Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mrs McDougall was in her kitchen taking a batch of bread out of the oven . |
| 32 | Scottish football is littered with morality tales but none of them capture the tragedy of success quite like the story of Peter Marinello . |
| 33 | There has been a delegation of powers downwards to the Réunion and individual museums , and in 1991 the Réunion changed its statute to operate more like a private enterprise . |
| 34 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 35 | Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science . |
| 36 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 37 | The relative initial velocity of channel activation by cGMP was plotted against the concentration of cGMP either in the presence ( i ) or absence ( ○ ) of calmodulin . |
| 38 | Appropriately it kicks off on the stroke of midnight tomorrow with a pyrotechnic extravaganza likely to distract even the most serious Hogmanay party-goers . |
| 39 | This was the first departmental review under new procedure agreed with Heads of Departments earlier in the year . |
| 40 | As they rode cautiously along , Fenella caught glimpses of movement in between the trees . |
| 41 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 42 | We slept out on the last fields , leaving the 90 zigzags of path up to the plateau for the next day . |
| 43 | Tomorrow morning it 'll be dry wit hazy sunshine but increasing cloud is likely to give outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon . |
| 44 | This explained why it had not been possible to get four separate channels of sound out of the record . |
| 45 | The Working Party 's stance stems from the fact that 70 per cent of the Board 's distributable income arises from Test match generated funds , and therefore the Board sees as its ‘ principal function and power the promotion , financing and betterment of cricket generally with an essential object being the achievement of the highest possible standards at international level ’ . |
| 46 | The human females were taking trays of food out of the wall . |
| 47 | Her ability to achieve consensus in sensitive decisions was never at the price of individual promise or doctrinaire cost-cutting , and she was a resolute opponent of any moves to take books of quality out of the teaching of English . |
| 48 | It is the nature of the work that produces a tendency among men to see it as essential and elemental , all those images of men down in the abdomen of the earth , raiding its womb for the fuel that makes the world go round . |
| 49 | A second compulsory course ( taught by development studies specialists ) would be on the Principles and practice of development both at the macro level ( eg the place of the Third World countries in the world economy ) and the micro level ( eg community organisation ; role of church-related NGOs ) . |
| 50 | I 've got a knackered left arm where the car went over it ; they took a piece of bone out of the shoulder , so there 'll need to be a lot of physio on it . |
| 51 | He was never allowed to hold the colobus , though , and sat eating his piece of meat apart from the others . |
| 52 | I put the piece of meat back into the mess tin . |
| 53 | Alice 's room was tiny , with a single bed , one other piece of furniture apart from the wall cupboard , a small chair , and a narrow window that would not open . |
| 54 | Only when every part of the grass verge around the body had been scoured , and the piece of turf actually under the body remained the last to be examined , would Dr Barnard allow human feet to walk on the ground to approach the body . |
| 55 | He felt Dashwood 's index finger inside his mouth , pushing the slippery piece of skin further into the moist orifice . |
| 56 | Oh God do n't wan na do my fucking musical , I 've got ta make a flipping piece of music out from a stupid scale . |
| 57 | EVEN in these less affluent times , there are those who are happy to buy expensive , muddy carrots instead of bright orange ones at half the price , or an expensive piece of beef instead of a cut-price special offer . |
| 58 | Cut off a piece of plant just below the place where the leaves join the stem . |
| 59 | I love those ones where there 's a piece of cloth just with a safety pin or something like that . |
| 60 | He threw a piece of paper on to the floor . |