Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town centre is a huge jumble sale : combs , mirrors , ballpens , lipsticks , exercise books , clothespegs , Chiclets , knickers , buttons , baseball caps , sweetcorn , dried fish , the Encyclopedia of Sex ( in eight Roneo-ed pages ) , belts , scissors , batteries , plates , machetes , crucifixes , razor blades , padlocks , strips of mango in plastic bags , everything well-fingered . |
| 2 | At one end of the heavier door , now held up on trestles , Donald had hefted a stone jar of whisky into position and Donald McLaggan was drawing off cupsful and handing them out . |
| 3 | They estimate an average annual consumption of 15 litres of whisky per head of the adult population . |
| 4 | Some widows who have been moderate social drinkers begin to drink more during bereavement , in order to take the edge off their emotional pain ; but this of course creates more problems than it ever solves , so you should never encourage your elderly parent to start taking ‘ tonic ’ wine for her ‘ nerves ’ or a tot of whisky at night to help her to sleep , for you may be helping her to establish a habit that can easily get out of control and become very hard to break . |
| 5 | If you have n't got a bottle of whisky at home or I 'm sure your mum can get one on the way in way in tomorrow ca n't she ? |
| 6 | I used to get bottles of whisky at Christmas and so forth . |
| 7 | Soon she was pouring herself a glass of whisky for breakfast , instead of a cup of tea . |
| 8 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 9 | Peter and Nick were sitting on the sofa sharing a bottle of whisky with Sara 's backgammon board between them . |
| 10 | I like a cup with a drop of whisky on top . |
| 11 | Smiling , I rose to join them , and when they both pressed their lips to my cheeks I caught the smell of whisky on Edward 's breath . |
| 12 | Medical experts told the court that they found cocaine and half a bottle of whisky in Kim Brockwell 's body . |
| 13 | My own cardiologist likes his Scotch , as I do , and says that a glass of whisky in moderation does you no harm at all . |
| 14 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
| 15 | Doubling of the stamp duty threshold to £60,000 was also viewed as the right sort of nudge for the depressed housing market , while the exemption of whisky from excise duty increases was a desperately-sought boon for the industry . |
| 16 | Still caught in a clench of emotion after the effort of the ceremony , he had accepted a spilling cup of whisky from Donald McLaggan and drained it as though it was milk to quench a thirst . |
| 17 | In view of the rapid ICJ transit in patients with carcinoid diarrhoea , our aim was to develop a model in which the effects and mechanisms of hyperserotoninemia on transit and fluid transport in this region could be investigated . |
| 18 | The register opens some three weeks before the Declaration of Speyer of May 1199 had been drawn up . |
| 19 | Strict rules about the handling of money should be agreed before the event with the emphasis placed on protecting those involved from any possible accusation of mismanagement rather than doubts about the level of honesty of individuals ! |
| 20 | As we see , the most important effect of moisture on wood is to cause it to swell . |
| 21 | And I do n't bother to find myself a reflective surface wherein to follow them-although no doubt the gleam in Rainbow 's eye , or the slick of moisture on Anya 's parted lips , would do at a pinch . |
| 22 | A cold shepherd will fumble with those vital injections and the evaporation of moisture from mother and lamb will reduce body temperatures still more if an alternative heat source is not available . |
| 23 | He did n't like any kind of sloppiness on stage . |
| 24 | Biological filtration systems not only control ammonia and nitrite levels , they also promote the degradation of organic matter and reduce the accumulation of mulm in aquaria . |
| 25 | It was recognized in the Carolingian period by the author of the Life of Wulfram of Sens , who thought that the Frisian leader Radbod preferred to be with his ancestors in hell rather than alone in heaven . |
| 26 | With some exceptions ( the assembly of tubulin into microtubules is one ) , molecular biology does not collect quantitative information about the rates of processes happening in cells that physical chemists would consider essential to understanding . |
| 27 | On Jan. 23 Sikh militants ambushed Joshi 's cavalcade near the town of Jullunder in Punjab , killing five people , after the BJP rejected a last-minute appeal by the government to call off the march on the grounds that it could not guarantee protection against attacks by Sikh and Kashmiri militants . |
| 28 | The advantages of unity over diversity , or collectivism over individualism , are assumed to be self-evident and the obvious totalitarian overtones are ignored . |
| 29 | Presenting the treaty to the Bundestag , Helmut Kohl , the West German Federal Chancellor , declared , however , that this was the necessary price of unity with East Germany , and the house voted in favour by 445 votes to 60 ( the Greens and some SPD delegates ) with one abstention . |
| 30 | In their presence , the audience could feel its civilized surface annulled and replaced by a consoling sense of unity with nature . |