Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freddie poured a measure of whisky into a coronation mug . |
| 2 | In Bailiffs of Dunwich v. Sterry , the plaintiffs had the right to wrecks at Dunwich and the defendant took a cask of whisky from a wreck before the plaintiffs could get it . |
| 3 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 4 | When he came home , he took a bottle of whisky from a cupboard and began to drink . |
| 5 | He fished out a bottle of whisky from a kit-bag , and cleaned two glasses on his towel . |
| 6 | It takes its structure from a set of correspondences between elements and persons , and the old definition of temperament as a mixture of qualities is present to the reader 's mind — the same definition that permits us to think of Faussone as a part of Levi , or as his alter ego . |
| 7 | The movement of ions through a membrane is controlled by the nature and number of charged molecules fixed in it . |
| 8 | The Lawson parameter is this time multiplied by the number density , the number of ions in a unit volume of plasma , n : the sustainment time is the length of time for which these conditions are maintained . |
| 9 | The increases in excise tax included increasing the federal gasoline tax from 9 to 14 cents per gallon , the renewal of the tax on airline tickets , increased from 8 to 10 per cent , the doubling of taxes on a six-pack of beer from 16 to 32 cents , increased taxes on wines and spirits , and a tax increase ( from 16 cents a pack to 20 cents ) on cigarettes . |
| 10 | We recently visited an inspector of taxes with a client . |
| 11 | Generally speaking , lateral water hazards run parallel with the line of play of a golf hole and they should be clearly marked with either red stakes or red lines . |
| 12 | This is shows how the full information game is also the limit of play in a game where z is not known . |
| 13 | A proper discussion of a football match can not occur if one of the participants is quite ignorant of the rules of the game ; and the kind of assessment of a restaurant meal that would involve the possible insertion of the establishment into a good food guide ( or perhaps its deletion from it ) will not get very far if one of the diners does not care for the meal because his idea of a gastronomic treat is a cheeseburger and french fries ( though within the order of the burger discriminations are possible ) . |
| 14 | Where a capital sum is paid to the settlor in the year of assessment by a body corporate connected with the settlement in that year it shall be assumed until the contrary is shown that an associated payment of an amount not less than the amount of the capital sum has been made to that body corporate by the trustees of the settlement ( s678(7) ) . |
| 15 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp returned to profitability in the first quarter of 1993 ended March 29 , reporting net income of $2.4m against a loss of $23.7m in the fourth quarter , on revenues of $69.5m , up 3% . |
| 16 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 17 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 18 | The new VMSclusters fully supports the use of FDDI as a network backbone interconnecting clusters nodes , and support for native FDDI adaptors as a cluster interconnect is promised . |
| 19 | In the early stages , however , Commodore believes that it needs to ensure a broad range of titles are available both to support the positioning of CDTV as a family leisure platform and to generate the initial installed base which will itself encourage the third party publishing on which the future of CDTV depends . |
| 20 | Things are bad enough now but if there is no sign of progress towards a settlement , the people who are still giving friendly waves to UN troops are likely to start throwing stones as they do in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | The USA had been withholding agreement to the guarantees to indicate its displeasure with the absence of progress towards a peace settlement . |
| 22 | If you mark your weight on a graph or chart this should provide a clear and rewarding sign of progress over a period of weeks and months . |
| 23 | Marsh and Campbell ( 1982 ) attribute the lack of progress to a number of factors , including the difficulty of studying aggression both in laboratory and naturalistic settings , and to the compartmentalization of the academic world which leads to lack of communication across disciplines . |
| 24 | Instead , comparison of progress with a checklist of internationally agreed good practice would be more helpful , though of course , knowledge of what constitutes good practice can only emerge after experience has accumulated . |
| 25 | The underlying approach was still remarkably uncritical and very much a matter of assertion and appeal to reason , the message couched in fairly bland terms and over-reliant on a concept of progress from a philistine past . |
| 26 | There are several methods of extending our rule to cope with this problem , all of which are essentially ways of considering programs restricted so that we only need worry about a finite set of values at a time . |
| 27 | There was no place in Müller 's scale of values for a loser . |
| 28 | to identify the range of values of a sale prices acceptable to you |
| 29 | In one study , the essence of secretions from a female 's armpit were smeared onto the upper lips of other females who , perhaps fortunately , were not told of the origin of the smears . |
| 30 | Modern audiences — I can hear Letterman saying this — wo n't go for the idea that Claudia , who is in some senses — although we ‘ re not spelling this out , okay — a new woman , would take part in the killing of lions for a documentary . |