Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motherboard can then be removed either on its ' back plate or by removing any retaining nuts and screws and lifting the board clear of the machine . |
| 2 | Adding these however not only helps stability but also lifts the base clear of the ground making it easier to use the adjuster key . |
| 3 | Britta shook her hair free of the long fingers and their slow stroking . |
| 4 | Encouraged , he covered her mouth with his , and started to pull her shirt free of the waistband of her shorts , sliding his hands beneath to cup her breasts . |
| 5 | His hand moved to tug her shirt free of the waistband of her trousers and she felt his touch on the warmth of her skin , his fingers moulding her body like a contented tiger . |
| 6 | So being psychologists who ca n't get enough of it , empirical solid data , we tend to erm be a bit dismissive of the methods that were used by the Although these laws tend to describe what th what 's happening , they do n't actually tell you how they 're achieved . |
| 7 | Each remembered all too clearly Okawi 's parting words before they had pushed each canoe clear of the beach : |
| 8 | Penny Wright ( to whom I am indebted for this story ) was attending a healing ceremony which involved the temporary burial alive of the patient in this case a child . |
| 9 | She passed Meryl 's niche oblivious of the girl 's presence and paused to admire an altar cloth hanging near Anthea 's bedroom . |
| 10 | The lorry tipped gently into the ditch and wedged there , its offside front wheel clear of the ground . |
| 11 | That fact was not lost on Dundee player-manager Simon Stainrod after Saturday 's blow to his aim of steering his side clear of the relegation zone . |
| 12 | He hauled himself over the gravel clear of the chassis , stood up , opened the front passenger door , pulled the lever which unlocked the hood . |
| 13 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 14 | But this was not a reversion to the pattern and processes of concentration typical of the 1950s . |
| 15 | In 1864 , after the 1863 uprising and the massive repression that followed its collapse , Julian Łukaszewski , a former Polish commissioner in the Prussian government , wrote a pamphlet despairing of the Polish people 's ability ever again to control their own destiny : |
| 16 | Pop : The First 20 Hits ( Mute ) is exactly that — a greatest hits album worthy of the name , confirming Andy and Vince as lightweight pop maestros . |
| 17 | PRINTS made from 100 year old negatives had the members at Friday 's meeting of Alton Camera Club envious of the quality . |
| 18 | Go to any demonstration worthy of the name these days , and you are swamped by offers to buy from an intimidating array of news sheets , statements or appeals published by informal associations . |
| 19 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She searches him every time he comes home or goes out , and she keeps his bedroom bare of the usual toys and clutter so that she can see at a glance whether he has hidden any stolen property . ’ |
| 20 | Hooker tired of the dispute , ‘ for ’ , Walton relates , |
| 21 | To criticise language for being ‘ misleading ’ as to the state of affairs in the real world is to tilt at windmills , because language is not so much a limpid pool through which we are to glimpse the truth as a muddy pond full of the debris of history and ideology . |
| 22 | The Jacob of the larger Genesis narrative , his mind full of the dangers of his coming encounter with Esau , and thinking that Esau is already on his way to attack him , must naturally assume at first that his attacker is his brother . |
| 23 | On Oct. 24 the Senate narrowly failed to override the veto , voting by 66 to 34 in favour of the bill , one vote short of the two-thirds majority necessary to enact it over the objections of the President . |
| 24 | He observes a set of violations set in a microcosm and the photographs resonate with an irony reminiscent of the manner in which the behaviour of Lilliputians was chronicled by Jonathan Swift . |
| 25 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 26 | This practice , which is much more common in the United States , has acquired its own descriptive term , ‘ defensive medicine ’ , a term suggestive of the notion that an unnecessary and destructive tension exists between what the doctor thinks is good medicine and what the law requires of him . |
| 27 | David Solomons FCA , professor emeritus of the Wharton School of Accounting at the University of Philadelphia , has just been awarded the US 's top accounting honour . |
| 28 | He retired in 1964 with the title professor emeritus of the University of London . |
| 29 | To reach it , follow the path along above the treeline aware of the fall , just visible through the trees . |
| 30 | 5.12.4 Unless the Landlord shall otherwise direct to carry out and complete before the expiry of the Term any works required to be carried out to or in the Premises as a condition of any planning permission which may have been granted during the Term irrespective of the date by which such works were required to be carried out It is understandable that a landlord will wish to ensure that the tenant not only complies with planning legislation but also does not make application for planning permission without the landlord 's consent . |