Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a good deal of evidence elsewhere in the Digest to show that in civil-law dispositions too intention was regarded as the key to application of a condition or a term ; and this goes back as early as Pegasus . |
| 2 | The hunters , usually dominant males , spend a great deal of time together in the process . |
| 3 | Adams ( 1985b ) illustrates this kind of difficulty in showing how a subject with good vision in the right eye , but perception of light only in the left eye , could easily bump into a half-open door before realising it was there . |
| 4 | One day their terms of reference will be agreed and there 'll be no mention of happiness anywhere in the document . |
| 5 | Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner . |
| 6 | Hering realized that disease was the result of imbalance somewhere in the body and that if a true cure was to be effected , the imbalance had to be corrected . |
| 7 | Tomorrow morning it 'll be dry wit hazy sunshine but increasing cloud is likely to give outbreaks of rain later in the afternoon . |
| 8 | It was a unique happening to find thirteen acres of land together in the site and it 's not going to occur again . |
| 9 | A blotch of green light registered the psychic throb of life deep in the interior of the hulk . |
| 10 | Archaeology and history combine to show that jade was rated more highly than gold among some of the most sophisticated and highly civilized peoples of antiquity both in the Old World and the New.l To understand the appeal of jade it is essential to handle the material itself . |
| 11 | When a taxi-driver took the band to the wrong side of town earlier in the day , the Franks simply sat on a nearby wall , chilled out and waited for ‘ someone else ’ to panic and discover their whereabouts . |
| 12 | There was a trace of amusement now in the softness of his tone . |
| 13 | Given the alternative of storage internally in the mind or externally in a file ( paper-based or computer-based ) external records are much superior for literal reproductions at least in western societies ( there is anecdotal evidence concerning illiterate traders in other cultures who seem to have remarkable memories for detailed facts and numbers connected with their personal business ) . |
| 14 | The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) Chattel mortgage legislation does not apply to a genuine contract of hire even in the case of a sale and leaseback . |
| 16 | If the layer thins by even one per cent , the result could be 15,000 new cases of cancer annually in the US alone . |
| 17 | He put it away , a bit of hesitation there in the Oxford United defence , and it 's a goal to Spurs scored by Gary Mafford , in fact he 's put the ball in the net ; mistake from Andy Melville gave Spurs a corner , the ball was n't cleared , Gascoigne played a one two , was blocked by United , it came out to Mafford in the end and the goal 's in so Spurs take the lead after eight minutes . |
| 18 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 19 | Be sure to scatter this kind of food thinly in the places where these species normally forage — a heap of cheese in the middle of the lawn will just attract the attentions of your local starlings . |
| 20 | It showed itself to have a horror of socialism already in the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | Given the variety of motif etc. in the Broad Street , Halstock , Bacchus and Leopard and Bishopstone pavements , it is difficult to imagine how they could have grown out of the Chedworth — Tockington sequence . |
| 22 | This will be the first UN mechanism with a clear mandate to examine cases of detained prisoners of conscience anywhere in the world . |
| 23 | It also acts as a standby in case of breakdown elsewhere in the brewery . |
| 24 | We see the seeds of alternative patterns of thought also in The Sycamore Tree when Nina temporarily loses her mind : |
| 25 | They will provide pockets of interest early in the year before the herbaceous plants make an impact . |
| 26 | He had had a long-lasting bout of influenza early in the year which antibiotics did n't alleviate , and the attack had weakened him somewhat . |
| 27 | In the same way , many weeds have been virtually eliminated from crops but the reservoir of seed still in the ground is enormous for species such as poppies and charlock . |
| 28 | There was a cry , followed shortly by a pounding of feet past the trench and down through the orchard , then silence , except for a rumble of artillery somewhere in the distance . |
| 29 | There seems to be no example yet available of this type of development anywhere in the world . |
| 30 | The mumming play , of which the pace-egg play is an Easter version , was performed originally at Christmas and I will be discussing survivals of this type of play later in the book . |