Example sentences of "[adj] of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blackburn are six points clear of Liverpool in the table and have beaten them to a place in the Coca-Cola Cup quarter-finals . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Jaq would be well advised to steer well clear of Earth till the end of his days and serve the Ordo Hydra loyally . |
| 6 | Her strong legs were capable of taking her clear of pursers on the level or going uphill . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They are obviously brimful of confidence at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | The effect of time-zone changes , free of problems from the flight itself , can be removed by experiments in isolation chambers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Second , it would be relatively free of risk to the American or allied airmen who would carry it out . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I am , however , inclined to believe that the authentic Hecataeus could not have stated , as Josephus makes him state , that Alexander gave the Samaritan territory free of tax to the Jews . |
| 17 | Additionally the excellent periodicals such as the CAA 's GASIL and GASCO 's Flight Safety Bulletin are also sent free of charge to the majority of registered owners on a regular basis . |
| 18 | Yes yeah , I , I 'm also very disappointed that er er , in the negotiations that they did n't er er , come up with any sort of housing erm I think the , it 's mucking any future negotiations with other partners or developers , speculators whoever they may be , I think it 's important that we have , er we strike a balance between bu houses for sale and rented accommodation because , I mean they need to now the building er , this house for sale and each time we we we we knock down flats or building and ga gave the land free of charge to the speculators we have to de-count people , those people are moving th the existing te er people on the waiting list and they 're getting moved further and further back and er I think i i i it 's a very worrying situation where we are continually giving land free of charge and they 're getting no rented accommodation . |
| 19 | 9.1.2 Any repaired or replaced goods shall be redelivered by the Seller free of charge to the original point of delivery but otherwise in accordance with and subject to these Conditions of Sale [ save that the period of [ twelve months ] referred to in Condition 9.1.1 shall be replaced by the unexpired portion of that period only ] . |
| 20 | The developer of the site , Ideal Homes Holdings , has undertaken to reserve the site and provide it free of charge to the school trustees in addition to a one-off payment of up to £150,000 . |
| 21 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 22 | You should obtain a Certificate of Posting , which is available free of charge at the counter . |
| 23 | Non-marketed services include all those public services which are provided free of charge at the point of consumption — health , defence , civil service , most schools , police , etc . |
| 24 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
| 25 | The latest initiative is the Livingston Software Innovation Centre — this is the only organisation in Europe that aims to remove the hassles plaguing start-up companies , by providing them with ‘ a nice roof over their heads ’ free of charge for the vital six months to a year before they start making money . |
| 26 | Textbooks published by the Institute/Faculty are available to tutors free of charge for the subject in which they are tutoring on application to the office of the Education Service . |
| 27 | I can supply you free of charge with the blue one if you wish then or we could think about it . |
| 28 | Moreover his duties had become more onerous for he was now teaching — still free of charge as the Founder 's will required — pupils from outside the area of the " towne of Stopforde [ and ] of other Townes thereabout " which had originally been stipulated . |
| 29 | Copies of the list , together with half-yearly updates which are issued free of charge in the summer , cost £22 each . |
| 30 | There has long been a lucrative private market in econometric models and the predictions that arise from them : nowadays these predictions come free of charge in the daily media prognostications of the specialist forecasters . |