of honesty and integrity . |
| 27 | The latest scandal , this time involving the Prime Minister himself , Pierre Beregovoy , hitherto regarded as the very model of honesty and integrity , seemed like the last straw . |
| 28 | The latest scandal , this time involving the Prime Minister himself , Pierre Beregovoy , hitherto regarded as the very model of honesty and integrity , seemed like the last straw . |
| 29 | He deceives those near to him by his professions of love — ‘ A man he is of honesty and trust ’ , Othello says ( 1 . |
| 30 | They portray him as a confused mixture of honesty and cantankerousness : a big heart governed by a stroppy mind . |