Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , together with the interim dividend of 2.3 pence per share paid on 5 October 1992 , would make a total for the year of 3.3 pence per share [ 1991 8.5 pence ] . |
| 2 | They did n't believe in the magic spell literally , of course , but they had had their experience of telepathic closeness at that time of the month . |
| 3 | Against all this the ESP addicts will retort that there is one feat performed by some cats that requires an acceptance of telepathic communication between human owner and lost feline . |
| 4 | Teale damaged knee ligaments against Spurs on Saturday which will bring an end to an unbroken run of 70 matches in the first team . |
| 5 | In 1821 Neill MacEachern & Co. made 6798 gallons of 70 proof at Daill . |
| 6 | She is in a wheelchair and must weigh 18–20 stones , have at least a 54-inch chest and upwards of 70 inches around a massive stomach hernia . |
| 7 | Here it proved a network of veins including the powerful Belman 's Hole Vein , the result being a rich and continuous course of ore — The Californian Bunch — all the way down from surface to 10 fathoms below its random … not much short of 70 fathoms in all . |
| 8 | Our current estimate of 70 cases per million population per year is certainly the minimum for the reasons described . |
| 9 | Butler and Patterson will then manage a team of 70 staff for a clientele of 1,500 . |
| 10 | They found positive results in 21 of 70 children with diarrhoea . |
| 11 | Between 1984 and 1988 , the period examined in the report , a yearly average of 70 children with English as a second language were in special needs education . |
| 12 | Between 1984 and 1988 , the period examined in the report , a yearly average of 70 children with English as a second language were in special needs education . |
| 13 | A gas leak on an unmanned North Sea platform which led to the evacuation of 70 workers from a nearby drilling rig was successfully sealed . |
| 14 | By Dec. 17 , 66 out of 70 pits in Silesia had ceased working . |
| 15 | The arrogance of Bolshevik-inspired youth towards the patriarchal rural community also transpires from other criticisms directed against younger visitors . |
| 16 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 17 | Here he uses a telling quotation : ‘ Evolution is the root of atheism , of communism , nazism , behaviorism , racism , economic imperialism , militarism , libertinism , anarchism and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice . ’ |
| 18 | If the frequency difference between half-power points on the resonance curve is then it can be shown that , for small loss , the loss factor The vibrating reed method may therefore be used to plot the loss-factor/ temperature " spectrum " ( although for precise work the change of resonant frequency with temperature needs to be compensated for by , for example , time-temperature superposition . |
| 19 | Cheltenham is a town of spacious elegance from sweeping terraces and broad avenues bordered by trees and gardens galore . |
| 20 | Again a new fleet for 1990 , offering a stylish combination of spacious comfort with exciting sailing performance . |
| 21 | The centrality of hierarchical institutions in this field ( and its closeness to the field of power ) means that collective struggles will be between classes of ‘ priests ’ safely ensconced in institutions . |
| 22 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 23 | It provides object-linking and graphical displays of hierarchical structures like the thesaurus and tool boxes . |
| 24 | For Naville , given his Marxist theoretical perspective , this visible autonomy sweeps aside the veil and reveals the nature of the existing patterns of hierarchical organisation in their true light — as patterns that are socially , and not technologically , determined . |
| 25 | This would imply at least that the early fragment of language poses the problem of hierarchical analysis in a reasonably pure form . |
| 26 | The structural lacuna in the intentional scenario is , I am suggesting , to be filled by something like Sampson 's account of the evolution of hierarchical arrangements of stable sub-assemblies . |
| 27 | In doing this it has also extended the role of hierarchical coordination in the overall process of running the country . |
| 28 | Let me illustrate this pattern of hierarchical layering with the case of two divisions of Corporation X , which has 32,000 employees and annual sales of $7 billion . |
| 29 | Marianne Farningham , religious journalist , learnt her faith from a papermaker Baptist grandfather , ‘ a preacher of great force ’ , who would sit ‘ in our kitchen , talking with some friend , each smoking a long clay pipe , and with a glass of home-brewed beer on the table ’ , debating ‘ on high themes , of Calvinistic doctrine and the heresies of Arminianism . ’ |
| 30 | David rose through the ranks from education officer to acting director of technical education during his years in Northern Rhodesia , but some years after the country gained independence he made the decision to leave . |