Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] [noun pl] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make a profit , drug dealers sell you short measures or mix all sorts of dangerous materials in with drugs to give them a bigger share of the profits or to finance their own drug habits . |
| 2 | cos I said , oh we 're having all sorts of different cuttings off from |
| 3 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 4 | First , neither the development of the ‘ visible hand ’ in coordinating ‘ vertical ’ flows from the extraction of raw materials through to final sales , nor the rise of the diversified corporation carrying out a planned allocation of resources between different product divisions , abolishes competition between capitalist enterprises . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've got a ring of anti-aircraft guns all round them . |
| 6 | We suggest your readership would be better served by some honest and balanced reporting of real issues instead of trying to conjure up imaginary conflict to act as a smokescreen for what is really happening in Wear Valley under the present Liberal administration . |
| 7 | ‘ The picture that emerges from our review of radioactive waste management is in many ways a disquieting one , ’ the Commission noted with cautious understatement , ‘ indicating insufficient appreciation of long-term requirements either by government departments or other organizations concerned . ’ |
| 8 | Second , there was the loss of certain responsibilities either to central government departments or to the regional structure of nationalised industries or services . |
| 9 | All-party talks on the future of Northern Ireland , initiated by Peter Brooke , the UK Northern Ireland Secretary [ see p. 38156 ] , which were due to start on May 7 , were delayed as a result of procedural disputes mainly concerning the venue and chairing of the second strand of discussions . |
| 10 | On all courses we include a programme of extra-curricular activities either of a tourist nature or professionally orientated . |
| 11 | You have to be able to control every aspect of production , be able to trace every batch of raw materials right through your process and hold comprehensive records of production , sometimes for years afterwards . |
| 12 | Nevertheless the HMI secondary survey expressed some disquiet at the complexity of option schemes and the resulting individual curricula so generated , in addition to their general concern about the extent of the ‘ core ’ ( too many pupils were discontinuing study of important subjects well before the end of their schooling ) . |
| 13 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 14 | For the size of the island , Madeira must have one of the highest concentrations of five-star hotels anywhere in the world . |
| 15 | So we are encouraged , instead , to go out on the town with our peers from other Mephistco departments , for the betterment of internal relations back at base . |
| 16 | Dowland 's Danish patron , Christian IV , sent musicians to study in Italy and two Danes , Hans Nielsen ( c. 1580–after 1620 ) and Mogens Pedersen ( c. 1585–1623 ) , worked in Venice with Giovanni Gabrieli and published books of five-part madrigals there in 1606 and 1608 . |
| 17 | Open records should lead to better record keeping in the primary sector and will give further support to the general practice of consulting parents early about learning or behavioural problems . |
| 18 | Sometimes it 's as late as 1600 , which creates a log-jam of toppled novices somewhere down wind . |
| 19 | Late in 1743 a messenger was sent to alert James in Rome , and at dawn on 9 January 1744 Charles left the Palazzo Muti in Rome with his brother Henry , who was to serve as a decoy , on the pretence of a hunting trip , but made off to the north , leaving Henry to send off to Rome presents of wild geese supposedly from Charles . |
| 20 | annual increases that some irresponsible Labour-controlled councils were imposing and which had the sole effect of driving businesses out of many of our major inner-city centres . |
| 21 | His firm commitment to flexibilIty in the education of deaf people contributed significantly to the surging emancipation of deaf children everywhere from the yoke of generations of denial . |
| 22 | Incidentally , the twelve signs of the zodiac did not appear in Egypt until the Hellenistic period , nor is there any trace of astrological ideas there before then . |
| 23 | What about the troublesome matter of subtitles and the encoding of multilingual versions on to the CD videos ? |
| 24 | A student teacher , during dinner time , asked a boy , Nicky Wragg , to take the teacher 's dinner tray of dirty dishes back to the kitchen hatch for him . |
| 25 | Robyn breathed a weary sigh of relief , and threw the carrier of wet clothes on to the floor . |
| 26 | His American tour kicked off on day one at the Tournament of Champions in Southern California and has taken him to the two major Pro-Ams — the Bob Hope and the Crosby ( aforementioned Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ) — a trio of Florida events — Doral , the Honda Classic and the Players ' Championship — as well as The Masters , the Colonial , the Memorial , the season-ending Nabisco Championship and a slew of less-hallowed events in between . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the various commitments by the nuclear powers , made in connection with the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty , not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states , undoubtedly have the effect of limiting the freedom of action of nuclear powers even during an armed conflict ( Goldblat and Lodgaard , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | If general opinion favours Lothar , and if you are in a position of influence with him , please do n't forget us , and drive the wicked designs of bad men away from us , as far as you can . " |
| 29 | He was one of those who saw the possibilities opened up by the cheaper paper , and the coming of machine-made cases instead of hand bookbindings , of about 1830 . |
| 30 | ‘ I know this is a solution favoured by many farmers but the EC Commission would not allow us to ignore the entitlement of male calves out of dairy cows , ’ said the ministry specialist . |