Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This power station construction programme absorbed the greater part of their capital budgets , as well as a good deal of management time both at headquarters and in the divisions . |
| 2 | The surprise defeat of Puma Sunderland away to Top Spin Darlington meant that with two games in hand Ilkley need to win only one of their last two matches to be the North-East representatives in the area play-offs . |
| 3 | MORLEY STREET returned ‘ in smashing shape ’ following his impressive defeat of brother Granville Again in the Elite Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday . |
| 4 | The relative decline of the UK economy has been accompanied by the loss of world leadership both in successive individual industries and in fields of social and welfare reform . |
| 5 | I appreciate this difficulty with hearing in debates , church etc and conversation among groups of people , but my particular complaint is the loss of sound location out of doors mainly , but also in the home . |
| 6 | Another example of regional development has been in the relocation of Government Departments away from the south-east . |
| 7 | Palatinate of Durham Within the Department of Palaeography of the University of Durham , established in 1948 for the promotion of the study of manuscript material mainly from the northern counties , there are major collections dating from the eleventh to the nineteenth centuries . |
| 8 | The concentration of inhumation cemeteries close to the defences also suggests contraction , though several presumably earlier cremation urns from the same areas might counsel caution . |
| 9 | This success is something to share with the company 's business partners , host economies , shareholders , employees and , of course , drinkers of quality beers all over the world . |
| 10 | Korean capital , has one of the highest concentrations of sulphur dioxide anywhere in the world . |
| 11 | The government was warned by scientists of the UK Photochemical Oxidants Group , responsible for the report on nitrogen oxides , that many urban , and some rural areas , have atmospheric concentrations of nitrogen dioxide greatly in excess of critical levels as set by the UN Economic Commission for Europe . |
| 12 | It could be of interest , so taking a piece of cotton waste out of my pocket , I cleaned the accumulated filth off it , only to discover that on it was stamped ON-OFF . |
| 13 | Place a piece of cling film directly on top of the icing and another piece of cling film over the top of the bowl to prevent the icing from drying . |
| 14 | I let the piece of paper float out of my fingers . |
| 15 | Other aspects of parallelism fall now to be compared to and contrasted with the parallelism of greater precision . |
| 16 | TEN packets of lavatory paper still in their 1910 wrappers sold for £176 yesterday in an auction at Sandon Hall , Staffs . |
| 17 | In the last few years our understanding of pillow lavas has advanced dramatically , due almost entirely to some remarkable observations made by diver-geologists of pillow lavas actually in the process of formation in the sea off Hawaii . |
| 18 | Third , other places which feel the effect of soil erosion downstream in the form of deposition and floods must also be part of the place-based analytical concern for soil erosion for two reasons . |
| 19 | Erm as it happens this is the area where a spring of mineral water here for er for us to exploit . |
| 20 | Electrical resistivity imaging has been developed to aid the prediction of fluid flow both in fractures and in the matrix . |
| 21 | But we if we used a tin of bully beef we had to supply that tin of bully beef out of our own seven and six pence . |
| 22 | The review of wave energy currently under way is due to report early next year . |
| 23 | Indeed the proliferation of Unix implementations now on offer to desktop system users featuring integrated operating system kernels , graphics , iconic interfaces , networking and other components appears to have made the problem even more intractable . |
| 24 | Continued natural gas consumption growth depends on the maintenance of price levels well below oil . |
| 25 | Note : The said sum of £240 is made up of £180 allowed from arrears of rent charge down to 24th October 1895 , and £60 for two years arrears at £30 per annum down to 24th October 1897 . |
| 26 | At times of need there is normally a considerable degree of informal cooperation between farmers , but the essence of family farming especially in the DRAs is one of labour and financial self-sufficiency . |
| 27 | After 6 months of specialist treatment here at the National Spinal Injuries Unit , doctors said they 'd made miraculous progress . |
| 28 | The slamming of car doors and the revving of car engines late at night when customers are leaving would create a further disturbance . |
| 29 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |
| 30 | The peace and quiet of the morning was shattered by someone bellowing something from the direction of Brigade H.Q Suddenly into view comes the Brigadier , Derek Mills Roberts . |