Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Durrell took a slug of whisky and broke into an immediate ‘ I 'm not able to begin ‘ ta / praise the wondrous Araminta /I would like to say with flourish /what kind thoughts of her I nourish /A tangle though my thoughts get inta / describing love as Araminta ’ . |
| 2 | He was responsible for the exploitation of the mineral rights of the Crown — for example , for finding , mining and smelting iron in the forest of Chippenham and in the Forest of Dean and lead in the Forest of the Peak . |
| 3 | The public interest would hardly suffer by the curtailment of temptations to give or accept credit which were likely to follow the abolition of so dubious a guarantee of honesty as furnished by the liability to imprisonment . |
| 4 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 5 | The greatest value of all such bulk matter , however , is not in the nutrient content , but in its effect on the soil structure , its retention of moisture and harbouring of the bacteria . |
| 6 | The Forest Of Shadows encompasses most of the principality of Ostland and lies to the north of the Middle Mountains . |
| 7 | Where the issue of assessment and examining in the arts becomes problematical is in those instances where the justification can be seen to be overtly influenced by external factors . |
| 8 | With the introduction of National Vocational Qualifications , people undertaking training in the industry will have to become accustomed to new programmes of training and assessment , new City and Guilds numbers and new methods of assessment and testing as an essential part of their career pattern . |
| 9 | 6.2 Descriptions of these two instruments of assessment as given in the document The National Certificate — A Guide to Assessment , are : |
| 10 | MCD spectra provide information about the degeneracy of states and help with the assignment of electronic spectra . |
| 11 | But Harrison sees the recent rise in awareness of values as following from the realisation that they are the key to a good , effective school , with strong exam results and happy children . |
| 12 | According to a report in the Montreal Gazette the statues had been ‘ tampered with ’ in this way on several occasions , and the newspaper felt that they should be raised beyond the reach of pranksters or removed to an inside guarded site . |
| 13 | Emissions which currently amount to nearly 500,000 tonnes per year will be cut to 73,000 tonnes as a result of modernization to be carried out on the plants , in the towns of Nikel and Monchegorsk on the Kola peninsula . |
| 14 | The cube dependence is not a precise match with the 3.4 exponent obtained from viscosity measurements of long chains , but it is acceptable , particularly as the model gives a satisfactory picture of how a polymer chain can overcome the restraining influence of entanglements and move within the matrix . |
| 15 | These sorts of rule-breaking are amenable to strategies of correction or control in a way that most forms of isolated crime can not be . |
| 16 | The hindquarters are the means of support and act as a leverage for locomotion . |
| 17 | Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support . |
| 18 | Whatever level of public expenditure proves practicable , and however it is distributed , the primary source of support and care for the elderly people are informal and voluntary … |
| 19 | In a lengthy study of Britain it addressed in particular what it described as the " rather fashionable " debate on the imminence of change and decline in the Anglo-American relationship . |
| 20 | The main work-load on programming , the implementation of change and steering through the necessary mass of procedures and consultation to successful conclusion has fallen to my department 's team leaders , and in particular to Ruth in Personnel and training . |
| 21 | It came in mid-morning , and brought them all slipping through the branches and the coarse grass to lie hidden on either side the narrowing of the path with their bows strung and their shafts fitted , listening for the soft thudding of hooves that came as a reverberation along the ground rather than a sound . |
| 22 | But a major research project at the University of Bristol , led by Professor Ian Silver of the Department of Pathology and funded by the Horserace Betting Levy Board in the late 1970s , was unable to find any scientific evidence for the efficacy of this bizarre treatment . |
| 23 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 24 | The Commission 's other research findings — that much of forensic science is far from certain , capable of misinterpretation and relies upon the defence to draw out its limitations — only add to the need for the defence to have already access to real defence experts . |
| 25 | It was a sort of story that started with an aeroplane made by children in a garage . |
| 26 | Clare was set to watch sheep and geese on Helpston heath as a child of seven , and spent years of his childhood , and of his later life , wandering over the heath and through the patches of woodland that survived in the parish . |
| 27 | Despite these reservations , we can say something of the landscape of the Saxon Deerhurst estate , because , even without the fine detail , we can see vast areas of arable and pasture in the Severn Valley , areas of woodland and waste to the west over the river , and upland pasture on the Cotswolds to the east in a detached part of the estate . |
| 28 | As with the data manipulation unit , these units are able to carry out any one of an appropriate set of operations when signalled by the control unit ; for example , to read a digit punched on paper tape and store it in a specified store location or to retrieve a digit from a specified store location and print it on an electric typewriter . |
| 29 | The data manipulation unit is capable of performing any of a fixed set of operations as signalled by the control unit . |
| 30 | Age Concern would welcome an attempt to introduce a single unified system and favours an element of formality and monitoring with a local and ‘ user-friendly ’ face . |