Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cut off a piece of plant just below the place where the leaves join the stem . |
| 32 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 33 | It was a unique happening to find thirteen acres of land together in the site and it 's not going to occur again . |
| 34 | A blotch of green light registered the psychic throb of life deep in the interior of the hulk . |
| 35 | Archaeology and history combine to show that jade was rated more highly than gold among some of the most sophisticated and highly civilized peoples of antiquity both in the Old World and the New.l To understand the appeal of jade it is essential to handle the material itself . |
| 36 | When within binocular range it may be seen on the side of Theta opposite to the 6.5-magnitude star . |
| 37 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 38 | Our cell culture experiments do not support this suggestion as they did not show the synergy between EGF and TAGH that would be predicted , but because of the inhibitory effect of TAGH alone at the concentrations used , they can not refute this possibility . |
| 39 | US trade associations have claimed that this represents a diversion of 1.93 billion lbs of aluminium away from the solid waste stream . |
| 40 | There was a trace of amusement now in the softness of his tone . |
| 41 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 42 | Given the alternative of storage internally in the mind or externally in a file ( paper-based or computer-based ) external records are much superior for literal reproductions at least in western societies ( there is anecdotal evidence concerning illiterate traders in other cultures who seem to have remarkable memories for detailed facts and numbers connected with their personal business ) . |
| 43 | Kim turned– tensing , hearing the soft murmur of voices further along the corridor , then relaxed . |
| 44 | The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far . |
| 45 | Went to the Royal Academy when I was doing my 'O' Levels , it was a Jackson follow up it was about , ambulance was about twelve foot by twelve foot , it was literally splodges of paint all over the fucking place , it was horrible , you can actually buy them at the Royal Academy , you ca n't buy them at , but he was asking a hundred thousand pounds for it , I could n't believe it , a trained monkey could of fucking painted that |
| 46 | Somehow he had missed the announcement that Tubby was in command of one of the Dublin Black and Tan units — he had enough to do maintaining the morale and the strictly military role of his own division in Cork without spending time scanning the lists of appointments elsewhere in the country . |
| 47 | After a few months of wrestling unsuccessfully with the strong weeds , the house was delighted to see activity in the grounds . |
| 48 | The white marble figure of Bacchus now in the ilex walk at Ham House in Richmond , for example , is almost certainly that mentioned in a 1672 inventory — ‘ For 1 Pedastall for ye figure Bacchus ’ . |
| 49 | ( 2 ) Chattel mortgage legislation does not apply to a genuine contract of hire even in the case of a sale and leaseback . |
| 50 | The National Gallery , Washington , already owns two smaller views of the ‘ The Castle of Nymphenburg ’ and ‘ A view of Munich ’ , donated by the Kress Foundation in 1961 , but these are less ‘ important ’ , being replicas of originals now in the Residenzmuseum , Munich . |
| 51 | The checks and balances of the US system lead to a fragmentation of power both within the executive and between it and the legislative branch , while executive dominance within the Canadian parliamentary system assures a more unitary approach . |
| 52 | Many can forage above ground at night but they laboriously shield themselves from predators by constructing covered run-ways , and thin crusts of mud all over the vegetation they are plundering . |
| 53 | My favourite tale , comes from Corner Pool , when Rob was fishing one cold March day : ‘ I was about to start at the top of the pool when I happened to spot a flicker of movement close to the north bank . |
| 54 | Although there may have been a settlement of Illyrian-Greeks there before the second century BC when the Roman occupation of Dalmatia began , there is little evidence of continuous use of the site until the seventh century AD . |
| 55 | There 's been recent reassessment of the traditional picture of the enforced flight from the labour force to domesticity on the part of women just after the war , and far from a flight , large-scale recruitment to the new industries in the early 1950s now seems to present a more historically accurate picture . |
| 56 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 57 | What a growing part of agriculture all over the world had in common was subjection to the industrial world economy . |
| 58 | It was possible , of course , that their man had taken his taxi to a part of London far from the place he was staying in . |
| 59 | At least the newspaper 's editorial columns served to remind me that Geneva had become part of Switzerland only in the previous year . |
| 60 | For ears treated surgically there was no significant advantage of adenoidectomy alone over the baseline category of tube insertion alone . |