Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] of [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 2 | As an over-zealous convert from Roman Catholicism , I have identified my fair share of Antichrists in the past — all centred on Rome and the Pope . |
| 3 | I have spilt my fair share of blood in Scotland , Wales and Gascony . ’ |
| 4 | Since the legal rules about the control of water pollution are expressed through the discretion of field officers it is important to understand their working definitions of pollution in terms of the kinds of events , activities , or social settings which could give rise to action on their part , whatever its ultimate conclusion . |
| 5 | The oldest Classic has come in for its usual share of criticism in the past few weeks , largely due to the disappointing number of entries . |
| 6 | During the talks Mubarak became the first Arab leader to accept the US suggestion that the Arab countries should drop their economic boycott of Israel in return for an Israeli freeze on its settlement activities . |
| 7 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 8 | from its low point of 106cm in the fourteenth century , it had climbed rapidly to more than 120cm in the seventeenth and was well on its way to the twentieth-century average of about 137cm at the withers . |
| 9 | With China 's international reputation already badly tarnished by its bloody suppression of protesters in Tiananmen Square , the Nobel Committee decision focuses attention on the use of equally brutal , though largely ignored , methods to silence opposition in the Himalayas . |
| 10 | Clearly quantum mechanics , with its irreducible degree of disturbance in making a measurement and the consequent uncertainty principle limiting knowledge , has not eased this problem . |
| 11 | But again if employees regard the social security entitlements as part of their total wages , they will respond by raising their total supply of labour in response to the increased value of their remuneration package — i.e. labour supply increases from S1 to S2 . |
| 12 | The sum total of their daily offering of music in worship far exceeds that of the cathedrals . |
| 13 | Many claims are made for their disinfectant properties but the results obtained may be more a function of their excellent detergency in removing , rather than destroying , micro-organisms and their recommended method of use in sequence with other cleaning agents followed by a number of rinses . |
| 14 | I think you would n't allow anyone to grab hold of your business — or anything else that you possess , ’ she said slowly , a slight flush tingeing his cheek at her clear vote of confidence in him . |
| 15 | Even her repeated conception of women in groups has firm roots in the classical . |
| 16 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 17 | At the PCT 's fourth extraordinary congress on Dec. 4-7 , held to discuss the prevailing atmosphere of political instability , the party formally relinquished its constitutional monopoly of power and abandoned its doctrinal foundation of Marxism in favour of social democracy . |
| 18 | ‘ I was delighted that so many people responded , which shows their high level of interest in the Force . ’ |
| 19 | At their official launch of CDTV in January , 1991 , Commodore announced 46 titles either in development or ready for launch . |
| 20 | This group needs a brief introduction at this stage , as its activities were interwoven with those of the SAS during its early period of operations in the Middle East . |
| 21 | This conclusion is based on their content analysis of newspapers in the years 1936 , 1946 and 1976 . |
| 22 | The first is to analyse , account for and document Hong Kong social policy as so far evolved and to attempt to assess its future lines of development in the light of the London — Peking accords . |
| 23 | Radford is standing for the chairmanship of the British Athletic Federation at its annual meeting of clubs in Birmingham on 20 March . |
| 24 | These views were remarkably prescient for their time , since astronomers now believe that newly spinning protosuns do shed their outer rings of material in this way . |
| 25 | Another hotel , the new Coppid Beech at Bracknell , has commissioned the company to produce its entire complement of tableware in God Insignia , Terracotta and Abigail patterns . |
| 26 | As for the requirement for companies which own or operate fishing vessels registered in the United Kingdom to have their principal place of business in the United Kingdom , little needs to be added to that which has already been stated in discussing the nationality requirements . |
| 27 | A ‘ qualified person ’ was defined by section 14(7) as a local authority in the United Kingdom or a British citizen resident and domiciled in the United Kingdom , and a ‘ qualified company ’ as a company incorporated and having its principal place of business in the United Kingdom , with at least 75 per cent . |
| 28 | No more than the fact that a company owning a fishing vessel is incorporated under the laws of the United Kingdom does the fact that it has its principal place of business in the United Kingdom and that 75 per cent . |
| 29 | ( 4 ) Where a recognised body which is an unlimited company is a partner in partnership with a solicitor or another recognised body it shall be stated on the stationery of the partnership , either as part of the body 's name or otherwise , that the recognised body is a body corporate except where this is so stated on a list of the names of all the partners maintained by the partnership at its principal place of business in pursuance of section 4(3) of the Business Names Act 1985 . |
| 30 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |