Example sentences of "of the [noun] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every weekend golfer knows that awful feeling of being within 20 yards of the green in two on a 500-yard hole and taking another three shots to get on to the putting surface . |
| 2 | This is the site of the battle in 1485 at which King Richard III was killed , and succeeded by Henry VII . |
| 3 | Eighty-five miles is a long way this early in the season , and the course is a hard one with an assent of the Whistlefield on each of the four laps of Rosneath . |
| 4 | Comparisons of the percentage of those aged 65 + living in communal establishments is problematic . |
| 5 | One of the sentences in one of the little stories in the booklet ( in its own words filled with useful and stimulating ideas to help executives lead and inspire their people ) talks about the fine arts of management . |
| 6 | And the King 's writ hardly runs in the march , to take a felon out of the hold of such as Isambard . ’ |
| 7 | Then they agreed that Mr Stewart should have the use of the church from twelve to two pm and the United Free Church service to begin at two o'clock . |
| 8 | Typically , in the wake of the uprisings of 1985 in Britain the government announced the advent of a new policy measure , the introduction of eight Inner City Task Forces to Moss Side ( Manchester ) , Chapeltown ( Leeds ) , Notting Hill ( London ) , North Peckham ( London ) , North Central ( Middlesbrough ) , Highfields ( Leicester ) , St Paul 's ( Bristol ) and Handsworth ( Birmingham ) . |
| 9 | You then put the point of the compass at one of the junctions and make another arc . |
| 10 | Look , too , for a memorandum of a subsequent conveyance , etc , endorsed on a probate or letters of administration ; if there 's none , but there ought to be one , make a requisition on the point , such as : The abstract does not reveal a memorandum of the conveyance of endorsed on the probate dated . |
| 11 | 7.4 Whenever any sum of money is recoverable from or payable by you to us as a result of the operation of any of these conditions or any breach by you of the same , such sum may be deducted by us from any sum then due or which at any time thereafter may become due to you under any other order or transaction placed or entered into by us with you . |
| 12 | The history of the domestication of many of the fruit trees of the tropics may therefore never be disentangled , though it is known that some of them at least , like the duku and lanseh , forms of Lansium domesticum ( Meliaceae ) , are apomicts . |
| 13 | The fighting intensified on Jan. 11 as the previously neutral Murasad subclan entered the battle , against Farah Aydid , after the looting of the home of one of its leaders . |
| 14 | It is now virtually certain that France will have a nuclear generating capacity of the order of 55 to 60 GWe by 1990 . |
| 15 | The British were tempted to behave as if the disparity in power between the United States and themselves was only of the order of two to one when seven to one would have been a more realistic figure . |
| 16 | The vocabulary size for a system is often very small ( of the order of hundreds of words ) . |
| 17 | First , they generally need very large memory stores , typically of the order of hundreds of megabytes . |
| 18 | The average income elasticity of demand for imports was of the order of 1.5 to 2.0 between the late 1950s and the early 1970s , but this obscures quite wide variations between goods and there are strong grounds for believing that in expansionary phases the ratio rose to as high as 5.0 or 6.0 ; and even the average for manufactured goods was just over 3.0 [ Eltis , 1979 ] . |
| 19 | They are found at the plasma membrane , they have a for a for a channels , a very large single channel conductance of the order of fifty to two hundred picosiemens . |
| 20 | In assistants particularly with part time you 're talking of the order of fifty to fifty five percent . |
| 21 | Including the small flocks , totalling 100 birds or fewer , occurring on ponds other than those listed on page 86 , the total wintering population of the county appears to be of the order of 1,000 to 1,400 birds . |
| 22 | Their total numbers were assessed as being of the order of 350–400,000 against the Allies ' 500,000 . |
| 23 | Well , of course , there are big atoms and small atoms hydrogen is a very small atom , uranium is a big atom — but something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a centimetre . |
| 24 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 25 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 26 | The probable penalty in packing density for a large file is of the order of 0.5 to 1 per cent , while for small files it can be very much more — 50 per cent in the most extreme case , when the file takes up only one data cylinder . |
| 27 | Results suggest that melt residence times beneath basaltic volcanoes are only of the order of tens of years , and stored melt volumes are consequently small ( 1 km 3 or less ) . |
| 28 | So a lot of , a lot of the problems with some of the areas of the work is because you do it so infrequent it 's not that you ca n't do it , it 's that you feel |
| 29 | Douglas Reed , for example , who resigned as Central European Correspondent of The Times in 1938 over his newspaper 's support for appeasement politics , and whose background and life history read like the classic facsimile of the alleged fascist , proved in practice to be a crusading anti-fascist . |
| 30 | The new report , entitled Illegal Tropical Timber Trade : Asia-Pacific , estimates the scale of the problem at hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest being illegally logged each year and billions of dollars lost in foreign exchange . |