Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 2 | This was just as well , given my abysmal lack of knowledge about the department 's range of services . |
| 3 | One of my favourite types of jacquard on the Singer System knitting machines , is the type which the manuals call ‘ Norwegian ’ . |
| 4 | I was young enough to believe these tales implicitly , but my early sense of wonder in the hills has never entirely vanished . |
| 5 | There were no doubts or misgivings about the move from my chosen field of journalism to the wider horizons of radio broadcasting . |
| 6 | Even the sun , as if to mark my sudden sense of relief at being out of Czechoslovakia , chose to put in an appearance . |
| 7 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 8 | My only support at the time came from a Nigerian girl and a Ugandan Asian girl who were also in my class and shared my deep sense of alienation from our environment . |
| 9 | I remember , several weeks after my successful interview , discussing my impending change of job at a party with a neighbour who works at the local university . |
| 10 | Wryly I wondered how , after my romantic ideas of training to be a pilot , I came to be defending the Grand Hotel at Scarborough against all comers . |
| 11 | I climbed the highest of these one day when Mallaig was too crowded with visitors for my liking and suffered my only experience of hostility from a Highlander . |
| 12 | ‘ You shatter my precious hours of rest with a phone call , demand that I get out of bed and then insult my coffee-making skills . |
| 13 | As an over-zealous convert from Roman Catholicism , I have identified my fair share of Antichrists in the past — all centred on Rome and the Pope . |
| 14 | I have spilt my fair share of blood in Scotland , Wales and Gascony . ’ |
| 15 | I prepared myself for immersion , with my new book of instructions at hand , and then went down the steps of the mikva into the water , with my mother and friend and the attendant watching me . |
| 16 | A recent report named my local authority of Calderdale as the second most efficient metropolitan council in the country . |
| 17 | UNTIL READING THIS , I HAD NEVER REALIZED THAT MY UNQUESTIONED PICTURE OF NEANDERTHALS AS DARK AROSE FROM STANDARD RECONSTRUCTIONS … |
| 18 | Professor Bourdieu 's work is of great , great value and is one of my main sources of inspiration for the sociology of culture developed through the pages of this book . |
| 19 | Elinor would be sitting out there again , and they 'd be having their usual glass of champagne before lunch . |
| 20 | Since the legal rules about the control of water pollution are expressed through the discretion of field officers it is important to understand their working definitions of pollution in terms of the kinds of events , activities , or social settings which could give rise to action on their part , whatever its ultimate conclusion . |
| 21 | The House of Love inherit their particlar brand of psychedelia from early Echo and The Bunnymen and the Teardrop Explodes . |
| 22 | The Met Office , naturally , came in for its usual rounds of flak through the unpredictability of the English weather . |
| 23 | The oldest Classic has come in for its usual share of criticism in the past few weeks , largely due to the disappointing number of entries . |
| 24 | It absorbs up to a fifth of its dry weight of water without feeling damp , she says . |
| 25 | And Ruddock revealed that Shearer has fuelled their private war of nerves with ‘ threatening ’ phone calls . |
| 26 | During the talks Mubarak became the first Arab leader to accept the US suggestion that the Arab countries should drop their economic boycott of Israel in return for an Israeli freeze on its settlement activities . |
| 27 | Until well into the 1970s , the almost universal conventional wisdom — except perhaps in the United States — was that the government should stand ready to act as a deus ex machina , stepping in to save the capitalist system from its inherent defects of inequality in the distribution of the wealth it created , of unbalanced investment that created private affluence and public squalor , and or vulnerability to cyclical downturn , slump and unemployment ( for example , Shonfield , 1965 ; Galbraith , 1956 ) . |
| 28 | from its low point of 106cm in the fourteenth century , it had climbed rapidly to more than 120cm in the seventeenth and was well on its way to the twentieth-century average of about 137cm at the withers . |
| 29 | Even their acknowledgement of differences in sexuality is diluted by their desexualizing assimilation of lesbianism to cultural or biological ideals of femininity . |
| 30 | She put her usual slice of bread into the toaster , raising her eyebrows in enquiry . |