Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] that [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion . |
| 2 | So I have discovered reserves of strength that I never knew I had . ’ |
| 3 | The completion of the Group 's work represents a considerable achievement , and it is on the basis of the Group 's advice on attainment targets and programmes of study that we now make jointly our formal proposals for key stages 2 to 4 in accordance with the provisions laid down in the Education Reform Act . |
| 4 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 5 | If continued , you may enter the third phase in which you are having to draw on resources that are actually necessary to support the level of competence that you normally can display . |
| 6 | In framing the warranties , the acquirer and its solicitors should have regard to the level of disclosure that they actually want . |
| 7 | While regrettable , this will enable us to maintain the collections and improve the level of service that we currently offer . |
| 8 | While this downswing will not be as sharp as the previous downturn ( in 1979-81 ) , not least given the very much lower level of inflation that we now have , a dull 1989 is bound to be followed by a difficult 1990 . ’ |
| 9 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 10 | So I am proposing with him to er undertake a fairly simple but comprehensive business of reading the bass clef , using the left hand , and introducing it into the kind of music that he already plays , and at the same time getting him to play other music as well , which he seems to be very happy . |
| 11 | The kind of attention that we usually associate with love or hate , and at the same time an acute awareness of limits , of closed worlds , of helplessness , of traps of unsatisfiable longing — the sort of awareness that we associate rather with pity or fear . |
| 12 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 13 | If you have a child who appears to show a talent at one thing , then of course it 's natural to let the child do what it enjoys doing , but that might be the very moment for saying well what is this child not talented at and ensuring that this child gets some experience of the kind of world that it not part of its own talents , so I would feel , from my own point of view and as a psychologist , that if you have a child who is very talented in mathematics , then fine , it 's going to be quite good at mathematics one would assume , now 's the time to say well is it as equally talented in music ? |
| 14 | But I think this is the kind of thing that we really need . |
| 15 | This is the kind of thing that we really ought to be addressing because this actually addresses the safety of people in this county , not only the safety of people , this addresses the safety of property as well and there 's no disagreement about the fact that this enormous development that 's happened over the last few years in an area where you 've got a regular traffic snarl-ups mean that you have got a potential disaster there on your hands and we 're jolly lucky we have n't any more serious incidents than we 've had already and so I can see no reason why these two mo these two amendments should n't both happily be accepted though I 'm very cynical about the number of times we 've spent the airport money already and sooner or later we 've obviously got to actually seriously address that but the important thing is that we do all take it seriously and it seems that we all do now take it seriously . |
| 16 | Threading her way as diligently as she could through the mass of humanity , it was with a sigh of relief that she eventually found herself back in the vast City Hall square . |
| 17 | Lane has breathed a sigh of relief that he therefore can not be caught this week , for Mark James ( 5th ) is his closest rival present and he is almost £75,000 points behind . |
| 18 | What she did n't like , and what very seriously worried her , was the way , after long moments of giving her a cold-eyed stare , Naylor Massingham should suddenly look at her with such a degree of pleasantness that she just knew she was n't going to like what was going through his brain . |
| 19 | Amid such vibrant colour , the daily sorties into the collapsing , crowded streets near the cemetery become a source of such pleasure that it is not without a degree of reluctance that we finally throw our burdens onto a lorry bound for Sorata . |
| 20 | They have suffered a terrible ordeal , and it is my sincere hope that they will find the peace of mind that they so richly deserve . |
| 21 | But even as she began to shake her head , she heard her own voice accepting the invitation , felt a ridiculous little spurt of pleasure that he even wanted to be with her . |
| 22 | More often than not , it was accompanied by the sort of halo that I once put around others ' heads , and now often wear myself . |
| 23 | It is largely thanks to this one moment of history that there currently exists an unbroken line of Spanish-speaking nations through 90° of latitude from Tijuana in northern Mexico to Punta Arenas in southern Chile . |
| 24 | It is to this private right of action that we now turn . |
| 25 | It was n't until the final two weeks of term that it really hit me that I was actually going to have to go . |
| 26 | On the walls were small pieces of wood that I later learned were the sculptures of one of Signe 's ex-boyfriends . |
| 27 | His notebooks tell a rather more complex story , however , and it was only after several years of work that he eventually put together the idea of natural selection . |
| 28 | Our body is very resilient and it is only after years and years of mistreatment that it finally says , ‘ I ca n't stand this any more . ‘ |
| 29 | To equate the will of the people with the will of the majority may often be a justifiable piece of political shorthand ; but those in a minority , whether it be on a particular issue or in a more long-term and fundamental way , are always entitled to remind the rest of society that they too are part of " the people " . |
| 30 | To most of us , guitar strings are like teeth — a constant factor of life that you completely ignore until ( a ) they break or ( b ) they get so grungy and horrible that you simply have to do something about it . |