Example sentences of "of [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pied flycatchers have been the subject of study in the Forest of Dean ever since 1942 when the first eighty boxes were nailed into place . |
| 2 | Other districts were illegally withdrawn from the Forest jurisdiction by magnates to make their private chases — such as the Earl Marshal 's chase near Chepstow , carved out of the Forest of Dean early in Henry III 's reign ; the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 's chase of Cannock ; and the Bishop of Ely 's chase of Somersham . |
| 3 | Then Hereford substitute Colin Anderson ran into a crowd of defenders only to be brought down by Barrow . |
| 4 | He has , however introduced a significant shift in the burden of taxes away from business on to individuals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The heart of the Swaledale mining field is a vein called the Friarfold Vein running from the neighbourhood of Keld across to Arkengarthdale . |
| 8 | Waltz insists on explaining the behaviour of states solely at the level of the international system . |
| 9 | The work of Feyerabend and Kuhn suggests that unqualified talk of progress even in the natural sciences is going too far . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He spoke slowly , deliberately , first in the music of Quechua then in Spanish , or Castellano as he called it , stopping to emphasise his points with a jabbing , rhetorical ‘ eh-eh ? ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It can expect to pick up a lot of support both from mainstream Solidarity and from the squabbling peasants ' parties . |
| 14 | A package eventually announced on Aug. 29 covered only volunteer medical teams and transport support , as well as finance for aid to affected countries and for refugee relief ( Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama , touring the region , having given assurances of support particularly to Jordan on Aug. 21 and to Egypt on Aug. 22 ) . |
| 15 | While the Constitutional Court was ruling against him in Moscow , the Russian leader received a ringing declaration of support yesterday in Washington . |
| 16 | A second point , raised by Brown and his colleagues ( 1986c ) concerned the decision by Henderson to analyse the role of support only for those women completely free from any psychiatric symptoms . |
| 17 | In the development of studies of change particularly by biogeographers , increasing interdisciplinary cooperation and a greatly expanded range of techniques are very evident . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Elizabeth brings with her the experience of working through periods of change both with ILEA and London Guildhall which recently made the transition from polytechnic to university status . |
| 20 | These are , first ( as I have mentioned in chapter 1 ) , a tendency to focus on patterns of change alone with little or no attention to stable patterns of language through time ; second , a tendency to unidimensionality , that is , an inclination to think of the history of a language as the history of a single homogeneous variety and of sound-changes as proceeding in straight lines ; and third , as noted in chapter 2 , a tendency to impose theoretical and ideological orthodoxies on ( sometimes rather sparse ) data that might often be open to alternative kinds of interpretation . |
| 21 | The varied audiovisual possibilities of videodisc together with fast , random access of information and ready availability of the necessary hardware , makes it an ideal means of offering a fast , friendly information resource for such people as customers in shops , visitors to museums , travellers at airports , and tourists in foreign cities . |
| 22 | He felt Dashwood 's index finger inside his mouth , pushing the slippery piece of skin further into the moist orifice . |
| 23 | As she caught the jagged edges of skin together with as delicate a stitch as she could — the patient was a young woman , and a scar was the last thing she would want — Shelley said , ‘ That roundabout is terribly dangerous . |
| 24 | Babies are conceived for a variety of reasons apart from basic urges — some over a wayward partner who shows signs of straying from the fold ; in competition with a sister who has recently conceived or in determination to produce the first grandchild . |
| 25 | At the same time , ICI is actively engaged in the recovery and recycling of products already in the market . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Unfortunately however , current catalysts mostly give a mix of products often including hydrocarbons . |
| 29 | Flecks of sunshine dappling fissured bark are a reminder of summers past during the tree 's slow progress to maturity . |
| 30 | It will be reviving memories of summers past by transmitting ball-by-ball coverage of the Refuge Assurance Sunday League . |