Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We provide a comprehensive range of sizes to suit every yacht specification for leisure use or for the longest of passages . |
| 2 | Apparently , the owners of the ranch bungalow were suspected of being involved in the exhumation of bodies at two local churches when skulls and other bones were removed , and also the disappearance of three goats on or about the thirteenth of each of the previous three months . |
| 3 | Please would you confirm immediately that you will be able to provide this article and some suitable photographs by or before the 31st of December . |
| 4 | As in previous economic crises , capital expenditure was hit hardest , but on a scale not experienced before — cut to a half or to a third of previous levels in some cases . |
| 5 | Patients who respond to antibiotics do not harbour propionibacteria resistant to the therapeutic drug , except for a few of those treated with topical erythromycin . |
| 6 | Too late she saw that — about a fraction of a second after seeing Luke Denner naked , except for the briefest of underpants , standing in front of a wardrobe , pulling a pair of jeans from a hanger . |
| 7 | Er we , we 'll agree that between the three of us and make sure we have the exact wording , cos we would n't want three three subjects would we ? |
| 8 | The area under the peak corresponding to the actin cable is about 5 times that for the largest of the peaks corresponding to cortical actin elsewhere . |
| 9 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |
| 10 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 11 | But Aston Martin point to the fact that of the 12,000 of their cars built over 80 years , 9,000 are still on the road . |
| 12 | And the point of his saying seems to be that with the littlest of faith , the great tasks can be accomplished . |
| 13 | ‘ The brent [ German brand = burned ] goose looks as if it has stuck its head and neck up a chimney and emerged sooty black — although with a little of its ‘ clerical collar ’ still clean . |
| 14 | The polecat and its grown family will know to keep as far away from the path and its numbered posts as possible , except in the dead of night when they can sniff around and pick up some bits of Kit-Kat . |
| 15 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 16 | Except in the shortest of particulars of claim , allegations should be divided into paragraphs and numbered consecutively . |
| 17 | The answer is that we can not , except in the vaguest of terms . |
| 18 | Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members . |
| 19 | Yes we know that from the first of April ninety-five it will probably no longer be the responsibility of the county council to set a budget for the Wiltshire police authority . |
| 20 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 21 | I know that in every one of your homes there is a JNF Blue Box and I know that wherever it is in your homes it is not gathering dust . |
| 22 | has the Minister er studied the Royal College of Nursing Report which was published early last month , which shows that in a third of accident and emergency units in hospitals , patients actually have to stay overnight er before they are admitted to er a ward and would she a accept that this really is not a satisfactory situation , it 's actually worse i outside London than it is in London , contrary to some views . |
| 23 | Perhaps those are things that in the best of all possible worlds we would n't want to but we are forced so to do . |
| 24 | Are we to suppose that in the thousands of millions of years before conscious life emerged in the world — and still today in those extensive parts of the universe where no conscious life has yet developed — no wavepacket has ever collapsed , no atom for certain decayed ? |
| 25 | There 's more of worth , more that uplifts in a single chorus of ‘ We Need Money' ’ than in a dozen of your picky , pedantic articles ! ’ |
| 26 | Ready stiffened and spongeable fabrics especially made for roller blinds can be bought by the metre , and have the additional advantage of being available in widths up to 175cm ( 69in ) , making joins unnecessary except on the widest of windows . |
| 27 | But best to remind you that on the tenth of May , we 've got Jerry coming . |
| 28 | The pilot confirmed that to the best of his knowledge the autostat system had operated normally during the take-off — as had the engine . |
| 29 | who can certify that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief , the statement in your application is true ; |
| 30 | Where inability to pay is based upon the failure to comply with a statutory demand , the date and manner of service of the demand must be stated and that to the best of the petitioner 's knowledge , the demand has neither been complied with nor set aside nor is any application to set aside outstanding ( r 6.8(2) ) . |