Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be overseeing the installation of a small-scale hydro-electric generating scheme bringing heating and lighting to the village of Mango in the foothills of the Karakoram range . |
| 2 | I poured a slug of whisky into the glass . |
| 3 | The curse was only employed twice — once against the magistrate who fined my father £100 and took away his publican 's licence for receiving a stolen lorry load of whisky during the war . |
| 4 | He had an electric kettle , some lemons , a pot of honey and a bottle of whisky beside the bed , to make himself soothing drinks . |
| 5 | Hence the glass of whisky at the dispatch box rather than mineral water : A premature celebration ? |
| 6 | David Perry , 35 , of Buttermere Avenue , Orford , Gary Toony , 25 , of Kendal Avenue , Orford , and Steven Lea , 27 , of St David 's Drive , Callands , all Warrington , admitted the theft of cases of whisky at the town 's Crown Court . |
| 7 | An elderly man sat at a table beside an open fire , a large pint of beer and a small glass of whisky on the table , an alsatian stretched out asleep at his feet . |
| 8 | That is the equivalent of weighing a fully-laden oil supertanker so accurately that a contraband bottle of whisky in the captain 's cabin would register on the scales . |
| 9 | The hammer lock kept my head down , but I could see he was carrying a bottle of whisky by the neck . |
| 10 | He took the bottle of whisky from the dresser and poured himself a drink . |
| 11 | That was a case in which the defendant took two bottles of whisky from the shelves and put them in her shopping bag . |
| 12 | She picked up a barely touched bottle of whisky from the dining-room table , frowning faintly as she studied its label . |
| 13 | ‘ Ah , yes , performance , ’ he murmured , taking another great gulp of whisky from the glass in his left hand , still holding her tightly with his right . |
| 14 | The man sitting at the other end of the bench took a quarter-bottle of whisky from the pocket of his torn donkey-jacket , twisted off the gold tin top and took a swig . |
| 15 | In Gloucestershire the average man in the vale , situated between the Cotswold Edge and the river Severn , was half as much again better off as in the Forest of Dean across the river ( see Table 2.2 ) . |
| 16 | Forest of Dean above the River Wye |
| 17 | Reading , by the early nineteenth century , was receiving coal from the Midlands via the Oxford Canal and from the Forest of Dean via the Kennet and Avon , but the main beneficiaries were the inland coalfields themselves and the areas adjacent to them . |
| 18 | With the Malvern Hill rising to the north ; the Wye Valley and rolling Herefordshire stretching to the Welsh borders to the west ; the secret Royal Forest of Dean to the South ; and the Severn Vale , Gloucester , Cheltenham and the Cotswolds to the east ; surely Newent must be the centre of England at its best . |
| 19 | It was on ‘ evidence ’ such as this that a Gloucestershire jury on 22 May 1300 reduced the Forest of Dean to the king 's demesne lands and woods . |
| 20 | The Severn had the longest uninterrupted stretch , and its 20- to 80-ton open barges carried down coal from Shropshire and salt from Droitwich , as well as agricultural produce , and brought up iron from the Forest of Dean for the Midlands metal makers , and a whole range of goods and groceries from Bristol . |
| 21 | The office of Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests , created in the eighteenth century , has been discontinued , but ‘ Deputy Surveyors ’ manage the New Forest and the Forest of Dean for the Forestry Commissioners . |
| 22 | One means suggested for transfer of moisture into the interior of Pangaea has been monsoonal circulation created by the Permian continental configuration . |
| 23 | Rory grinned , stirring his finger through a little patch of moisture on the side of his glass . |
| 24 | On covered surfaces soil and vegetation maintains a continuous presence of moisture on the rock surface while organic decay increases the quantity of organic acids and the abundance of carbon dioxide ; both increase the aggressiveness of the water percolating on to the rock surface . |
| 25 | HUNDREDS of animals were treated by St Tiggywinkle 's hospital for dehydration due to the lack of moisture in the soil this year . |
| 26 | Crop mark sites are mainly caused by differences in the amount of moisture in the soil . |
| 27 | Apart from the discomfort of rain , cold , wind or excessive heat , the amount of moisture in the soil affects the visibility of the layers that are being excavated . |
| 28 | Since few living rooms have a naturally humid atmosphere , unless you happen to have a humidifier installed for your own comfort , it 's necessary to create localised humidity for those plants that need plenty of moisture in the air . |
| 29 | Constant wetting makes nails soft and opaque , and chemical detergents and varnish removers decrease levels of moisture in the nail . |
| 30 | A rainbow is formed from the interaction of pure white sunlight with molecules of moisture in the atmosphere acting as prisms that break up the light into the respective colours perceived through our senses . |