Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think you also were hitting the rawest of nerves within the church , and maybe within Archbishop McQuaid himself , by suggesting there may be homosexuality among priests and even implying that people could get pleasure from sex ? |
| 2 | He died in 1167 of plague after the defeat of the army near Tusculum . |
| 3 | I say this of course in the late twentieth century . |
| 4 | They used a thermal imaging camera which gives a picture like this of bodies on the ground . |
| 5 | Blackburn are six points clear of Liverpool in the table and have beaten them to a place in the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This consists of a heated brass rod with a polystyrene float , and is perfectly safe to use , keeping an area of water clear of ice in the severest weather . |
| 9 | Dearden turned Tony Philliskirk 's spot kick around the post as Birmingham moved two points clear of Stoke with a game in hand . |
| 10 | Jaq would be well advised to steer well clear of Earth till the end of his days and serve the Ordo Hydra loyally . |
| 11 | Her strong legs were capable of taking her clear of pursers on the level or going uphill . |
| 12 | In 1962 , the Federal courts ordered the University of Mississippi , one of the most segregated of states in the deep south , to enrol its first black students , James Meredith . |
| 13 | What sort of machine can run the largest and most demanding of spreadsheets without a hiccup and yet still be a reasonable price ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They are obviously brimful of confidence at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | They solved it by getting you to leave the bottom half of the Spectrum case attached to the PCB , hardly the neatest of ways around the problem . |
| 17 | But however you you wangled them some way and you you eventually learnt your trade by half going to classes at night school and half of information from the bakers you had to put two and two together and you worked it out . |
| 18 | Observers also noted that the ICRC tended to be associated in Iranian eyes with the Swiss government — with which there were continuing tensions because Switzerland appeared ready to allow the extradition to France of Zeyal Sarhadi , an Iranian suspected of involvement in the August 1991 murder of former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar [ see pp. 37409 ; 38697 ] . |
| 19 | 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 ] . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The effect of time-zone changes , free of problems from the flight itself , can be removed by experiments in isolation chambers . |
| 22 | Patients in their 80s now constitute 3.5% of those undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting at the Mayo Clinic ; 79% of 115 survivors were free of angina after a mean period of 29 months . |
| 23 | The net effect of these changes is , of course , that women are relatively free of child-rearing for a much longer period of their active lives and are , therefore , more likely to seek paid employment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Second , it would be relatively free of risk to the American or allied airmen who would carry it out . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If you are going to apply nail polish , first swab each nail free of grease with a little remover on cotton wool . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |