Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [coord] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He grabbed the nearest bottle of whisky and poured a measure into a glass , watching her over the rim . |
| 2 | A lively tour of continental culture , seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future . |
| 3 | A lively tour of continental culture , seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future . |
| 4 | Depending on how long your first session lasts , you can move into the main areas of assessment and gain a fuller picture of the child and family history . |
| 5 | Kingdon 's ideas may seem like a recipe for environmental determinism , but the link drawn between a recent origin for humans and the fundamentally local nature of adaptation means that his book is also a powerful indictment of any attempt to rank human populations in terms of progress or to see the evolution of human races as anything other than short-term responses to particular problems . |
| 6 | There an attempt was to be made to reach agreement on the date of Easter and to end the discord between Egypt and Rome on the one hand and Syria and Asia Minor on the other . |
| 7 | Having explored some of the causes of change and identified the areas which will continue to be debated for the next decade , it is perhaps appropriate to try to identify the developments which have occurred in the past 30 years . |
| 8 | Dearlove 's analysis of local government reorganization in the early 1970s , The Reorganization of Local Government ( Cambridge , Cambridge University Press ; 1979 ) is particularly important because it encourages a political analysis of change and develops an impressive critique of more traditional or orthodox approaches . |
| 9 | While Charles listened to all this good advice , he drank up his glass of champagne and felt a bit better . |
| 10 | Later that night she came into my room in her kimono , bringing me a glass of champagne and carrying a book . |
| 11 | But Philip still did not trust the loyalty of Champagne and allowed the office of sénéchal ( steward of the royal household ) , which was customarily awarded to a member of the count of Champagne 's family , to lapse . |
| 12 | He popped the first bottle of champagne and poured a glass . |
| 13 | Will she send out a message to those who oppose smoking and belong to the brigade who say , ’ Do as I say and as I instruct you , ’ to the effect that they should leave ordinary people to get on with the job of smoking and supporting the economy ? |
| 14 | It certainly demonstrates the power of conjugation and provides a definite guide for further puzzles of this type . |
| 15 | On the other hand to disassociate the Church from the Kingdom breaks the nerve-cord of hope and destroys the community of commitment to Christ as Saviour and Lord . |
| 16 | West Ham 's 4–0 victory over Norwich on Saturday had offered a glimmer of hope and scuppered the planned mass second-half walk-out by supporters in their continuing protest at the general running of the club . |
| 17 | It removed an essential feature of ball-winning and turned the tournament into a lottery . |
| 18 | STEVE PYKE is a regular contributor to the pages of Esquire and took the photographs of Irish comedian Sean Hughes to be seen on pages 59 and 61 . |
| 19 | They scatter during the day to feed , but reassemble every night in a vast , noisy crowd , blanketing whole sections of woodland and making the trees almost invisible under their cloak of bodies . |
| 20 | The boys do their bit as well , throwing out diseased white-outs of noise and drenching the most innocent of melodies in liquefied squalor . |
| 21 | In a split-second I would build on this particle of noise and construct an idea of the kind of world that could produce such a phenomenon . |
| 22 | They developed a theory of the state which was a long way removed from the rational calculative tendencies of utilitarianism and provided a justification for the role of the state in the spheres of economic life and welfare which went beyond what has usually been countenanced within Liberalism , whether based on utilitarianism or Lockean theory . |
| 23 | The Rotherham Narrow Gauge Society was formed on August 1st 1992 by a group of local railway enthusiasts with the aim of building and operating a narrow gauge railway within the area . |
| 24 | Ukraine claimed that only 10 per cent should become CIS property , as the cost of building and maintaining the fleet had been borne by Ukraine . |
| 25 | However , even if one takes the view that King 's Cross is essential , there are better and more appropriate ways of building and developing a new station at King 's Cross than the one that British Rail has effectively forced upon us . |
| 26 | The finance branch simply wants charges that are high enough to recoup the costs of building and running the plant . |
| 27 | On the whole these efforts carried a national emphasis , as a number of educationalists , politicians , philosophers , and political theorists searched for new and more efficient ways of building and disseminating a national sense of ancestry , tradition , and universal " free " citizenship . |
| 28 | In this case a strategy of building and strengthening an existing practice had combined with organizational arrangements to increase small farmers ' output . |
| 29 | He also devoted a good deal of his investigations to the extraordinary satin bower-bird , a native of the area and so called for its remarkable habit of building and decorating a sort of stage-set , in which it would perform ritual mating dances . |
| 30 | The cost of building and launching a satellite can run to around $100 million . |