Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackburn are six points clear of Liverpool in the table and have beaten them to a place in the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals . |
| 2 | The Lancashire side recorded their 11th successive home win , and were seven points clear of Ipswich at the top , when they beat Newcastle United in February . |
| 3 | DENNIS GREENE , Wycombe 's £15,000 signing from Chelmsford in February , scored all his team 's goals in the 4–0 win at Altrincham to put them three points clear of Colchester in the race for the GM Vauxhall Conference title , writes Peter Ernest . |
| 4 | Dearden turned Tony Philliskirk 's spot kick around the post as Birmingham moved two points clear of Stoke with a game in hand . |
| 5 | Jaq would be well advised to steer well clear of Earth till the end of his days and serve the Ordo Hydra loyally . |
| 6 | Her strong legs were capable of taking her clear of pursers on the level or going uphill . |
| 7 | What sort of machine can run the largest and most demanding of spreadsheets without a hiccup and yet still be a reasonable price ? |
| 8 | Even a normal 2000 calories-worth of meals in a day would need to be supplemented by fourteen cakes at 500 calories each , or around twenty bars of chocolate , to add 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat in one day . |
| 9 | They are obviously brimful of confidence at the moment . ’ |
| 10 | On Dec. 23 the Swiss police in Berne had arrested Zeyal Sarhadi , a 25-year-old Iranian suspected of complicity in the murder of former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in Paris on Aug. 6 [ see pp. 38409 ; 38455 ] . |
| 11 | They were among four Russian boys who travelled to Westonbirt school near Tetbury to meet two Russian girl orphans , who 'll be educated free of change for a year . |
| 12 | The effect of time-zone changes , free of problems from the flight itself , can be removed by experiments in isolation chambers . |
| 13 | However , it is often necessary to use several solvents so that regions obscured by bands of one are free of interference in the spectrum of another . |
| 14 | If they are not used in the way nature intended they become more subject to dental disease and caries ; chewing fibre-rich foods helps to keep the teeth cleaner and free of plaque in a variety of different ways . |
| 15 | I find it quite unacceptable in principle that the common law should have no remedy for a taxpayer who has paid large sums or any sum of money to the revenue when those sums have been demanded pursuant to an invalid regulation and retained free of interest pending a decision of the courts . |
| 16 | It also shows , however , that sluices judiciously placed , and a barrier across the lake to keep one area free of encroachment from the sea , could allow birds and agriculture to flourish in concert ; an ideal indeed , for all the world . |
| 17 | Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day . |
| 18 | 4.33 Similarly , when lost earnings have meant that on return to work the plaintiff is free of tax for a period , having fallen below the level of earnings on which tax is payable , the tax that he has escaped during that period is a compensatory gain that must be taken into account in the assessment of his lost earnings ( Brayson v Wilmot-Breedon [ 1976 ] CLY 682 ) . |
| 19 | All viewers residing in areas which are cabled have a right to be connected free of charge to a service which provides them with a minimum of public channels , a local channel , an educational channel and a community channel with a studio which is available to citizens and associations . |
| 20 | It is quite common for specialist music solicitors to offer their services free of charge to a band who approach them , who are broke and are creating a ‘ buzz ’ . |
| 21 | Additionally the excellent periodicals such as the CAA 's GASIL and GASCO 's Flight Safety Bulletin are also sent free of charge to the majority of registered owners on a regular basis . |
| 22 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 23 | The change in price has been dramatic — in 1986 it was estimated that it would be impossible to distribute imported whisky free of charge at a cost of less than Y 2,600 a bottle . |
| 24 | You should obtain a Certificate of Posting , which is available free of charge at the counter . |
| 25 | Non-marketed services include all those public services which are provided free of charge at the point of consumption — health , defence , civil service , most schools , police , etc . |
| 26 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 27 | Textbooks published by the Institute/Faculty are available to tutors free of charge for the subject in which they are tutoring on application to the office of the Education Service . |
| 28 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
| 29 | At least a dozen pupils were educated free of charge on a promise that fees would be paid when the parents ' situation improved . |
| 30 | Moreover his duties had become more onerous for he was now teaching — still free of charge as the Founder 's will required — pupils from outside the area of the " towne of Stopforde [ and ] of other Townes thereabout " which had originally been stipulated . |