Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] of a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are the first of the king 's officers to know that Lord Grey of Ruthyn is carried off prisoner into Wales , and if this moment you turned out the muster of every shire between here and Denbigh , and loosed them into Clocaenog forest , do you think you would find hide or hair of a Welshman there ? |
| 2 | by the loading or unloading of a vehicle so far as concerns loading or unloading risk cover by a Motor Policy ; or |
| 3 | ( b ) that some parts or aspects of a topic naturally lend themselves to comparisons or joint treatment . |
| 4 | In those cases the report is not in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance so that even if negligently prepared it is not a matter of complaint within paragraph 3 of Part II to Schedule 12 . |
| 5 | Acting for a buyer , check the filed plan with the contract plan , if any ( you 'll have done this before exchange , if entries and plan were delivered with the draft contract ) ; but normally , except on the sale or lease of a part only of a property , the supply of a copy of the filed plan by the seller avoids the need for a contract plan . |
| 6 | the single motifs can be placed almost anywhere ; the centre-back of a jacket just above the hem , just above the cuffs on the sleeves , just below the shoulder seams on both sides of the jacket fronts or centre-back/centre-front of a skirt just above the hem . |
| 7 | An understanding of the aetiology of disease makes it appropriate to target treatment on the underlying cause or causes of an illness rather than the symptoms . |
| 8 | to gather separate sections or leaves of a book together in the correct order for binding . |
| 9 | All this information is related to molecular structure , but it is rarely possible to come to definite conclusions about the constitution , shape , size or conformation of a sample purely from its PE spectrum . |
| 10 | Anyone going beyond silent forms of disaffection had still to be prepared for the worst from the servants and supporters of a regime now in extremis . |
| 11 | Creggan could not rest or sleep , for out of the racing seas beneath their stance seemed to come troubled memories and images of a place where he once was , and eagles he once knew . |
| 12 | It is possible to pronounce the individual consonants and vowels of a language correctly and yet be almost unintelligible because the stress or rhythm is wrong . |
| 13 | Nicolae Ceauşescu devolved a considerable amount of the routine authority and privileges of a general-secretary on to his wife . |
| 14 | Whether or not things could be otherwise in a radically different society , as things are , the conviction and punishment of an offender necessarily carries a moral , condemnatory message and is seen as so doing . |
| 15 | Value engineering , as described in Chapter 7 , is a structured method of considering the functions and costs of a product together in order to provide overall improvement in value , providing benefits for both user and manufacturer . |
| 16 | Mengele was obsessed with twins , and five of the twins who had the terrible misfortune to figure in his ‘ studies ’ talk about what they went through and how they have coped with the memories in Sunday 's Everyman : My Brother , My Sister ( 10.20pm , — Gazza ‘ azza gon na to Italy at last , but the ups and downs of a year when his comeback looked anything but certain are charted in Sunday 's hour-long documentary Gazza The Fight Back ( 4pm , Tyne Tees , 5.30pm Yorks ) . |
| 17 | The extreme example of this would be to paralyse the animal , which would increase the pain and terror of a man even though he was unable to display any sign of pain . |
| 18 | The analysis and valuation of a claim often requires a very thorough knowledge of labour , plant and materials use with time . |
| 19 | There are such plains , but the typical profile of the seabed is one that contains gigantic mountain ranges , innumerable equally huge volcanoes , and gorges of a depth never dreamed of furrowing the deep-sea floor . |
| 20 | One expects the interpreter to influence the content , context and spirit of a message as little as possible in keeping with relaying it meaningfully in the second language . |
| 21 | He had the roughness and strength of a Norseman together with the tenderness , nay , even shyness , of a woman ; a great , big , generous character … |
| 22 | ‘ I pray that the commotion time will soon be past , that we may enjoy greater peace of mind and slumber of a night-time more soundly in our beds . |
| 23 | ( iii ) They should be taught how to skim-read so that they are able to discover the structure and gist of a text quickly . |
| 24 | And in 1972 the matching shoulder blades , vertebrae and pelvis of a sauropod even bigger than Brachiosaurus was dragged from the clay in Colorado : the largest vertebra was about 1.5 metres long , suggesting the animal was more than 16 metres tall , weighing over 80 tons and may have been 3 metres in length . |
| 25 | ‘ an audit is the independent examination of , and expression of an opinion on , the financial statements of an enterprise . ’ |
| 26 | One great joy about travelling by train is that places can be viewed at a distance , without the urgent compulsion to visit , in person , every stick and stone of a place systematically itemising contents and structure . |
| 27 | Teall 's aim was to publish the map and memoir of an area simultaneously and in some cases this was achieved . |
| 28 | The good recovery made by these two Bosnian patients means they 're now turning their thoughts to Bosnia and hopes of a reunion soon with friends and family.27 year old Dino Dugonijic and 26 year old Senad Mirvic were airlifted nine days ago for treatment at the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 29 | The good recovery made by these two Bosnian patients means they 're now turning their thoughts to Bosnia and hopes of a reunion soon with friends and family.27 year old Dino Dugonijic and 26 year old Senad Mirvic were airlifted nine days ago for treatment at the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 30 | Great players all , but builders of an innings rather than consistently fast scorers . |