Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aye , ’ Bull replied laconically , accepting a glass of whisky and a pint of pale beer that appeared in front of him . |
| 2 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 3 | She levered herself away from the door , crossed to the heavy old sideboard and took out the bottle of whisky and a glass . |
| 4 | In another cupboard they found half a bottle of whisky and a dribble of brandy in the bottom of a Courvoisier bottle . |
| 5 | When Lili came back from Scotland with a bottle of whisky and a biscuit box emblazoned with the tartan of the clan Campbell I told her that I was frightened of growing old . |
| 6 | She jumped violently , spinning round to see Guy sprawled in an armchair by the window , a half-empty bottle of whisky and a glass on the black marble table beside him . |
| 7 | Bottle of whisky and a snowball . |
| 8 | Tin of Quality Street erm , tin of Quality Street , Dundee cake , bottle of Whisky and a bottle of Stones Ginger Wine , all we got last year was a Quality Street and that . |
| 9 | er a bottle of Whisky and a bottle of Stones Ginger Wine . |
| 10 | But I always remember they got this snap of whisky , the men got a nip of whisky and the women got a glass of wine when they come in . |
| 11 | The wardens of a number of royal forests — including Windsor , Clarendon , Feckenham , Galtres , the Forest of Dean and the Forest of the Peak in Derbyshire — were appointed by royal letters patent , usually to hold office during the king 's pleasure , but sometimes for a term of years , and exceptionally , as a special mark of royal favour , for life . |
| 12 | Under the new regime the farms paid by the wardens and foresters of fee of the New Forest , the Forest of Dean and the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges were substantially increased . |
| 13 | Iron was increasingly worked in the Forest of Dean and the high Weald in Sussex , which in wealth and social structure had much in common . |
| 14 | Even within industries this was so , as for example between the " free " miners of Cornwall and the Forest of Dean and the bonded pitmen of the north-east , or between the working small master clothier of the West Riding and cottage-based out-working weaver in the West Country . |
| 15 | Harold Bolter spoke on the review of headquarters and an overview of progress on TQM was given by Dr Bill Wilkinson and Gregg Butler . |
| 16 | So he divided the people , half to scour the right bank of the river down the forested links and narrows as far as the meadows above Logierait and force a signature from every proprietor , half to come with him to the north side ; they would all meet at Haugh of Ballechin after the sun had set and plan for tomorrow . |
| 17 | The combination of movement in the brick core , ingress of moisture and the corrosion of iron cramps has produced numerous cracks in the marble skin which have further weakened the structure . |
| 18 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 19 | Resistance to the French troops who ‘ occupied ’ Spain under cover of the Treaty of Fontainebleau and the national revolution against France which broke out all over unoccupied Spain came , therefore , from those whom the French commanders termed le petil peuple and from those local notables who were outside an administration manned by appointees of Godoy . |
| 20 | Initially they were Josiah ( ‘ Jack ’ ) Eccles , formerly head of the Liverpool Corporation electricity undertaking ; Alderman Lewis , a trade unionist and local Labour politician from the Midlands ; John Pickles , ex-county electrical engineer of Dumfries and an expert in rural electrification ; and Harry Randall , who had been chairman of the London Supply Companies Association . |
| 21 | Dunegal of Nithsdale had not come to Thorfinn 's standard , nor had any of the men of Dumfries and the western lands of St Cuthbert . |
| 22 | Goals via the through ball are always hard to come by at the highest level because of the quality of defenders and the sweeper system . |
| 23 | Nonconformists were slower to attempt some degree of unity than the Church of England , which began the Lambeth Conferences in 1867 . |
| 24 | The small number of observations and the biased nature of the sample did not produce average betas of unity and the effect on the overall portfolio risk was less dramatic , the lowest being 15 per cent for one of the 27-share portfolios and the highest being just under 26 per cent for one of the 2 share portfolios . |
| 25 | Even with such adjustments the proportion may vary between the two approaches if local authority expenditure contains a different proportion of taxes than the GNP as a whole . |
| 26 | The raising of taxes or the dispensing of laws without the assent of Parliament was declared to be illegal . |
| 27 | Ernst & Young fielded a former Inland Revenue Inspector of Taxes and a former VAT inspector — gamekeepers turned poacher as it were — to talk about the changes brought about by the Single Market to the regulations governing direct taxation and VAT . |
| 28 | It is only by stressing the element of play that the imposition of totalitarian meaning of any kind can be avoided . |
| 29 | Grandmaster Chess offers nine levels of play and a special level for board analysis or postal chess but , like most chess sims of its day ( it first was released in 1982 ) , the higher levels take for ever to make a move — Level Nine takes up to two hours ! |
| 30 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |