Example sentences of "of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 6lb line I can bend into a fish and know that there is some bend remaining ; that I have not used all of the shock-absorber effect of the rod . |
| 2 | What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ? |
| 3 | However the seemingly obvious agricultural reference of the symbolism of the marriage poruva and the rotation of the chained couple was not explicitly recognized by my Pul Eliya informants . ) |
| 4 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 5 | The standard way to think of the manager-employee relationship is again as principal and agent respectively though as we will see shortly , the relationship can be reversed . |
| 6 | Let us turn to a different aspect of the manager-employee relationship . |
| 7 | ( Incidentally , it is interesting to note that this occurred only five days after the discovery of the planetoid Chiron , the astrological meaning of which includes the collaboration of previously separate and antagonistic disciplines . ) |
| 8 | ANOTHER victim of evil Dr Tom Courtney has come forward to tell of the horrific ordeal he put her through . |
| 9 | And what mother of young children , whether she owns a family pet or not , has not felt even more frightened of neighbourhood Rottweilers and Dobermans when she reads of the horrific savaging and killing of children by uncontrollable animals ? |
| 10 | PAUL Murnin has been told that he will never play again because of the horrific injury sustained against Crusaders earlier this season . |
| 11 | Watching a video replay of the horrific tumble , he said : ‘ Of course I 'll be back , it 's nonsense to say I will not ride again . |
| 12 | And , soon , in this great new age of student protest , the National Guard — in a repetition of the horrific violence ordered by Chicago 's Mayor Richard Daley only a few months before — used bayonets and tear gas to disperse anti-war demonstrators at Kent County University , Ohio ( in May 1970 ) . |
| 13 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 14 | For people who must be detained for the protection of the public because of the horrific nature of their crimes , we should be designing units which will genuinely help them to change to whatever extent is possible . |
| 15 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | If the Piper Alpha disaster or one of the horrific plane crashes are coming to mind , think again . |
| 17 | When bringing patients out of the hypnotized state I usually count to three . |
| 18 | Brazil 's 217 remaining Guarani Indians are campaigning to stop the building of a dam on the headwaters of the Cipivari river in Sao Paulo state . |
| 19 | Devotees of the 81-year-old broadcaster can spend a delightful evening with Johnners at Colchester Arts Centre on Thursday . |
| 20 | The move is helped by the invention of Mylar , a polyester-based film that takes the place of the brittle acetate — up to that point the only suitable produce for tape recording . |
| 21 | Hall ( 1988 ) , in particular , has argued that the power of that brand of New-Right Conservatism known as Thatcherism consists largely of the skilful way in which it has disconnected a number of themes — self-help , anti-statism , public order , anti-trade unionism , nationalism , share ownership — from the basically bourgeois discourse in which they have been traditionally lodged . |
| 22 | The speeches of famous visionary leaders such as Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King offer good examples of the skilful use of such rhetorical devices , which allow their listeners to ‘ see ’ the visions as if they were real . |
| 23 | A YOUNG girl comes from India to stay with her brother in Glasgow with only the seed of the banyan tree connecting her to her homeland . |
| 24 | The same lover had made palm trees out of Edwardian ostrich feathers and tied them to all the newel posts of the four-storey staircase . |
| 25 | Though detailed descriptive accounts of the muscular system of many insect species are available , the homologies of the muscles are sometimes difficult to decide and no uniform terminology exists . |
| 26 | Others close the pupil right down , and because of the muscular effort needed to create a small round opening , cats , crocodiles and many other nocturnal animals have pupils which close to form slits . |
| 27 | They are nicknamed the ‘ Cow and Calf ’ by sailors and ‘ Jacob and Esau ’ by locals because of the stark contrast , one with trees and one without . |
| 28 | You can tell he was a scum player though , because of the stark lack of modesty . |
| 29 | They were all aware of the stark tension around them . |
| 30 | Gilly had a vision of herself sailing around the living room of the foster home on her right foot like an ice skater . |