Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] of [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps we should conduct annual examinations from an early age to be sure that we do as little of this sort of damage as possible ? |
| 2 | Until 1983 the District Audit Service carried out most of this work in England and Wales with the balance being audited by commercial auditors approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 3 | But the atmosphere then was too cool for much of that sort of talk . |
| 4 | Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 . |
| 5 | It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff . |
| 6 | In the study of football fans we have access to the manifestations of action on and around the ground and even a permanent record of some of this action in the form of video and audio recordings . |
| 7 | Okay you , I mean is any of this of any use to you ? |
| 8 | There is thus a contradiction between the forces of production , in particular the labour power of the workers which produces wealth , and the relations of production which involve the appropriation of much of that wealth by the capitalists . |
| 9 | As Cyprus is a Commonwealth country and we are one of the guarantor powers for that island , how does the Prime Minister justify the ongoing occupation of much of that island by the Turkish army ? |
| 10 | But one of the striking lessons of much of social theory over the last 30 years ( picked out in Chapter 4 ) is that science — the apparently supreme epitome of rationality turns out to exhibit various kinds of non-rationality . |
| 11 | ‘ Giving in ’ to prevent ‘ giving more ’ , which has been in reality the basis of much of British diplomacy in Europe , will need to be replaced by a position which says , ‘ Above the line anything goes ; below it we walk away . ’ |
| 12 | In the course of a life-time , so many facts and sense inhibitions impinge upon our minds , that our brains have become selective , and we 're unconscious of much of this happening around us . |
| 13 | The focus of much of this reporting of ‘ background ’ is sex . |
| 14 | Fracastorius , in whose poem Syphilis , the shepherd , was cured by guaiacum , endorsed the product and it was all the rage until Von Hutten died at the age of 35 of late syphilis in spite of his alleged cure . |
| 15 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |
| 16 | They were mounted through perforations to hang from wooden frames , singly as gongs and in sets of sixteen of graduated thickness for chimes . |
| 17 | These usually contain something along the lines of ten of each value for a particular type of component . |
| 18 | We simply want to emphasize that the medical indications for the need of more of this substance in our diets are strong and impressive . |
| 19 | This year 's first quarter sales are still below those of last year in the UK , says David Stephens , Savage 's financial director , and there is no sign of a pick-up . |
| 20 | The second died of one of that class of terrible diseases which are the invariable consequences of habitual drinking ; and the third of apoplexy . |
| 21 | Some survived as works cars and snow ploughs , making possible the preservation of one of each type in working museums today , as seen on these pages . |
| 22 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 23 | While being evaluated for dysphagia he developed symptoms of intestinal of intestinal obstruction with severe vomiting , caused by a large tumour in the sigmoid colon . |
| 24 | He was lying down now and his face shone palely out of the gloom of the lower bunk like that of some animal in its hole . |
| 25 | The same moral principle and reasoning lie behind much of contemporary protest against the manufacture , possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons . |
| 26 | I happen to think that behind much of that flamboyance in his earlier years there was a fund of timidity and reticence . |
| 27 | So we for instance will enable you to use decision support tools against any of that information in a seamless manner . |
| 28 | Okay what what do you think now you 're you 're you 're you 're a hairdresser of some standing in London , why do you think that men get so hung up about all of this kind of hair ? |
| 29 | The professor had treated this book with proper severity , and Himmler wanted me to dispose once and for all of this type of scientific mischief-making . |
| 30 | Moreover , in most respects the pattern of growth was not far out of line with that of early industrialization in western industrialized countries . |