Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you enter a 1990 subscription to OECD Economic Studies today , we will send you free of charge the special 1989–90 winter issue on ‘ Modelling the Effects of Agricultural Policies ’ . |
| 2 | To be guilty of theft the offender , as I shall call him , must act dishonestly and must have the intention of permanently depriving the owner of property . |
| 3 | Louis XIV , young , anxious to assert his personal and dynastic prestige and conscious of ruling the most powerful state in Europe , reacted vigorously . |
| 4 | Full of character the bridge may have been but woefully inadequate for the increasing traffic of the busy port and in 1856 the new bridge was opened . |
| 5 | Bowyer 's troopers , as professional soldiers are wont , soon made themselves at home in the courtyard and outhouses : within an hour , Sir John was receiving complaints of food being stolen from the kitchen ; jugs of wine mysteriously emptying ; and chickens , full of life the night before , suddenly being killed , plucked and spitted over makeshift fires . |
| 6 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 7 | Erm just as an example , in the cutouts distributed , the three square kilometres , the three hundred hectares , is erm er double of course the area that I took up to two thousand and six of one and a half . |
| 8 | In this way the Catholic Church has devitalized and drained of energy the power of those tears and confined women in the church to helplessness . |
| 9 | One might reasonably have expected , therefore , that the one historical event for which Panama is known ( and there is a clear distinction to be drawn here between an event and an accomplishment , for obviously the Canal is Panama 's best-known triumph and has become its own memorial ) should be remembered in an impressive construction , no matter how far from anywhere or how difficult of access the site may be . |
| 10 | When the mind is quiet of course the body is quiet and whatever illness you have can be healed more easily . ’ |