Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such sites suit their conventional styles of building and marketing , and at a time of low demand would improve their cash-flow by capitalising on their extensive land holdings of farm land on the fringe . |
| 2 | YOUR generous coverage of Neil Kinnock and Co 's shindig in York ( Echo January 13 ) was remarkable not only for its front page spread of crusader Kinnock ( a sad caricature of the Express 's Lord Beaverbrook ) , its 100 column inches of fact evasion and 2,000 words of distraction from political reality . |
| 3 | Her National Gallery choices of pictures were examples of problems posed to artists by colour , and in a video talk she demonstrated how these artistic problems had been solved . |
| 4 | Still , Emily Bronte 's sweeping romance with its powerful lead roles of Heathcliff and Cathy is a natural magnet for the movie business . |
| 5 | She cleared the studio floor into a black plastic bag and boiled water for the cups with their ridged contour lines of coffee . |
| 6 | Her confident smile glints of Mammon , for money is her central theme , closely followed by class ; money for the American market , class ( and some money ) for the English . |
| 7 | Although some 30 million miles further away from the Sun than Mercury , its heat-retaining surface gases of carbon , oxygen and sulphur make the surface temperatures some 80°C hotter . |
| 8 | It may take a long time discussing the parents ' child-rearing philosophy and even discussing their own childhood experiences of discipline to unearth the cause of these deep-seated feelings . |
| 9 | Fig. 1.2 shows the outline of the systems design process in a way which emphasises the parallel roles of the engineer and the ergonomist concerned respectively with the design of the hardware and the personnel sub-systems and their common design problems of allocation of function and interface design . |
| 10 | Two weeks before the Department of Education publishes its nationwide league tables of school results , the Daily Post has compiled its own figures , with half of all schools in the region agreeing to participate . |
| 11 | I am trailing them along the line of their tea-breaks and their modest working lunches of packet soup followed by something you eat with mustard . |
| 12 | Above the fireplace a layer of furry soot clung to the under-surface of the beams : on their upper surface flakes of chaff , from the autumn threshing on the roof , had lodged themselves in pockets , and as she swept , the black and yellow particles cascaded to the ground , then floated up on a cloud of swirling dust . |
| 13 | Following Fidel Castro 's seizure of power , Kennedy failed to keep a gung-ho CIA in check , which proceeded with its ill-conceived invasion plans of Cuba . |
| 14 | Thirdly , because the overall intake has been increased and the average blood ionic fluoride level of the population raised , individuals who ingest submilligram doses of fluoride will run a greater risk of their blood ionic fluoride concentrations peaking to above the threshold level that can cause dental fluorosis or other ill-effects . |
| 15 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 16 | Thrasher ( 1927 ) , whom we encountered in Chapter 3 as one of the founders of a control perspective , borrowed Thomas 's ( 1923 ) speculations as the basis of his universal childhood needs of security , response , recognition and desire for new experiences . |
| 17 | Dr Griffiths spoke first and showed us some of his own cine films of steam runs mainly in the 1970s . |
| 18 | BEFORE THE END of his mammoth production Birds of Europe and his Monograph of Toucans ever came into view , Gould began planning his next major project . |
| 19 | ( As an aside , Stan Gooch , in his 1989 book Cities of Dreams , presents the idea that Neanderthal Man — or , in his context , Neanderthal Woman — created a civilization as complex as ours but based on thoughts rather than on artefacts . |
| 20 | It may indeed be exaggerated by our traditional dialectic habits of clash and argument , as I have suggested elsewhere in this book , but it does not arise from them . |
| 21 | In the first place he draws our attention to the fact that not all our desires are for our own future states of affairs , desires can be impersonal . |
| 22 | We have budget accommodation to suit couples , families and groups in our modern student halls of residence . |
| 23 | Our strategy is straightforward : we will continue to concentrate on our two core businesses of spirits and beers and to benefit from this clear focus . |