Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could a turkey with a sell-by date of Dec 27 really be off by Dec 25 ? |
| 2 | The ruling was described by Le Monde of March 5 as representing as serious setback for the conservative government of Prime Minister Jozsef Antall . |
| 3 | During the remainder of the month there were frequent outbreaks of violence ; during the night of March 23-24 alone , 17 people were reported to have been killed . |
| 4 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 5 | Komplektov , a veteran diplomat specializing in US affairs and a Deputy Foreign Minister since 1982 , was described by the Washington Post of March 20 as more conservative than Bessmertnykh , his predecessor in the post . |
| 6 | I am sure that you will have felt indeed did the diocese of Middlesbrough proud too ’ . |
| 7 | The effect of this was to make the personnel of the Court of Napoleon III somewhat heterogeneous , for many of the Orléanist nobility were prepared to use the Tuileries , consoling themselves with the thought that the Emperor 's half-brother , the Duke de Morny , was held still to be faithful to Orléanist principles . |
| 8 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 9 | It incorporated the deadline of Jan. 15 rather than Jan. 1 , which the USA had originally advanced as more desirable . |
| 10 | Le Monde of Jan. 15 also reported that Kuwait 's ambassador in Baghdad , held under house arrest since Aug. 2 , 1990 and suffering from heart problems , had been released at the request of King Hussein and given permission to leave Iraq . |
| 11 | Will you please attend for your C T examination on Tuesday the fourth of February nine o'clock , if you can not attend at this time please ring extension |
| 12 | The revolution of February 1917 further aggravated this situation and brought about disruption of industry . |
| 13 | The Import Duties Bill of February 1932 also imposed a general tariff of 10 per cent on almost all imports , and the Import Duties Advisory Committee , which it formed quickly , raised the tariff to 20 per cent on manufactured goods , to between 25 and 30 per cent on luxury goods and to 33 per cent on chemicals and a wide range of other goods . |
| 14 | As we saw in the last chapter the anointed king of Israel was equipped with the Spirit to enable him to carry out his work ; hence the expectation of Isaiah 11:1 ff that the Messiah would also be equipped , in fuller measure , with that Spirit . |
| 15 | An employee who was reprimanded at the end of July 1980 subsequently demanded , through his solicitors , that the letter of reprimand be withdrawn . |
| 16 | As of July 1991 over 80 Assembly members , mostly from the NLD , had died , been imprisoned or had fled the country . |
| 17 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 31 also reported that as a gesture of goodwill Iraq had allowed thousands of Iranians to leave Kuwait for Iran by crossing Iraqi territory at the border between Khorramshahr and Basra . |
| 18 | On the weekend of Aug. 29-30 there were right-wing extremist attacks in at least 15 towns , primarily although not exclusively in eastern Germany . |
| 19 | Republic of Ireland Under-21 forward , Kieran Toal , given a free transfer by Manchester United , has joined Motherwell . |
| 20 | All Branches should be asked to ‘ close their books ’ at the end of December 1993 regardless of when their financial year started . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it would be dangerous to assign laws to Asclepiodatus simply on the basis of his probable knowledge : the praeceptio of Chlothar II also shows signs of influence from Roman and Burgundian Law . |
| 22 | The Praeceptio of Chlothar II similarly dealt with secular and religious legal matters . |
| 23 | So many members of the Council had also been conspicuous supporters of Jane that only Northumberland was immediately executed . |
| 24 | An English memorandum of May 1311 also attributed the difficulties of governance in Aquitaine to the ‘ arrogant presumption of the nobles and magnates [ potentium ] of the land ’ which engendered frivolous appeals to the court of France . |
| 25 | A bomb exploded outside the house of Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas in Sana'a on May 15 ; on the night of May 9-10 there had been a similar explosion outside the home of Salim Salih Mohammed , a member of Yemen 's provisional Presidential Council and of the Yemen Socialist Party leadership . |
| 26 | The fires of May 1862 only confirmed the authorities in their antipathy to students . |
| 27 | But the aftermath of the European Events of May 1968 still made waves , and the politics of papers like the Black Dwarf meant that alongside It 's report of American Ed Berman 's Inter Action and its development as a ‘ community arts centre ’ were stories of ‘ Communications for a Revolutionary Europe and World ’ , and reports from Prague under Soviet occupation . |
| 28 | On the weekend of May 26-27 there was a fresh escalation of violence . |
| 29 | Dr Beeching 's famous report of January 1963 then opened the floodgates to closure proposals , battles by campaigners and , invariably , consent by the Conservative Government which , after all , was the architect behind Dr Beeching 's appointment as Chairman charged with reducing losses . |
| 30 | However , in one week of January 1960 over 600,000 hectares were expropriated , including 70,000 acres of US-owned lands . |