Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 2 | If you have n't got a bottle of whisky at home or I 'm sure your mum can get one on the way in way in tomorrow ca n't she ? |
| 3 | I used to get bottles of whisky at Christmas and so forth . |
| 4 | In view of the rapid ICJ transit in patients with carcinoid diarrhoea , our aim was to develop a model in which the effects and mechanisms of hyperserotoninemia on transit and fluid transport in this region could be investigated . |
| 5 | A cold shepherd will fumble with those vital injections and the evaporation of moisture from mother and lamb will reduce body temperatures still more if an alternative heat source is not available . |
| 6 | The object is stillness in movement , a kind of unity of stillness and motion . |
| 7 | The president 's speech also indicated a degree of unity between staff and students . |
| 8 | ‘ So , what 's the state of play between Rose and Dora ? ’ asked Jack . |
| 9 | Although studying for her G.C.S.E. this year , Lea-anna has still maintained a high standard of play in competitions and county matches as well as finding time to study for her Gold Award and achieving an 85 per cent pass rate on questions relating to the Rules of Golf . |
| 10 | It was against this gloomy backdrop , and in the knowledge that disease resistance , disease severity and drug efficacy are contingent upon the immune response to the parasites concerned , that immunologists got together earlier this year to assess the state of play in understanding and tackling the disease . |
| 11 | The area of assessment of experience and performance is especially pertinent to partnerships . |
| 12 | It is true that over a decade when the senior civil service was moving from being primarily regulatory in outlook to being primarily managerial , there was a lack of research , of assessment of situations before action could be properly planned . |
| 13 | Just as some teachers have been slow to appreciate the value of assessment in learning and teaching , similarly , many Catholic R.E . |
| 14 | Breast-feeding affects the time of recommencement in ovulation and menstruation — without it , the first menstruation after childbirth generally occurs after six to eight weeks , but lactation may delay this time . |
| 15 | Hitler was able to offer them a new mass base for the apparent consolidation of their leadership positions within the framework of an authoritarian system , together with the prospect of Germany attaining a position of hegemony within Europe and even world power status . |
| 16 | The second concerned the scale of decentralization of people and industry from a congested centre . |
| 17 | Jordan therefore tried to foster the appearance of progress towards peace while fearing the dangers peace might actually bring . |
| 18 | The study of evolution is the study of history , not of the working out of some mathematical programme of progress towards complexity or a Teilhardian urge to evolutionary perfection . |
| 19 | A joint commission of representatives of Croatia , the RSK , the EC and UNPROFOR set up in June suspended its negotiations on Nov. 9 due to lack of progress over demilitarization and other issues . |
| 20 | The time is ripe for a review of progress to date and an assessment of the likely future impact of computers on the craft of qualitative analysis . |
| 21 | The company 's philosophy was to keep staff informed , on a regular basis , of progress on relocation and a monthly meeting , known as the IDEC Staff Forum , was held in which elected staff representatives met members of management to discuss areas of interest . |
| 22 | The relative lack of progress on START and in particular the multilateral CFE negotiations ( being conducted in Vienna within the framework of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe , CSCE — see p. 37335 ) since the Malta summit were widely attributed to Soviet concern over the pace and implications of German unification , and whether a unified Germany could be allowed to be a member of NATO . |
| 23 | The real state of progress on site and the necessary and actual levels of resources ( these are often two different levels ) . |
| 24 | Two reports : on the hints of progress in Washington and on the mixed reaction in Israel |
| 25 | These include the idea of joint review of progress by students and teachers , and the idea of centre rather than pupil accreditation as the basis for the external moderation of records of achievement . |
| 26 | A draft State Ecological Programme , published on June 28 , 1989 , called for 400,000 million roubles to be spent , for an end to discharges of effluent into lakes and rivers by 2000 and for a halving of atmospheric pollutants by 2005 . |
| 27 | Courses include a two-day framing workshop with Diana Reynette-James , who has her own picture gallery , £75 ; fresh flower arranging with Jennifer Bentley , teacher of floristry to City and Guilds standard , £40 ; a three-day course in which you recane your own chair , £75 ; a two-day course in copper plate writing with calligrapher , Eric Smith , £60 . |
| 28 | Trading ships from the Inner Kingdoms ply these placid waters bearing horses from Ellyrion and the magical wares of Saphery to Lothern and returning laden with the wares of half the world . |
| 29 | In cases such as the present both the concept of want of consideration and payment under implied compulsion are in play . |
| 30 | In cases of personal injury it has been seen that the courts generally take a broad view of the question of kind of damage and also of the degree of foreseeability necessary . |