Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 2 | Thus diminution of prostacyclin production and stimulation of platelet aggregation both mediated by lipid peroxides could contribute to thrombosis on atheromatous plaques . |
| 3 | " It might perhaps be worth considering who controls your supply of coolie labor now . |
| 4 | The soliloquy in Renaissance texts is frequently given a special prominence because readers ( and the assumption is of play readers rather than audiences witnessing a production ) believe they are experiencing a moment of privileged revelation where the dramatist reveals a character 's interiority . |
| 5 | The National Rivers Authority is to prosecute C&P on Merseyside for three breaches of outfall consents earlier this year . |
| 6 | One day in 1826 I brought a box of toy soldiers home from Leeds . |
| 7 | This provides the College budget , which , based on the local detailed plan for course provision , is converted into resources , constrained not only by finance , but also by central directives about staffing levels and grades , the use of support services etc , and the way the support services are organised and controlled . |
| 8 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 9 | They were typical of apprentice lads all over England . |
| 10 | Sacha was a victim of skin cancer early in his career and suffered from cancer of the thyroid in 1971 . |
| 11 | The Deputy Under Secretary rubbed his nose , watched a flake of skin pirouette down to the opened pages of the file . |
| 12 | Petfish can be fed three per cent of their body weight daily , and even the most towering tub of stick food quickly goes . |
| 13 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 14 | I 'll give her a face and a heck of hair wash tonight but |
| 15 | She pushed a dark lock of hair back off her forehead , and looked up at him with a certain defiance . |
| 16 | See the tufts of hair spring out and the clitoris bulge . |
| 17 | Patrick obediently closed his eyes , feeling the sun warm and orange on his eyelids , hearing the click of the old woman 's scissors , feeling cold strands of hair drift occasionally across his face . |
| 18 | The tracheal supply of insect muscles also varies with their activity , visceral muscles being poorly supplied while flight-muscles are much more richly tracheated , with intracellular tracheoles penetrating the fibrils . |
| 19 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |
| 20 | The leaders of populist movements may be much more dependent upon receiving continuous high levels of electoral and political support , and hence unable to prevent mass demands turning the normal process of elite competition temporarily into a monistic system of domination . |
| 21 | Exponents of the external control variant of elite theory thus differ considerably over who does the external controlling ( see Figure 4. 1 ) . |
| 22 | It was in part dissatisfaction with the methods of elite theories as well as with its conclusions that led to the development of pluralism in political science ; this we now go on to consider . |
| 23 | Jacques Delors , later to be minister of finance in Mitterrand 's socialist government , records that when Monnet first gathered the steel masters together and demanded the reconstitution of prewar production capacity within four years , ‘ Two or more cases of heart seizure reportedly ensued ’ ( Delors , 1978 , p. 15 ) . |
| 24 | Each additional risk factor raises your chances of heart disease very substantially . |
| 25 | ( Note that what matters is when a gene affects survival and fertility , not when it is expressed ; for example , a gene which is expressed early in the development of the heart might increase the chance of heart disease much later in life . ) |
| 26 | However , it is generally acknowledged that to reduce the consumption of fat in our daily diet will almost certainly reduce the risk of heart disease along with other medical conditions . |
| 27 | Three principal features distinguished the 17 malignant from the 53 benign strictures in this series : ( 1 ) appearance late in the course of ulcerative colitis ( 61% probability of malignancy in strictures that develop after 20 years of disease v 0% probability in those occurring before 10 years ) ; ( 2 ) location proximal to the splenic flexure ( 86% probability of malignancy v 47% in sigmoid , 10% in rectum , and 0% in splenic flexure and descending colon ) ; and ( 3 ) symptomatic large bowel obstruction ( 100% probability of malignancy v only 14% in the absence of obstruction or constipation ) . |
| 28 | Even Robert Bakker , a paleontologist now at Colorado University and one of the most original and interesting of dinosaur academics , has not , I suggest , given the subject of dinosaur size as much attention as it deserves , and consequently many of his arguments concerning metabolism , which we will examine in the next chapter , remain fatally flawed . |
| 29 | However , it must be pointed out that the traditional explanation for the destruction of woodland from the late prehistoric period onwards to provide fuel for ironworking ( and salt boiling in the Midlands ) fails to take into account the fact that such activity is more likely to have engendered conservation and careful management of woodland resources rather than wholesale clearance . |
| 30 | The foolscap sheets of Croxley Script ( ‘ the all purpose paper ’ ) were by now beginning to look like an inventive infant 's representation of woodland scenery illicitly sketched on top of pages already thick with words . |