Example sentences of "of [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got on exceptionally well over a bottle of whisky which the expatriate had brought as a gift . |
| 2 | To see whether it is the high alcohol concentration or the possible lack of stimulants or their inability to act in the presence of high alcohol concentrations that is responsible for the absence of stimulatory action of whisky it would be interesting to study the effect of a simultaneous intragastric infusion of beer and whisky . |
| 3 | Stuart was very happy he 's gon na get a bottle of whisky it could n't of been a bottle of bacardi for me could it ! |
| 4 | For a fee of whisky he will help mortals caught in Fairyland to escape , or show them antidotes to spells and curses . |
| 5 | No matter how I tried to explain , he could n't see how the odd fifty pound note or bottle of whisky he spread around contributed to that image . |
| 6 | In the Forest of Dean they also took housebote and haybote and a tree trunk at Christmas , under the supervision of the verderers and other Forest officers : they employed men to make some of this wood into charcoal and to operate travelling forges for the smelting of iron , and were answerable to the Crown when these workmen took wood in the forest to which they were not entitled . |
| 7 | In the Forest of Dean there is a small herd of fallow deer around the Speech House in the centre of the Forest , and a large one in Highmeadow . |
| 8 | There were those in the dim corridors of Headquarters who said that his rise had been too fast . |
| 9 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 10 | yeah and that 's the problem with this sort of whatever sort of watch you wanted to do , unless unless we encourage and get the backing of the troops on the ground we 're kicking ourselves in the teeth |
| 11 | Concepts are formed from numerous percepts of similar things , and are the way by which we deal with the millions of percepts we form daily . |
| 12 | ‘ The bigger the political responsibility , the greater the duty of honesty one owes to the people , ’ he wrote in a resignation letter to party vice-secretary Giorgio Bogi . |
| 13 | Over to Mary 's quarters he went , while Alice remained locked in her apartment for fear of the plague of adders which her husband assured her infested the grounds . |
| 14 | Winds blowing over lakes pick up a tremendous amount of moisture which is then precipitated downwind of the lakes . |
| 15 | It also controls gradual water loss , retaining just the right amount of moisture your skin needs . |
| 16 | But with a certain amount of bemusement they 've had to overcome several problems to meet their latest challenge . |
| 17 | He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre . |
| 18 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 19 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 20 | Philip thus forced upon the Netherlanders a degree of unity which had hitherto not existed . |
| 21 | Perhaps a future generation will come to recognize that the most misguided , though well intentioned , feature of our present age was that , having discovered by the methods of genuine science that man is a single zoological species and thus a unity in his physical nature , we tried , by political coercion and propaganda , to impose on man , as cultural moral being , a comparable sense of unity which contradicts the very essence of our human nature . |
| 22 | And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle . |
| 23 | I mean , I do n't know what sort of taxes they have on eh , on drink and that sort of thing , but I think Austria is more or less the same same sort of tax . |
| 24 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 25 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 26 | The short answer was that when I was working as inspector of taxes I used to give these talks , I was required to give talks . |
| 27 | Whilst we did not expect the same standard of play we should have expected something better . |
| 28 | Gooch , who missed the Madras hammering because of illness , added : ‘ We have to come to terms with the style of play we have to use to combat the Indian spinners . |
| 29 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 30 | Though Invergordon 's shares dipped sharply early on in the morning after the figures , by the close of play they had recovered to end only 1p down at 269p . |