Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And throughout the evening , making you almost afraid to blink in case you miss anything , Ninagawa fills the stage with a constantly shifting sequence of such pictures — including a magnificent riverside landscape with clumps of reeds bleached by the light of an enormous moon . |
| 3 | They settled , great clumps of blackness outlined against the sky . |
| 4 | ( ix ) Allow clumps of cells to settle to the bottom and then make a trial preparation by allowing one drop to evaporate onto a microscope slide . |
| 5 | For through the seemingly substantial chest of his great-great-grandfather he could glimpse the hazed , refracted image of the Ywe Lung , the great wheel of dragons broken by the planes of his ancestor 's body . |
| 6 | Reports in late January suggested that the United Kingdom Defence Ministry might have been aware of the export of components used in the manufacture of the Iraqi " super-gun " [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390-91 ; 37471 ; 38361 ] . |
| 7 | Do let us have a balance of such benefits against any alleged remote risks of lindane accumulating in the body fat of those who have the luxury of body fat . |
| 8 | The declared characteristics of tribunals specified in the Franks Report were ‘ cheapness , accessibility and freedom from technicality , expedition and expert knowledge of the particular subject ’ and stated that the objectives of tribunal procedure are ‘ openness , fairness and impartiality ’ . |
| 9 | Having mapped out the general social and drug career characteristics of users interviewed in the four snowball samples , the following section will discuss why these users had not come into contact with the various voluntary and statutory bodies expected to deal with the ‘ heroin problem ’ . |
| 10 | MINIS , when properly developed , could identify and measure the performance of departmental cost centres , and thereby provide a potential for the comprehensive reorganization of departments based upon the principle of decentralization to managerially autonomous accountable units . |
| 11 | We 're entitled now you know to have all sorts of things done at the doctors , coming up to the right age to be hav to be done er |
| 12 | Dr Mackie said ; ‘ It 's perfume sprays , cologne and the sorts of things left on the dressing table . ’ |
| 13 | And she 's got kiwi fruits and peppers and all sorts of things growing in the garden . |
| 14 | The decor is impressive , with all sorts of artefacts suspended from the ceiling and attached to the walls . |
| 15 | Here again he sees all sorts of factors dating from the distant past as limiting and distorting potentialities . |
| 16 | There were many different sorts of trials set for the field-worker ( something noted in their field-work experience by Douglas 1972 and van Maanen 1982 ) , and the apologies other members of the section later gave her because of this policeman 's conduct is proof that these other trials , too , were successfully passed . |
| 17 | These are the sorts of questions tackled in the research . |
| 18 | Different sorts of problems arise with the evidence provided in this way . |
| 19 | This was exciting and I was very soon trying crystals of all sorts of substances taken from the shelves of my own and my colleagues ' laboratories . |
| 20 | All sorts of people come through the Centre 's doors . |
| 21 | Not only can you enjoy the beauty of pond plants , but you 'll find all sorts of wildlife attracted to the water . |
| 22 | When they canvass , they must explain their programme and , conversely , must listen to all sorts of points put by the voters on their own doorsteps . |
| 23 | The association of thrust faulting on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau with normal faulting in its highest regions has been interpreted as suggesting that it has attained its maximum elevation , and that consequently it is tending to grow outwards rather than increase in altitude . |
| 24 | Last week the head teachers association of Cambridgeshire wrote to the county council to say that because of critical shortages of books , equipment and facilities and because of oversized classes , it would have serious difficulty providing the national curriculum . |
| 25 | Thus an association of features leads to the attribution of all of them to a common agency , rather like the association of subglacial channels with eskers in a different context . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , do shut up ! ’ said Molly , thinking of Jacqueline left in the sole care of Giovanna . |
| 27 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 28 | A light , high tang of fuel lay on the air . |
| 29 | By this valley of the Glen water Douglas had surely intended to make his way back to Kelso , for he had brought his army out of the cleft of Wooler close under the hills , bearing west , and only when they were clear of the town and close to Homildon village had they become aware of the English army drawn up facing them , closing this route , and in a position also to deny them access to the more easterly route by the Till . |
| 30 | Dark because it had once been the attic of the house and its only natural light came from a tiny oblong of glass set in the sloping roof . |