Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 2 | So the cost of a bottle of whisky that you buy on the plane home from holiday , is made up of both the manufacturer 's price and the airline 's profit . |
| 3 | John produced the remains of a bottle of whisky and they all had a dram to celebrate . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've bought a bottle of whisky and I 'm planning to drink my way right through it . ’ |
| 5 | Non-taxing moment : the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , sips from a glass of whisky as he announces no rise in excise duty for spirits |
| 6 | Lassa Java pushed him early on … what a night it was for the Meek family from the Forest of Dean as they watched their dogs dominate … |
| 7 | The program stack is initialised to begin at HIMEM and , because of this , you can not change the value of HIMEM when there is anything on the stack . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose I was feeling a bit guilty about being here , ’ she confessed in a burst of honesty that she instantly wished back . |
| 9 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 10 | In winter the ground becomes cold and the trees are unable to take in the same amount of moisture as they do in summer . |
| 11 | Their bodies were covered in a mist of moisture as they lay side by side . |
| 12 | I 'VE been told I retain a lot of moisture when I eat . |
| 13 | Much the same would have been thought of Jessica as she would have been seen as someone who walked away from an evil religion and stepped into the right path . |
| 14 | I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had . |
| 15 | She had stalked him with infinite care , she had attacked him frontally , she had thrown herself at him and teased him , and had finally reached the point of consummation where he was coming to dinner , in an empty house , wanting her . |
| 16 | The king , troubled by the prince 's displays of temperament and his unwillingness to follow the advice of those who had charge of him , mindful also of his own unrobust health , considered it would be unwise for himself and his brother to receive visitors at the present time . |
| 17 | As a consequence , the direct relationship between the cost calculation and the fixing of taxes that we have set up here is inapplicable . |
| 18 | Packet of crunchies if they 've got any . |
| 19 | I , I really feel two pound fifty is low for the quality of , of play that they 're seeing I mean other amateur groups not that we 're comparing ourselves , but they certainly charge more than us and quite honestly the end product on some of them is not up to our end product . |
| 20 | Indeed at first Kersal enjoyed the run of play and their half-time lead should have been more than 6 points , fly half Neil Pearson out of sorts , he missed 4 penalties . |
| 21 | It has been far more difficult however , despite the film technology , to assess the extent to which the gestures are used naturally yet significantly in the more taxing contexts of play and what some researchers call ‘ free living ’ . |
| 22 | Andy Cole is getting lots of play and lots of support at Newcastle — and he is top scorer right now ( bot cup&league ) in the premiership . |
| 23 | He left Darlington Hockey Club for Norton a few seasons ago to improve his standard of play and his new club is currently lying fourth in the prestigious northern premier league . |
| 24 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 25 | Confidence is particularly important during the development of inventions before they are granted patents because a patent will be refused if details of the invention have been made available to the public , as we shall see . |
| 26 | He had been delighted to the point of euphoria when she had bought the Victorian clothes . |
| 27 | There was no more talking from the Germans , and no more mortaring , the remaining part of the night passed fairly quickly with no further signs of tiredness as we lay and listened . |
| 28 | The same method of pultrusion as we have described for the GRP rod and tube is applied to carbon . |
| 29 | The law of confidence is concerned with the protection of secrets whether they be trade secrets , secrets of a personal nature or concerning the government of the country . |
| 30 | This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them . |