Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] " 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 | There has been little investigation , however , as to how the metastability of hepatic bile changes in the gall bladder of patients with or without cholesterol gall stones . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This covers both his penchant for fusion , and his dippy mystic positivism and cosmology of love . |
| 9 | We have developed from the geocentric cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears , through the heliocentric cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo , to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy , which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe . |
| 10 | He enhances our sense not only of the poets ' universe — me cosmology of Dante and Milton , for example — but also of the symbolism used by painters and architects . |
| 11 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thus , the purview of search must be broad , but — they say — no guidelines exist as to where the search should be focussed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Holding lands which lay on the boundaries of Plantagenet Aquitaine , the Capetian sénéschaussée of Toulouse , and the lordships of Foix-Béarn , Pardiac , Astarac and L'Isle jourdain , they were essentially marcher lords , attempting to enlarge and unite their territories . |
| 17 | And in the same year the First Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes of the greatest of all English lutenists , John Dowland ( 1563–1626 ) , was printed ‘ with Tableture for the Lute : So made that all the parts together , or either of them severally may be song to the Lute , Orpherian [ a species of cittern , tuned like a lute ] or Viol de Gambo ’ , a confused description which conceals the condition that the highest part must be sung . |
| 18 | On the other hand , Morley 's First Booke of Ayres , or little short Songs , to sing and play to the lute , with the bass viole ( 1600 ) , which includes that marvel of flexible English word-setting ‘ Thyrsis and Milla ’ , and ‘ It was a lover and his lass ’ , has no part-song version . |
| 19 | He bequeathes a number of books : a ‘ little booke of praiers ’ and service books belonging to his chapel , ‘ my saulter clasped with silver ’ , and ‘ my grete booke called saint Grall ’ ( British Library Royal MS 14 . |
| 20 | Two of the lyrics set by Cavendish ( xix and xx ) were later set by Michael East [ q.v. ] in his Madrigales to 3. 4. and 5. parts ( 1604 ) and Cavendish 's only other extant work , besides his published book , is a contribution to The Whole Booke of Psalmes , published in 1592 by Thomas East [ q.v. ] , thought to be the father of Michael East . |
| 21 | Ignoring all the preliminary pages ( 'prelims ' ) and reaching the ‘ First Booke of Moses called GENESIS ’ , I find in the bottom right-hand margin the capital letter A. The next leaf is number A2 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Solo lute-music at this period of its highest popularity was quite international ; among the most important of the numerous published lute-books — the manuscript collections are innumerable — are Sebastian Ochsenkun 's Tabulaturbuch ( Heidelberg , 1558 ) , the four books of Giacomo Gorzanis ( Venice , 1561–4 ) , Galilei 's ( Rome , 1563 ) , the four published by Matthäus Waisselius ( Frankfurt-on-Oder , 1573–92 ) , William Barley 's A new Booke of Tabliture , an instruction book for orpharion and bandora besides the lute ( London , 1596 ) , and Robert Dowland 's Varietie of Lutelessons ( London , 1610 ) containing 42 pieces by composers ‘ as well beyond the Seas as of our own country ’ . |
| 24 | In some respects Kerrier may have constituted an exception , yet although the mean of £4.4 per head may need scaling down to take account of the multitude of labourers discovered and roped in for the subsidy , upwards of seven-tenths of the assessments made in 1522 were at £2 — £4 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | While RJ2.2.5 expressed , as expected , a DR-negative phenotype ( mean of fluorescence = 4.35 ) , AR was instead positive ( mean = 184.82 ) . |
| 27 | Average relative humidity is high throughout the year , ranging from 80 to 88% saturation , with an annual mean of 85% . |
| 28 | The mean of serum pepsinogen C values in five hypertrophic gastropathy patients with hyperpepsinogenaemia A was 296 ( 131 ) µg/l . |
| 29 | Interestingly , the rt-PA started at a mean of I 19 minutes in Group A as opposed to 187 minutes in Group B. Surprisingly , even with that short time difference , the infarct related regional third ejection fraction in those who received earlier thrombolytic therapy ( Group A ) was 41% whilst in Group B it was 28% . |
| 30 | Calculating the mean of probabilities for each of the candidate letters across the length of the strings ( for example ljaclc = ( 99 + 62 + 100 + 74 + 99 + 75 ) /6 = 84.83 ) , and ordering the strings on the basis of these results gives table 2.1 below . |