Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town centre is a huge jumble sale : combs , mirrors , ballpens , lipsticks , exercise books , clothespegs , Chiclets , knickers , buttons , baseball caps , sweetcorn , dried fish , the Encyclopedia of Sex ( in eight Roneo-ed pages ) , belts , scissors , batteries , plates , machetes , crucifixes , razor blades , padlocks , strips of mango in plastic bags , everything well-fingered . |
| 2 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 3 | They estimate an average annual consumption of 15 litres of whisky per head of the adult population . |
| 4 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 5 | If you have n't got a bottle of whisky at home or I 'm sure your mum can get one on the way in way in tomorrow ca n't she ? |
| 6 | I used to get bottles of whisky at Christmas and so forth . |
| 7 | Soon she was pouring herself a glass of whisky for breakfast , instead of a cup of tea . |
| 8 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 9 | I like a cup with a drop of whisky on top . |
| 10 | My own cardiologist likes his Scotch , as I do , and says that a glass of whisky in moderation does you no harm at all . |
| 11 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 12 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 13 | In view of the rapid ICJ transit in patients with carcinoid diarrhoea , our aim was to develop a model in which the effects and mechanisms of hyperserotoninemia on transit and fluid transport in this region could be investigated . |
| 14 | As we see , the most important effect of moisture on wood is to cause it to swell . |
| 15 | A cold shepherd will fumble with those vital injections and the evaporation of moisture from mother and lamb will reduce body temperatures still more if an alternative heat source is not available . |
| 16 | He did n't like any kind of sloppiness on stage . |
| 17 | Adverse winds carried them not to Kintail , from which they could have got within a few miles of Inverness by water , but to the shores of Loch Alsh , a sea-water inlet separating the Isle of Skye from the south-west tip of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 18 | The advantages of unity over diversity , or collectivism over individualism , are assumed to be self-evident and the obvious totalitarian overtones are ignored . |
| 19 | In their presence , the audience could feel its civilized surface annulled and replaced by a consoling sense of unity with nature . |
| 20 | So Thomas Traherne in the seventeenth century saw " something infinite behind everything " and expressed his joy at the feeling of unity with creation : You never Enjoy the World aright , till the sea itself floweth in your Veins , till you are Clothed with the Heavens , and Crowned with the Stars : … |
| 21 | And he finishes ‘ Hence , in fact , the law of the conditions of existence is the higher law , as it includes , through the inheritance of former adaptations , that of unity of type ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ If the objective is to make profit over a period of time , then the organisation pattern that helps to accomplish this conforms to the principle of unity of objective , ; , and |
| 23 | Is the concept of unity of life in the New Testament such that the salvation of man involves the liberation of nature ? |
| 24 | The object is stillness in movement , a kind of unity of stillness and motion . |
| 25 | This path is dictated both by the need for some transmission and by the principle of unity of command , but it is not always the swiftest . |
| 26 | However , the criticism that has been directed against the conflict between the principle of specialization ( that efficiency is increased by specialization ) and the principle of unity of command ( that efficiency is enhanced by having members in a determinate hierarchy of authority receive orders from no more than one person ) are relevant to a political view of organizations . |
| 27 | This leads to the now widely recognized potential for conflict between line and staff , especially when specialists are sub ordinated to generalists in the interest of unity of command . |
| 28 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 29 | In Diptera and Hymenoptera , with asynchronous fibrillar flight-muscles , a respiratory quotient of unity during flight indicates that carbohydrates are the main substrate . |
| 30 | And this discovery of unity in diversity , by which stylistic analysis is ultimately justified , can not be abstracted or summarized . |