Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will see Roy , too , ‘ as bald as a bladder of lard ’ because of chemotherapy , hosting the world record indoor Aerobathon at Earl 's Court earlier this year . |
| 2 | You 're like a bladder of lard . |
| 3 | There 's a man just gone upstairs , and he 's got a head like a bladder of lard ! ’ |
| 4 | In Musselburgh , there was a beach game ( called fitba ) in which the goals were of little sticks and the ball a dried bladder of seaweed flicked with the middle finger to score . |
| 5 | Warming to this theme , Ferril suggests that the ‘ egg of life ’ is symbolized by the oval inflated bladder of pigskin and by the oval-shaped outdoor arenas to which worshippers flock in their thousands in search of ‘ an outlet from sexual frustration ’ which they hope to find in the ‘ masochism and sadism ’ displayed before them by a highly-schooled ‘ priesthood of young men ’ . |
| 6 | THE NAPOLEON OF NORTH LONDON |
| 7 | He was , as the Examiner put it , the ‘ Napoleon of football ’ , and ‘ probably no manager has more power from the team selection standpoint ’ . |
| 8 | And Daine must always have identified with the Napoleon of crime . |
| 9 | It aims to finance a minimum level of services , to equalize taxable resources between different local authorities , and to relieve the domestic ratepayer of part of the local tax burden . |
| 10 | I refer , of course , to manners of thought that have become formalised , certain convolutions , the consistent combination of apprehensions with little twistles of kinaesthetic intimation , d'ye follow me ? ’ |
| 11 | Through the letters and poetry there runs a strong current of paedophilia , which has an erotic strain ; but it is tempered by a humane appreciation of the freshness and generosity of children not yet tainted by the manners of society . |
| 12 | However , once this is conceded the basis of Oakeshott 's theory is challenged since he views these two forms of association as categorially distinct moral conditions and as shaping two wholly different manners of government and two profoundly different characters of human identity . |
| 13 | However , as Patrick Parrinder has pointed out , most of these approaches — in their concern with methodology rather than with the aims and purposes of English studies — have led to changes in manners of interpretation rather than in the choice of texts : they do not usually lead to any significant reconsideration of the worth of pursuing the interpretation of texts as such . " |
| 14 | Parliament 's role has not been executive , but supervisory — it has sought to subject the executive to certain limits and controls , to protect the liberties of the individual citizen against the arbitrary use of power , to focus the mind of the nation on the great issues of the day by the maintenance of a continuous dialogue or discussion , and by remaining at the centre of the stage to impose … ‘ manners of behaviour ’ on the whole political system . |
| 15 | In short , ‘ the dispositions and manners of man ’ have their causes in motions , the complexities of which are the province of natural philosophy . |
| 16 | From love the soul learns a thousand manners of culture , such culture as can not be found from the schools . |
| 17 | As dean , Smith attempted to revert to the practices and manners of Hall 's great predecessor Cyril Jackson [ q.v. ] , but he lacked the ability to manage those with whom a dean of Christ Church had to deal . |
| 18 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 19 | I write to say how appalled I was at the bad manners of BAIE members at the Editing for Industry awards dinner in Torquay . |
| 20 | This covers both his penchant for fusion , and his dippy mystic positivism and cosmology of love . |
| 21 | In the minds of reformers , however , the service was only one of two policies designed to bring working-class youth under the purview of state agencies and their officials . |
| 22 | After World War One , and especially by the nineteen thirties , the , the purview of psychoanalysis , as it were , had , had enlarged to include the ego , as we saw , and so , so what happened then was , the structure of the ego was explored and not just the repressions . |
| 23 | Thus , the purview of search must be broad , but — they say — no guidelines exist as to where the search should be focussed . |
| 24 | On the most restrictive view , that pragmatics is concerned with linguistically encoded aspects of context , such facts would seem to lie outside the purview of pragmatics . |
| 25 | Only a very small proportion was published : Antony Holborne 's Pavans , Galliards , Almains and Morley 's First Booke of Consort Lessons ( both 1599 ) , Dowland 's Lachrimae or Seaven Teares figured in seaven passionate Pavans … ( 1605 ) , Rosseter 's Lessons for Consort ( 1609 ) , two fantasias which Byrd included in Psalmes , Songs , and Sonnets ( 1611 ) and John Adson 's Courtly Masquing Ayres ( also 1611 ) . |
| 26 | Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality . |
| 27 | While RJ2.2.5 expressed , as expected , a DR-negative phenotype ( mean of fluorescence = 4.35 ) , AR was instead positive ( mean = 184.82 ) . |
| 28 | The mean of serum pepsinogen C values in five hypertrophic gastropathy patients with hyperpepsinogenaemia A was 296 ( 131 ) µg/l . |
| 29 | SOD and a combination of SOD and catalase significantly reduced ( p<0.05 ) the lesion area to 46.6% and 49.6% of the mean of control values . |
| 30 | Cosset ( 1984 ) provides evidence that the risk premium is highly volatile and random , and Cornell ( 1977 ) has shown that the risk premium changes sign over time but has a mean of zero . |