Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With increased availability , pricing has dropped to a street price of $999 apiece for the 36MHz and $1,399 apiece for the 40MHz in quantities of 1,000 — quite different from the $1,900 price it gave The Microprocessor Report for the 40MHz back in December ( UX No 419 ) . |
| 3 | Waltz insists on explaining the behaviour of states solely at the level of the international system . |
| 4 | The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far . |
| 5 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 6 | In Out and Such one discourse is brought to bear on another through metaphor ; in Between , Thru , and Amalgamemnon the same type of metaphor is used to bring a number of discourses together in an increasingly interrogative conjunction . |
| 7 | Leaving aside the numerous examples of the rise and fall of parties over the past century , there are many instances of change even in the relatively short period of time since the end of the Second World War . |
| 8 | He felt Dashwood 's index finger inside his mouth , pushing the slippery piece of skin further into the moist orifice . |
| 9 | At the same time , ICI is actively engaged in the recovery and recycling of products already in the market . |
| 10 | The electrochemical technology business will be expanded by further small acquisitions , or joint ventures , Hunt says , and by the bringing to market of products already in the ICI development chain . |
| 11 | There are no statutory controls or codes of practice governing the description of products apart from the British Standard on terms used in disinfection which is widely ignored . |
| 12 | Flecks of sunshine dappling fissured bark are a reminder of summers past during the tree 's slow progress to maturity . |
| 13 | Although in terms of quantity more pottery has survived , it is the combination of the quantity of coins together with the official inscriptions and designs they bear that have made them more precisely datable than any other common class of artefact . |
| 14 | The Sergeant was driving , and the windscreen wipers were waving crescents of slush away from the glass as they headed on into the teeth of the storm . |
| 15 | By yesterday evening the largest lender , the Halifax , which held out a glimmer of hope earlier in the day that it could stick with its 13.5 per cent rate , acknowleged a rise was inevitable . |
| 16 | Alchian and Demsetz characterise the firm as involving a team use of inputs together with the occupancy of a central position by a party whose function is to monitor the outputs of the team members and the other factors of production employed in the firm . |
| 17 | In the sultry haze of late August , the only noises were the cicadas , the splash of the children in the pool and the rumble of thunder away over the Gorges du Verdon . |
| 18 | As we struggled up the hill with brambles and goose-grass snatching at our clothes there was an almighty clap of thunder together with a flash of lightning that seemed to strike the Jubilee Tower . |
| 19 | On Jan. 27 the Chilean Supreme Court agreed to submit questions on the Letelier case to US President Bush ( head of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) at the time of the killings ) , following allegations by Gen. ( retd ) Manuel Contreras and Col. Pedro Espinoza , the former head and chief of operations respectively of the DINA secret police during the 1973-90 Pinochet regime , that the Letelier attack had been carried out by CIA agents infiltrated into the DINA , in order to discredit the Pinochet regime . |
| 20 | Half a million different laws ( although no one knows for certain how many ) have insured that the legal system is rigged , keeping the cost of formality far beyond the reach of the average small Peruvain entrepreneur . |
| 21 | ‘ Feelings , ’ cried Dawn , and she jerked back her head and made a funny sort of noise halfway between a laugh and a howl . |
| 22 | bit of Araldite just on the end of the thread is |
| 23 | For the popular protestant version , one which is still shared probably by a majority of clergymen within the protestant denominations of the North , the church re-emerges after centuries of misguidance only with the Reformation . |
| 24 | Mind you , I think they 've had a bit of luck lately with a couple of wealthy chaps coming to live in the area and showing signs of interest . ’ |
| 25 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 26 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 27 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 28 | In a memorandum in that month of crisis the Ministry of Defence apparently for the first time addressed the issue of the foreign exchange costs of existing policy , in response to the claim by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of July that Britain 's overseas military expenditure was running at £140 million p.a . |
| 29 | To avoid both this and the possibility of being forced into national level negotiation with Wilson , the Federation Council at a meeting held on 29 November 1912 , resolved " that the state of the shipping trade warrants a substantial increase in the wages of seamen all round the coast from January 1st. next , and that meetings of the district committees to give effect to this resolution be held forthwith " . |
| 30 | Remember when the US Interstate Highway system , designed to get people out of cities fast in the event of an emergency , failed its first and only test during the anti-Vietnam riots in Washington in 1968 ? |