Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the doctor discerned no more than the ghost of either in the Rector 's smile . |
| 2 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 3 | Autoworld at the Patrick Collection — A dazzling collection featuring the cars of yesterday plus the supercars of today . |
| 4 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
| 5 | Inoculation against smallpox had been practised since the 1720s , although it constituted a potentially lethal measure in itself and only achieved an erratic degree of success against a disease which probably claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population throughout the century , and disfigured many of the survivors . |
| 6 | It is significant that it does indeed sometimes happen ; we return to the question of when at the end of this section . |
| 7 | The danger of not including a statement of subject to contract is that one party may subsequently argue that the heads are a binding agreement either as the main contract or as a collateral contract . |
| 8 | ‘ But I see no reason for him to be hounded from office for endeavouring to restructure the BBC to meet the needs of tomorrow rather than the needs of yesterday under the thinly-veiled guise of impropriety. ’ — PA |
| 9 | The strains of Somewhere Over The Rainbow filtered through as they left perhaps someday their dreams will come true . |
| 10 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 11 | Although it is difficult to compare the publications of today with the comics of the 1950s , it must be pointed out that there is a surprising amount of science in today 's comics . |
| 12 | Indeed the importance of the correct citing of an author 's spelling is regularly marked by the insertion of sic into a citation by a second author who wishes to disclaim responsibility for an aberrant spelling . |
| 13 | D'Addario have led the way of late in the use of recycled paper for string packets . |
| 14 | They were here in a deserted old house in the middle of nowhere on a black and starless night in one of the more mysterious bits of Scotland , and there was a scrabbling , clawy sort of noise coming from the ceiling above him and this other drunk , stoned man . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's rented an old farmhouse right out in the middle of nowhere on the common , beyond your place and even more isolated , believe it or not . |
| 16 | Suffering badly — as usual — from boils ( he gave them all nicknames ) — ‘ it 's the badness coming out , ’ they would say — disenfranchised in the great educational paperchase , neither a macho miner nor a successful exception , he was a nobody in the middle of nowhere with no prospects . |
| 17 | The fire did not break out in a deserted building in the middle of nowhere in the wee small hours of the morning . |
| 18 | The consequence of this correlation between the explanatory variable and the equation error in equation ( 3.9 ) will be to bias the estimator of away from the true MPC t α : 1 and towards zero . |
| 19 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 20 | There is one sentiment all the Glosters share from the soldiers of today to the troops who fought for their country 80 years ago . |
| 21 | The contribution of Ultra to the conduct of the war both in terms of grand strategy and in individual operations was incalculable ; and its real rôle is still being assessed . |
| 22 | To describe the family of today as a relatively autonomous , conjugally-based unit is probably the best way to do justice to the variety of patterns that not only persist but which continue to evolve and develop , and to recognize some of the sources of contradiction and tension within the family as well as some of the sources of strength . |
| 23 | There was a case in Lothian last year where the health board objected to the conversion of somewhere into a 75 bed registered nursing home and they lost it on appeal . |
| 24 | If a tie results , then after a break of up to a minute an extension of two or three minutes is fought . |
| 25 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 26 | On the livestock side Stuart Ashworth warned that beef producers should brace themselves for a cut in the Beef Special Premium ‘ the base for Scotland is 244,000 male animals but there will be at least 300,000 head this year so we can anticipate a cut of somewhere in the region of 20-25 per cent in BSP payments . |
| 27 | ‘ It was not an uninteresting character , ’ said Nicholson , ‘ but it was a sort of aside from the film itself because the part was n't in the original script . |
| 28 | Double Benefits for you and your Spouse — £160 each per day for a period of up to a year — in the event of you both being hospitalised at the same time because of an accident , whilst both insured under the same policy . |
| 29 | We shall attempt to introduce into the timetable a period of up to a week in which to consider indicative offers and possibly commence negotiations with a preferred bidder . |
| 30 | I rang Haines to tell him of that fact and there was nothing else I could do as I had no notion of where in the Bahamas Max might be . |