Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each member of staff a clear role specification is important if the grey areas of responsibility within which guilt and resentment breed are to be avoided . |
| 2 | This chance is increased by 10% for each point of Strength the character has over 4 and reduced by 10% for each point of Strength the character has below 4 . |
| 3 | This chance is increased by 10% for each point of Strength the character has over 4 and reduced by 10% for each point of Strength the character has below 4 . |
| 4 | But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week . |
| 5 | Did Quigley see me as some kind of John the Baptist figure ? |
| 6 | For this type of activity the ‘ film type ’ program can provide what is needed for a whole class with little teacher intervention . |
| 7 | For this type of picture the bit image file comes into its own . |
| 8 | We 've looked Strategic sites were looked at after that event of December the eighth . |
| 9 | When a particularly difficult and obscure accident occurs , the aircraft manufacturer may suspect the possibility of the failure of a particular component , and acting in a responsible manner and with the highest possible motives may circulate to all operators of that type of aircraft a design for modifying the component just in case it was the one that failed . |
| 10 | Despite this absence of co-ordination the British government was eager to move against the French and make sure they could not endanger the American colonies . |
| 11 | Furthermore , because of this distrust of abstraction the conservative ‘ neither understands those spontaneous forces on which a policy of freedom relies nor possesses a basis for formulating principles of policy ’ . |
| 12 | For a more complete account of this field of work the reader is referred to Ellis and Grieger ( 1977 ) , Dryden ( 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Out of this type of work a broad area of agreement has emerged , as a brief review will show . |
| 14 | What a lot of this sort of thing the Victorians had needed ! |
| 15 | For the purposes of this form of liability a person is a ‘ keeper ’ of the animal if ‘ ( a ) he owns the animal or has it in his possession ; or ( b ) he is the head of a household of which a member under the age of 16 owns the animal or has it in his possession ; and if at any time an animal ceases to be owned by or to be in the possession of a person , any person who immediately before that time was a keeper thereof … continues to be a keeper of the animal until another person becomes a keeper thereof … ’ |
| 16 | Against that sort of background the old-style domestic homicide seems almost cosy . ’ |
| 17 | Ryn station was one of his favourite haunts , or rather its approaches , ‘ the cinder path with the poplars … then the ditch full of duckweed , then the brown-grey soil of spaded potato fields , or plots planted with greenish purple-red cabbage … behind this stretch of ground the red-rusted or black rails in yellow sand ; here and there stacks of old timber — heaps of coal — discarded railway carriages . ’ |
| 18 | With that backdrop of hair the small round shoulders gained in defencelessness and pallor — but come on , the Isles was no place for local contrasts . |
| 19 | But faced with that kind of opposition the Yek would simply re-form and attack again , learning from each engagement until either they discovered how to defeat their adversaries or they were wiped out . |
| 20 | It has brought into that area of Belfast a vast number of new businesses and has revitalised that area of the town . |
| 21 | With this type of wave the swash , or rush of water up the beach from the breaking wave , is weak as the water plunges directly on to the beach . |
| 22 | With this type of scan the room reservations for every room for any given day can be brought into view . |
| 23 | With this easy-availability of text the size of corpora becoming available are orders of magnitude larger than those originally envisioned . |
| 24 | I fell madly in love with this area of Scotland the first time I set eyes on it , and subsequently crawled all over it for years , marvelling at how many caves Bonnie Prince Charlie managed to occupy in his escape from the Redcoats . |
| 25 | Obviously with this sort of music the ideas are n't going to be : ‘ Yes , my girlfriend is a nurse and I would like a job in the pit ’ . |
| 26 | With this definition of deindustrialization a range of indicators can be used to assess whether or not the UK economy is deindustrializing . |
| 27 | Thirdly , with this method of composition the lack of a fixed light source , the arbitrary juxtaposition of light and dark , becomes a consistent and , indeed , a salient feature of the style . |
| 28 | On the other hand , a critic who represents object texts in a mode akin to free indirect speech operates under an obligation to represent with some degree of fidelity the texts that he or she purports to ventriloquise . |
| 29 | It merely states that the normal and primary justification of any authority has to establish that it is qualified to follow with some degree of success the principles which should govern the decisions of all authorities . |
| 30 | It will be easy enough to bleach them with some Milk of Magnesia the night before he comes home . |